Startup Manager
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Startup Manager is a macOS boot utility that lets users choose which available disk or volume to start their Mac from during startup.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Startup Manager canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9003187 — 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: Startup Manager Context triple: [macOS Recovery, relatedTo, Startup Manager]
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A.
Startup.com
Startup.com is a 2001 documentary film that chronicles the rise and fall of the dot-com startup GovWorks during the late-1990s internet boom.
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B.
Startup School
Startup School is Y Combinator’s free online program that provides education, mentorship, and resources to help early-stage founders build and grow their startups.
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C.
StartUp (TV series)
StartUp is a crime drama television series that follows a group of unlikely partners who launch a controversial digital currency startup amid the dangerous world of organized crime and corrupt law enforcement.
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D.
Mission Start-up Support Team
The Mission Start-up Support Team is a specialized unit that helps plan, organize, and rapidly deploy new United Nations peace operations under the Department of Peace Operations.
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E.
LauncherOne
LauncherOne is a small, air-launched orbital rocket developed by Virgin Orbit to deploy lightweight satellites into space from a carrier aircraft.
- 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: Startup Manager Target entity description: Startup Manager is a macOS boot utility that lets users choose which available disk or volume to start their Mac from during startup.
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A.
Startup.com
Startup.com is a 2001 documentary film that chronicles the rise and fall of the dot-com startup GovWorks during the late-1990s internet boom.
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B.
Startup School
Startup School is Y Combinator’s free online program that provides education, mentorship, and resources to help early-stage founders build and grow their startups.
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C.
StartUp (TV series)
StartUp is a crime drama television series that follows a group of unlikely partners who launch a controversial digital currency startup amid the dangerous world of organized crime and corrupt law enforcement.
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D.
Mission Start-up Support Team
The Mission Start-up Support Team is a specialized unit that helps plan, organize, and rapidly deploy new United Nations peace operations under the Department of Peace Operations.
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E.
LauncherOne
LauncherOne is a small, air-launched orbital rocket developed by Virgin Orbit to deploy lightweight satellites into space from a carrier aircraft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
macOS boot utility
ⓘ
system startup tool ⓘ |
| accessMethod | invoked at startup ⓘ |
| availability | available on most modern Mac computers ⓘ |
| category |
boot manager
ⓘ
system utility ⓘ |
| configuration | does not require prior login to macOS ⓘ |
| developedBy | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| function | allows users to choose which available disk or volume to start their Mac from during startup ⓘ |
| includedWith | macOS by default ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Mac OS X
ⓘ
linked to:
macOS
OS X ⓘ
linked to:
macOS
macOS ⓘ |
| persistence |
can change the startup disk for subsequent boots depending on user choice
ⓘ
can change the startup disk for the current boot ⓘ |
| platform | Mac ⓘ |
| purpose |
to facilitate booting from alternative operating systems or installations
ⓘ
to select a startup disk or volume ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Startup Disk preference pane in macOS System Settings
ⓘ
linked to:
macOS System Settings
|
| requires | a Mac with Intel or Apple silicon processor ⓘ |
| scope | operates before macOS loads ⓘ |
| selectionType | allows selection among all detected bootable volumes ⓘ |
| supports |
booting from Thunderbolt drives
ⓘ
booting from USB drives ⓘ booting from external disks ⓘ booting from internal disks ⓘ booting from network volumes when available ⓘ |
| useCase |
booting from a macOS installer volume
ⓘ
booting from a recovery or maintenance volume ⓘ booting from an external backup disk ⓘ booting from another operating system installed on a separate volume ⓘ |
| userInterface | graphical boot volume selection screen ⓘ |
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: Startup Manager Description of subject: Startup Manager is a macOS boot utility that lets users choose which available disk or volume to start their Mac from during startup.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.