Apple Worldwide Developers Conference
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is Apple Inc.’s annual conference where the company unveils new software platforms, tools, and technologies to developers through keynotes and technical sessions.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apple Worldwide Developers Conference canonical | 19 |
| Worldwide Developers Conference | 3 |
| Apple Worldwide Developers Conference series | 2 |
| Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) | 1 |
| WWDC | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1774430 — 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 Context triple: [Carbon (late transitional API), deprecationAnnouncedAt, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference]
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A.
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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B.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2011
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2011 was Apple's annual developer conference where it unveiled major software and cloud initiatives, including the introduction of iOS 5, OS X Lion, and the iCloud service.
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C.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2014
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2014 was Apple's annual developer event where it introduced major software updates and unveiled the Swift programming language.
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D.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2015
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2015 was Apple’s annual developer conference held in 2015, notable for major software announcements including the debut of its streaming service Apple Music.
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E.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2020
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2020 was Apple's first fully virtual WWDC event, notable for major software updates and the landmark transition announcement from Intel processors to custom Apple silicon for Macs.
- 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 Target entity description: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is Apple Inc.’s annual conference where the company unveils new software platforms, tools, and technologies to developers through keynotes and technical sessions.
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A.
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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B.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2011
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2011 was Apple's annual developer conference where it unveiled major software and cloud initiatives, including the introduction of iOS 5, OS X Lion, and the iCloud service.
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C.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2014
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2014 was Apple's annual developer event where it introduced major software updates and unveiled the Swift programming language.
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D.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2015
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2015 was Apple’s annual developer conference held in 2015, notable for major software announcements including the debut of its streaming service Apple Music.
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E.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2020
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2020 was Apple's first fully virtual WWDC event, notable for major software updates and the landmark transition announcement from Intel processors to custom Apple silicon for Macs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple Inc. event
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annual event ⓘ developer conference ⓘ technology conference ⓘ |
| broadcastOn |
Apple Developer app
ⓘ
Apple TV (macOS app) ⓘ
surface form:
Apple TV app
Apple website ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstHeld | 1987 ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Apple developer tools
ⓘ
Apple frameworks ⓘ Apple software platforms ⓘ Swift ⓘ
surface form:
Swift programming language
Xcode ⓘ iOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ tvOS ⓘ visionOS ⓘ watchOS ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Apple Design Awards 2022
ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Design Awards ceremony
design sessions ⓘ developer workshops ⓘ hands-on labs ⓘ keynote address ⓘ technical sessions ⓘ |
| hasOnlineComponent | yes ⓘ |
| mainLanguage | English ⓘ |
| offers |
design guidance
ⓘ
developer labs ⓘ one-on-one consultations with Apple engineers ⓘ sample code ⓘ |
| organizer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| primaryAudience |
Apple platform developers
ⓘ
software developers ⓘ |
| purpose |
announce new Apple software features
ⓘ
educate developers on Apple technologies ⓘ introduce new developer tools ⓘ support app ecosystem growth ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Apple Design Awards 2022
ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Design Awards
Apple Developer Program ⓘ |
| shortName |
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
WWDC
|
| ticketAllocationMethod | lottery system ⓘ |
| ticketType | paid registration ⓘ |
| typicalDuration | five days ⓘ |
| typicalFrequency | annual ⓘ |
| typicalLocation |
San Francisco, California, United States of America
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surface form:
San Francisco, California
San Jose ⓘ
surface form:
San Jose, California
|
| usualMonthHeld | June ⓘ |
| venueHistory |
Moscone Center
ⓘ
San Jose McEnery Convention Center ⓘ |
| wentFullyOnline | 2020 ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is Apple Inc.’s annual conference where the company unveils new software platforms, tools, and technologies to developers through keynotes and technical sessions.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Worldwide Developers Conference
this entity surface form:
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference series
this entity surface form:
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC)
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference
→
shortName
→
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
WWDC
this entity surface form:
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference series
this entity surface form:
Worldwide Developers Conference
this entity surface form:
Worldwide Developers Conference