Macintosh Quadra
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The Macintosh Quadra was a line of high-end Apple Macintosh personal computers from the early 1990s, known for using Motorola 68040 processors and targeting professional and power users.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T299948 — 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: Macintosh Quadra Context triple: [Quadra series, branding, Macintosh Quadra]
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A.
Macintosh Plus
Macintosh Plus is an early Apple Macintosh personal computer model, introduced in 1986, notable for its expanded memory, SCSI support, and improved performance over its predecessors.
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B.
Macintosh LC
The Macintosh LC is a low-cost, compact desktop computer introduced by Apple in 1990 as part of its early color-capable Macintosh lineup aimed at home and education markets.
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C.
Macintosh SE
The Macintosh SE is a compact all-in-one personal computer introduced by Apple in 1987, notable for adding an internal expansion slot and improved performance to the classic Macintosh line.
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D.
Macintosh II series
The Macintosh II series is a family of modular, expandable Macintosh computers introduced by Apple in the late 1980s that brought color graphics and greater performance to the Macintosh line.
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E.
Power Macintosh series
The Power Macintosh series is a line of Apple desktop computers that introduced PowerPC processors to the Macintosh platform, offering significantly improved performance over earlier 68k-based models.
- 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: Macintosh Quadra Target entity description: The Macintosh Quadra was a line of high-end Apple Macintosh personal computers from the early 1990s, known for using Motorola 68040 processors and targeting professional and power users.
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A.
Macintosh Plus
Macintosh Plus is an early Apple Macintosh personal computer model, introduced in 1986, notable for its expanded memory, SCSI support, and improved performance over its predecessors.
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B.
Macintosh LC
The Macintosh LC is a low-cost, compact desktop computer introduced by Apple in 1990 as part of its early color-capable Macintosh lineup aimed at home and education markets.
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C.
Macintosh SE
The Macintosh SE is a compact all-in-one personal computer introduced by Apple in 1987, notable for adding an internal expansion slot and improved performance to the classic Macintosh line.
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D.
Macintosh II series
The Macintosh II series is a family of modular, expandable Macintosh computers introduced by Apple in the late 1980s that brought color graphics and greater performance to the Macintosh line.
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E.
Power Macintosh series
The Power Macintosh series is a line of Apple desktop computers that introduced PowerPC processors to the Macintosh platform, offering significantly improved performance over earlier 68k-based models.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple Macintosh line
ⓘ
computer line ⓘ |
| architecture |
Motorola 680x0
ⓘ
linked to:
Motorola 68000 family
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| branding | replaced Macintosh II branding at high end ⓘ |
| busType | NuBus ⓘ |
| category | 68k Macintosh ⓘ |
| coexistedWith |
Macintosh Centris line
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple Macintosh Centris 650
Macintosh LC line ⓘ
linked to:
Macintosh LC
|
| cpuBitWidth | 32-bit ⓘ |
| cpuFamily |
Motorola 68040
ⓘ
linked to:
Motorola 68040 microprocessor
|
| designedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| discontinued | mid-1990s ⓘ |
| era | early 1990s personal computers ⓘ |
| expansion | support for multiple NuBus expansion cards (on higher-end models) ⓘ |
| formFactorOptions |
all-in-one
ⓘ
desktop ⓘ tower ⓘ |
| graphics | built-in 2D graphics acceleration (on many models) ⓘ |
| introduced | 1991 ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Apple Computer, Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple Inc.
|
| marketPosition | top-of-the-line 68k Macintosh series ⓘ |
| marketSegment |
business
ⓘ
education (high-end labs) ⓘ |
| memoryType | SIMM ⓘ |
| networking | built-in Ethernet on many models ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being among the fastest 68k Macs produced by Apple
ⓘ
transitioning Macintosh line to Motorola 68040 processors ⓘ |
| notableModel |
Macintosh Quadra 605
ⓘ
linked to:
Macintosh Quadra
Macintosh Quadra 650 ⓘ
linked to:
Macintosh Quadra
Macintosh Quadra 700 ⓘ
linked to:
Macintosh Quadra
Macintosh Quadra 800 ⓘ
linked to:
Macintosh Quadra
Macintosh Quadra 900 ⓘ
linked to:
Macintosh Quadra
Macintosh Quadra 950 ⓘ
linked to:
Macintosh Quadra
|
| operatingSystem |
Mac OS 7.6
ⓘ
Mac OS 8 ⓘ System 7 ⓘ
linked to:
System 7 (early versions)
|
| osFamily | Classic Mac OS ⓘ |
| platform |
Macintosh
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple Macintosh computers
|
| predecessor | Macintosh II series ⓘ |
| productFamily |
Macintosh
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple Macintosh computers
|
| productLineType | high-end personal computer line ⓘ |
| sound | integrated stereo sound (on many models) ⓘ |
| successor |
Power Macintosh line
ⓘ
linked to:
Power Macintosh series
|
| targetAudience |
power users
ⓘ
professional users ⓘ |
| useCase |
desktop publishing
ⓘ
graphics and design ⓘ scientific and technical computing ⓘ |
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: Macintosh Quadra Description of subject: The Macintosh Quadra was a line of high-end Apple Macintosh personal computers from the early 1990s, known for using Motorola 68040 processors and targeting professional and power users.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
System 7 (early versions)
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Motorola 68040 microprocessor
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