HPurge
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HPurge is a memory management API function used to mark relocatable memory blocks as purgeable, allowing the system to reclaim their storage when needed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HPurge canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8471620 — 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: HPurge Context triple: [Memory Manager, providesAPI, HPurge]
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A.
Purify
Purify is a software debugging and memory error detection tool originally developed by Pure Software to help developers identify and fix runtime memory issues in their programs.
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B.
The Cleanse
The Cleanse is a 2016 dark comedy–fantasy film about a man who attends a spiritual retreat that uses a bizarre cleansing ritual to purge personal demons, starring Johnny Galecki among its ensemble cast.
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C.
HPD
HPD is New York City’s housing agency responsible for promoting affordable housing, enforcing housing quality standards, and preserving the city’s housing stock.
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D.
Purifications
Purifications is a philosophical poem by the pre-Socratic thinker Empedocles that explores themes of cosmic order, reincarnation, and the purification of the soul.
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E.
HP
HP is a postcode area in the United Kingdom covering High Wycombe and surrounding parts of Buckinghamshire and nearby counties.
- 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: HPurge Target entity description: HPurge is a memory management API function used to mark relocatable memory blocks as purgeable, allowing the system to reclaim their storage when needed.
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A.
Purify
Purify is a software debugging and memory error detection tool originally developed by Pure Software to help developers identify and fix runtime memory issues in their programs.
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B.
The Cleanse
The Cleanse is a 2016 dark comedy–fantasy film about a man who attends a spiritual retreat that uses a bizarre cleansing ritual to purge personal demons, starring Johnny Galecki among its ensemble cast.
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C.
HPD
HPD is New York City’s housing agency responsible for promoting affordable housing, enforcing housing quality standards, and preserving the city’s housing stock.
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D.
Purifications
Purifications is a philosophical poem by the pre-Socratic thinker Empedocles that explores themes of cosmic order, reincarnation, and the purification of the soul.
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E.
HP
HP is the vehicle registration code used on motor vehicles registered in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Classic Mac OS Toolbox routine
ⓘ
Memory management API function ⓘ |
| category | Low-level memory management ⓘ |
| definedIn | Macintosh Memory Manager API ⓘ |
| documentation | Described in Inside Macintosh: Memory ⓘ |
| effect |
Allows system to reclaim storage of a relocatable block
ⓘ
Does not immediately dispose of the block ⓘ Marks a relocatable block as purgeable ⓘ May cause block contents to be discarded when memory is low ⓘ |
| errorHandling | May set memory manager error codes in global variables ⓘ |
| implementedIn |
Macintosh ROM / System software
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple Macintosh ROM
|
| memoryModel | Handle-based relocatable heap ⓘ |
| operatesOn |
Handles
ⓘ
Relocatable memory blocks ⓘ |
| platform |
Classic Mac OS System 7 era
ⓘ
Motorola 68k Macintosh ⓘ
linked to:
68k Macintosh
|
| precondition |
Handle must be valid
ⓘ
Handle must refer to a relocatable block ⓘ |
| purpose | Helps the system manage limited RAM by reclaiming purgeable blocks ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
DisposeHandle
ⓘ
HLock ⓘ HNoPurge ⓘ HUnlock ⓘ SetHandleSize ⓘ |
| scope | Application heap ⓘ |
| sideEffect |
Does not move the block immediately
ⓘ
May change purgeable status of the block ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Classic Mac OS applications written in C
ⓘ
Classic Mac OS applications written in Pascal ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Classic Mac OS
ⓘ
Macintosh Memory Manager ⓘ
linked to:
System 7 (early versions)
|
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: HPurge Description of subject: HPurge is a memory management API function used to mark relocatable memory blocks as purgeable, allowing the system to reclaim their storage when needed.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.