Fat Mac
E367521
Fat Mac is the popular nickname for Apple's Macintosh 512K, an early 1980s personal computer notable for its increased memory over the original Macintosh.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fat Mac canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3546258 — 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: Fat Mac Context triple: [Macintosh 512K, alsoKnownAs, Fat Mac]
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A.
Fatman Scoop
Fatman Scoop is an American hype man, rapper, and radio personality best known for his booming voice and energetic club anthems like the hit single "Be Faithful."
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B.
MacPhisto
MacPhisto is a theatrical, devilish alter ego adopted by U2’s Bono during the Zoo TV Tour, used to satirize fame, politics, and media excess.
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C.
Fat Friends
Fat Friends is a British television drama-comedy series that follows the lives, relationships, and body-image struggles of members of a slimming club in Leeds.
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D.
Big Boy
"Big Boy" is the first released song by the Jackson 5, marking the group's recording debut before they rose to international fame with Motown.
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E.
Supermac
Supermac is the popular nickname of Harold Macmillan, the Conservative British Prime Minister who led the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963 during a period of postwar prosperity.
- 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: Fat Mac Target entity description: Fat Mac is the popular nickname for Apple's Macintosh 512K, an early 1980s personal computer notable for its increased memory over the original Macintosh.
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A.
Fatman Scoop
Fatman Scoop is an American hype man, rapper, and radio personality best known for his booming voice and energetic club anthems like the hit single "Be Faithful."
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B.
MacPhisto
MacPhisto is a theatrical, devilish alter ego adopted by U2’s Bono during the Zoo TV Tour, used to satirize fame, politics, and media excess.
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C.
Fat Friends
Fat Friends is a British television drama-comedy series that follows the lives, relationships, and body-image struggles of members of a slimming club in Leeds.
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D.
Big Boy
"Big Boy" is the first released song by the Jackson 5, marking the group's recording debut before they rose to international fame with Motown.
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E.
Supermac
Supermac is the popular nickname of Harold Macmillan, the Conservative British Prime Minister who led the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963 during a period of postwar prosperity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple Macintosh computer
ⓘ
Apple Macintosh computer ⓘ desktop computer ⓘ personal computer ⓘ personal computer ⓘ |
| architecture | Motorola 68000-based architecture ⓘ |
| category | early 1980s personal computer ⓘ |
| color | beige case ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| cpu |
Motorola 68000 family
ⓘ
surface form:
Motorola 68000
|
| cpuClockSpeed | 8 MHz ⓘ |
| displayResolution | 512×342 pixels ⓘ |
| displaySize | 9-inch ⓘ |
| displayType | built-in monochrome CRT ⓘ |
| family |
Apple Macintosh computers
ⓘ
surface form:
Macintosh
|
| floppyDrive | 400 KB 3.5-inch floppy disk drive ⓘ |
| formFactor | all-in-one design ⓘ |
| graphics | bitmapped graphics ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Fat Mac ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | Macintosh 512K ⓘ |
| inputDevice |
keyboard
ⓘ
mouse ⓘ |
| intendedMarket | personal computing ⓘ |
| introducedBy |
Apple Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Computer, Inc.
|
| manufacturer |
Apple Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Computer, Inc.
|
| marketingPosition | enhanced version of the original Macintosh 128K ⓘ |
| memory | 512 KB RAM ⓘ |
| notableFor | increased memory over the original Macintosh 128K ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Macintosh System 2.1
ⓘ
surface form:
Macintosh System Software
System 1 ⓘ System 2 ⓘ System 3 ⓘ System 4 ⓘ |
| platform | Classic Mac OS ⓘ |
| port |
keyboard port
ⓘ
mouse port ⓘ serial port ⓘ |
| predecessor |
original Macintosh 128K
ⓘ
surface form:
Macintosh 128K
|
| releaseDate | September 1984 ⓘ |
| sound | mono speaker ⓘ |
| successor |
Macintosh 512K
ⓘ
surface form:
Macintosh 512Ke
Macintosh Plus ⓘ |
| userInterface | graphical user interface ⓘ |
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: Fat Mac Description of subject: Fat Mac is the popular nickname for Apple's Macintosh 512K, an early 1980s personal computer notable for its increased memory over the original Macintosh.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Macintosh 512K