OS/2
E171250
OS/2 is a 32-bit multitasking operating system originally developed by IBM and Microsoft as a successor to MS-DOS, known for its stability and use in business environments in the late 1980s and 1990s.
All labels observed (14)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| OS/2 canonical | 11 |
| ArcaOS | 1 |
| OS/2 1.0 | 1 |
| OS/2 1.1 | 1 |
| OS/2 1.2 | 1 |
| OS/2 1.3 | 1 |
| OS/2 2.0 | 1 |
| OS/2 2.1 | 1 |
| OS/2 DOS box | 1 |
| OS/2 Warp 3 | 1 |
| OS/2 Warp 4 | 1 |
| OS/2 Win-OS/2 subsystem | 1 |
| OS/VS2 | 1 |
| eComStation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1490801 — 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: OS/2 Context triple: [Lotus Development Corporation, operatingSystemTarget, OS/2]
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A.
AmigaOS
AmigaOS is the native multitasking operating system originally developed for Commodore's Amiga personal computers, known for its advanced graphics and multimedia capabilities for its time.
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B.
Windows 95
Windows 95 is a landmark Microsoft operating system released in 1995 that introduced the Start menu, taskbar, and a more user-friendly graphical interface, helping to popularize personal computing.
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C.
Windows NT
Windows NT is a family of Microsoft operating systems designed with a robust, secure, and modular architecture for professional and enterprise use.
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D.
Windows 98
Windows 98 is a consumer-oriented Microsoft operating system from the late 1990s that built on Windows 95 with improved hardware support, a more integrated graphical interface, and bundled web technologies.
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E.
Oberon operating system
The Oberon operating system is a minimalist, modular OS designed by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht to accompany the Oberon programming language and demonstrate principles of simplicity and efficiency in system design.
- 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: OS/2 Target entity description: OS/2 is a 32-bit multitasking operating system originally developed by IBM and Microsoft as a successor to MS-DOS, known for its stability and use in business environments in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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A.
AmigaOS
AmigaOS is the native multitasking operating system originally developed for Commodore's Amiga personal computers, known for its advanced graphics and multimedia capabilities for its time.
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B.
Windows 95
Windows 95 is a landmark Microsoft operating system released in 1995 that introduced the Start menu, taskbar, and a more user-friendly graphical interface, helping to popularize personal computing.
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C.
Windows NT
Windows NT is a family of Microsoft operating systems designed with a robust, secure, and modular architecture for professional and enterprise use.
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D.
Windows 98
Windows 98 is a consumer-oriented Microsoft operating system from the late 1990s that built on Windows 95 with improved hardware support, a more integrated graphical interface, and bundled web technologies.
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E.
Oberon operating system
The Oberon operating system is a minimalist, modular OS designed by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht to accompany the Oberon programming language and demonstrate principles of simplicity and efficiency in system design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
32-bit operating system
ⓘ
multitasking operating system ⓘ operating system ⓘ |
| canRun |
DOS applications
ⓘ
Windows 3.x applications ⓘ |
| codename | Warp ⓘ |
| competedWith |
Windows
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
|
| developedFrom | joint IBM-Microsoft project ⓘ |
| developer |
IBM
ⓘ
Microsoft ⓘ |
| developmentSplitWith | Microsoft ⓘ |
| discontinuationAnnouncedIn | 2000s ⓘ |
| discontinuedBy | IBM ⓘ |
| feature |
Presentation Manager GUI
ⓘ
Workplace Shell desktop environment ⓘ command-line interface ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
OS/2
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
OS/2 DOS box
OS/2 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
OS/2 Win-OS/2 subsystem
|
| hasVersion |
OS/2
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
OS/2 1.0
OS/2 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
OS/2 1.1
OS/2 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
OS/2 1.2
OS/2 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
OS/2 1.3
OS/2 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
OS/2 2.0
OS/2 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
OS/2 2.1
OS/2 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
OS/2 Warp 3
OS/2 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
OS/2 Warp 4
|
| influenced |
OS/2
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
ArcaOS
OS/2 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
eComStation
|
| introducedIn | 1987 ⓘ |
| kernelType | monolithic kernel ⓘ |
| license | proprietary software license ⓘ |
| marketedAs | OS/2 Warp for later versions ⓘ |
| notableFor |
stability
ⓘ
use in business environments ⓘ |
| originallyIntendedAs | successor to MS-DOS ⓘ |
| supportEnded | 2006 ⓘ |
| supports |
FAT file system
ⓘ
HPFS file system ⓘ LAN Server networking ⓘ SMP on some versions ⓘ TCP/IP networking ⓘ multithreading ⓘ preemptive multitasking ⓘ virtual memory ⓘ |
| targetPlatform |
x86
ⓘ
surface form:
Intel x86
|
| timePeriodOfPeakUse | 1990s ⓘ |
| usedIn |
ATMs
ⓘ
banking systems ⓘ point-of-sale systems ⓘ |
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: OS/2 Description of subject: OS/2 is a 32-bit multitasking operating system originally developed by IBM and Microsoft as a successor to MS-DOS, known for its stability and use in business environments in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
OS/2 1.0
this entity surface form:
OS/2 1.1
this entity surface form:
OS/2 1.2
this entity surface form:
OS/2 1.3
this entity surface form:
OS/2 2.0
this entity surface form:
OS/2 2.1
this entity surface form:
OS/2 Warp 3
this entity surface form:
OS/2 Warp 4
this entity surface form:
OS/2 DOS box
this entity surface form:
OS/2 Win-OS/2 subsystem
this entity surface form:
eComStation
this entity surface form:
ArcaOS