Rolodex
E830120
Rolodex is a rotating desktop card index device used to organize and quickly access contact information on individual cards.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rolodex canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9945750 — 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: Rolodex Context triple: [Cardfile, similarTo, Rolodex]
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A.
Cardfile
Cardfile is a simple card-based personal information manager included with early versions of Microsoft Windows for storing and organizing small text notes.
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B.
The Address Book
The Address Book is a conceptual art project and book by French artist Sophie Calle in which she investigates the life of a stranger solely through the contacts listed in his lost address book, exploring themes of privacy, voyeurism, and identity.
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C.
Lotus Organizer
Lotus Organizer is a personal information manager software application known for its organizer-style interface, used for managing calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes.
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D.
Public Address Book
Public Address Book is an alternative name for the Domino Directory, IBM Notes/Domino’s central database for storing user, group, and server information used for mail routing and directory services.
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E.
Directory
The Directory was the five-member executive government that ruled France during the later stages of the French Revolution, between the fall of Robespierre and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
- 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: Rolodex Target entity description: Rolodex is a rotating desktop card index device used to organize and quickly access contact information on individual cards.
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A.
Cardfile
Cardfile is a simple card-based personal information manager included with early versions of Microsoft Windows for storing and organizing small text notes.
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B.
The Address Book
The Address Book is a conceptual art project and book by French artist Sophie Calle in which she investigates the life of a stranger solely through the contacts listed in his lost address book, exploring themes of privacy, voyeurism, and identity.
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C.
Lotus Organizer
Lotus Organizer is a personal information manager software application known for its organizer-style interface, used for managing calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes.
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D.
Public Address Book
Public Address Book is an alternative name for the Domino Directory, IBM Notes/Domino’s central database for storing user, group, and server information used for mail routing and directory services.
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E.
Directory
The Directory was the five-member executive government that ruled France during the later stages of the French Revolution, between the fall of Robespierre and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contact management device
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office equipment ⓘ rotating card file ⓘ |
| brandNameOf | rotating card index device ⓘ |
| hasAlternative |
customer relationship management software
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digital address book ⓘ smartphone contact list ⓘ |
| hasCulturalMeaning |
metaphor for a mental list of contacts
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symbol of pre-digital contact management ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
alphabetical index
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manually rotated wheel ⓘ removable cards ⓘ visible card edges ⓘ |
| hasField |
business
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contact management ⓘ office administration ⓘ |
| hasGenericName |
rotary business card file
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rotary card file ⓘ |
| hasInventor |
Arnold Neustadter
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Hildaur Neilsen ⓘ |
| hasPart |
index tabs
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individual index cards ⓘ metal frame ⓘ rotating spindle ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
organizing contact information
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quick access to contact details ⓘ storing business cards ⓘ |
| hasShape | cylindrical card arrangement ⓘ |
| hasStatus | largely superseded by digital contact managers ⓘ |
| hasTrademarkOwner |
Newell Brands
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Rolodex Corporation ⓘ
linked to:
Rand Kardex Company
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| inception | 1956 ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Zephyr American Corporation ⓘ |
| marketedIn |
Europe
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
worldwide ⓘ |
| notableFor |
physical tangibility of contact records
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quick visual scanning of contacts ⓘ |
| typicalLocation |
office desk
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reception desk ⓘ |
| usedBy |
administrative assistants
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office workers ⓘ salespeople ⓘ |
| usesMaterial |
metal
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paper ⓘ plastic ⓘ |
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: Rolodex Description of subject: Rolodex is a rotating desktop card index device used to organize and quickly access contact information on individual cards.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.