Spotlight search
E41433
Spotlight search is macOS’s built-in search and indexing feature that lets users quickly find files, apps, and information across their system and the web.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spotlight search canonical | 6 |
| Spotlight metadata API | 1 |
| Spotlight system-wide search | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T321722 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spotlight search Context triple: [macOS, supportsFeature, Spotlight search]
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A.
Finder
Finder is the primary file management and desktop navigation application for Apple's Macintosh operating systems, providing users with a graphical interface to access and organize files, folders, and drives.
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B.
BARD Mobile app
The BARD Mobile app is a specialized application that provides accessible audio and braille books and magazines to people who are blind, visually impaired, or print disabled.
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C.
Spotlight
"Spotlight" is an R&B ballad by Jennifer Hudson that showcases her powerful vocals and explores themes of control and emotional struggle in a relationship.
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D.
iDiscover
iDiscover is the online search and discovery platform used to access Cambridge University’s library collections, including books, journals, and electronic resources.
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E.
Periscope
Periscope was a live video streaming mobile app that allowed users to broadcast and watch real-time video from around the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spotlight search Target entity description: Spotlight search is macOS’s built-in search and indexing feature that lets users quickly find files, apps, and information across their system and the web.
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A.
Finder
Finder is the primary file management and desktop navigation application for Apple's Macintosh operating systems, providing users with a graphical interface to access and organize files, folders, and drives.
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B.
BARD Mobile app
The BARD Mobile app is a specialized application that provides accessible audio and braille books and magazines to people who are blind, visually impaired, or print disabled.
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C.
Spotlight
"Spotlight" is an R&B ballad by Jennifer Hudson that showcases her powerful vocals and explores themes of control and emotional struggle in a relationship.
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D.
iDiscover
iDiscover is the online search and discovery platform used to access Cambridge University’s library collections, including books, journals, and electronic resources.
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E.
Periscope
Periscope was a live video streaming mobile app that allowed users to broadcast and watch real-time video from around the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
desktop search feature
ⓘ
macOS feature ⓘ search technology ⓘ |
| canBeRestrictedBy | privacy settings ⓘ |
| canExclude |
specific file types from indexing
ⓘ
specific folders from indexing ⓘ |
| componentOf |
Finder
ⓘ
macOS menu bar ⓘ |
| configurationLocation |
System Preferences (older macOS versions)
ⓘ
linked to:
macOS System Settings
System Settings ⓘ |
| developedBy | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| feature |
currency conversions
ⓘ
direct app launching ⓘ preview search results ⓘ quick calculations ⓘ unit conversions ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Calendar
ⓘ
Contacts ⓘ
linked to:
Google Contacts
Dictionary ⓘ Mail ⓘ Messages ⓘ Safari search suggestions ⓘ Siri Suggestions ⓘ
linked to:
Siri
|
| introducedIn | Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
iOS
ⓘ
iPadOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
search applications
ⓘ
search calendar events ⓘ search contacts ⓘ search definitions ⓘ search documents ⓘ search emails ⓘ search files ⓘ search images ⓘ search messages ⓘ search music ⓘ search system metadata ⓘ search system preferences ⓘ search web results ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Alfred (macOS application)
ⓘ
Siri ⓘ Windows Search ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| storesIndexIn | local disk ⓘ |
| supports |
Boolean operators
ⓘ
metadata-based search filters ⓘ natural language queries ⓘ |
| userInterface |
keyboard shortcut Command-Space
ⓘ
search field in menu bar ⓘ |
| uses |
content indexing
ⓘ
file metadata indexing ⓘ system-wide index ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Spotlight search Description of subject: Spotlight search is macOS’s built-in search and indexing feature that lets users quickly find files, apps, and information across their system and the web.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.