Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2002
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2002 was Apple Inc.’s annual developer conference held in 2002, where the company showcased upcoming software technologies and tools for Mac and emerging platforms to its developer community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2002 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12947152 — 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: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2002 Context triple: [Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2003, precededBy, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2002]
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A.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2003
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2003 was Apple's annual developer conference where the company unveiled major new hardware and software technologies, including the transition to the Power Mac G5 era.
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B.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2005
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2005 was Apple's annual developer conference held in 2005, where the company showcased new software technologies and tools for Mac and emerging platforms to its developer community.
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C.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2004
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2004 was Apple Inc.’s annual developer conference held in 2004, where the company showcased upcoming software technologies and tools for Mac and related platforms to its developer community.
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D.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006 was Apple's annual developer conference held in 2006, notable for major Mac hardware and software announcements including the debut of the Mac Pro.
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E.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007 was Apple's annual developer conference where the company showcased major software and hardware updates, including early previews of Mac OS X Leopard and iPhone development technologies.
- 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: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2002 Target entity description: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2002 was Apple Inc.’s annual developer conference held in 2002, where the company showcased upcoming software technologies and tools for Mac and emerging platforms to its developer community.
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A.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2003
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2003 was Apple's annual developer conference where the company unveiled major new hardware and software technologies, including the transition to the Power Mac G5 era.
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B.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2005
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2005 was Apple's annual developer conference held in 2005, where the company showcased new software technologies and tools for Mac and emerging platforms to its developer community.
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C.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2004
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2004 was Apple Inc.’s annual developer conference held in 2004, where the company showcased upcoming software technologies and tools for Mac and related platforms to its developer community.
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D.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006 was Apple's annual developer conference held in 2006, notable for major Mac hardware and software announcements including the debut of the Mac Pro.
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E.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007 was Apple's annual developer conference where the company showcased major software and hardware updates, including early previews of Mac OS X Leopard and iPhone development technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference
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technology conference ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | WWDC 2002 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | San Jose NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| endDate | 2002-05-10 ⓘ |
| features |
Apple engineering presentations
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developer training ⓘ hands-on labs ⓘ technical sessions ⓘ |
| focus |
Apple developer tools
NERFINISHED
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Mac OS X NERFINISHED ⓘ emerging Apple software technologies ⓘ |
| hasKeynoteSpeaker | Steve Jobs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainLanguage | English ⓘ |
| nextEvent | Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2003 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfDays | 5 ⓘ |
| organizer | Apple Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Apple Worldwide Developers Conference series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousEvent | Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2001 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryPlatform | Mac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startDate | 2002-05-06 ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
IT professionals
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Mac developers ⓘ software developers ⓘ |
| theme | transition to Mac OS X ⓘ |
| type | annual developer conference ⓘ |
| venue | San Jose McEnery Convention Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ ⓘ |
| year | 2002 ⓘ |
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: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2002 Description of subject: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2002 was Apple Inc.’s annual developer conference held in 2002, where the company showcased upcoming software technologies and tools for Mac and emerging platforms to its developer community.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2003
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precededBy
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2002
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