NEXT
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NEXT is the stock ticker symbol for NeXT Inc., the computer company founded by Steve Jobs after he left Apple, known for its influential workstation computers and software.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NEXT canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T364521 — 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: NEXT Context triple: [NeXT Inc., tickerSymbol, NEXT]
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A.
Yet Another Next Generation
Yet Another Next Generation is the full name behind the acronym YANG, a data modeling language widely used to define configuration and state data for network management protocols.
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B.
NE
NE is the common abbreviation for the New England Revolution, a professional Major League Soccer club based in the Greater Boston area.
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C.
NV
NV is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Nevada.
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D.
nde
nde is the ISO 639-2 code for Northern Ndebele, a Bantu language spoken primarily in Zimbabwe.
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E.
NI
NI is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the German federal state of Lower Saxony.
- 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: NEXT Target entity description: NEXT is the stock ticker symbol for NeXT Inc., the computer company founded by Steve Jobs after he left Apple, known for its influential workstation computers and software.
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A.
Yet Another Next Generation
Yet Another Next Generation is the full name behind the acronym YANG, a data modeling language widely used to define configuration and state data for network management protocols.
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B.
NE
NE is the common abbreviation for the New England Revolution, a professional Major League Soccer club based in the Greater Boston area.
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C.
NV
NV is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Nevada.
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D.
nde
nde is the ISO 639-2 code for Northern Ndebele, a Bantu language spoken primarily in Zimbabwe.
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E.
NI
NI is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the German federal state of Lower Saxony.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer company
ⓘ
technology company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| acquisitionCompleted | 1997 ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 1996 ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | approximately 429 million US dollars ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| defunctAfterAcquisitionBy | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Steve Jobs ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1985 ⓘ |
| hardwareArchitecture |
Motorola 68030 microprocessor
ⓘ
surface form:
Motorola 68030
Motorola 68040 microprocessor ⓘ
surface form:
Motorola 68040
|
| hardwareProductLine | NeXT Computer line ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Redwood City, California ⓘ |
| industry |
computer hardware
ⓘ
computer software ⓘ workstation computers ⓘ |
| keyPerson |
Avie Tevanian
ⓘ
Bud Tribble ⓘ Joanna Hoffman ⓘ Steve Jobs ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influencing iOS
ⓘ
influencing macOS ⓘ influential workstation computers ⓘ object-oriented operating system ⓘ |
| logoText |
NeXT Computer line
ⓘ
surface form:
NeXT
|
| notableProduct |
NeXTcube
ⓘ
surface form:
NeXT Computer
NeXTSTEP ⓘ NeXTcube ⓘ NeXTstation ⓘ OPENSTEP ⓘ |
| notableUseCase |
development platform for Tim Berners-Lee’s WorldWideWeb application
ⓘ
development platform for the first World Wide Web browser ⓘ |
| operatingSystemDeveloped |
NeXTSTEP
ⓘ
OPENSTEP ⓘ |
| programmingEnvironmentDeveloped | Objective-C based frameworks ⓘ |
| softwareProductLine |
NeXTSTEP
ⓘ
surface form:
NeXTSTEP operating system
OPENSTEP ⓘ
surface form:
OPENSTEP frameworks
|
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| stockTicker | NEXT self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| successorSoftware |
macOS
ⓘ
surface form:
Mac OS X
iOS ⓘ iPadOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ tvOS ⓘ watchOS ⓘ |
| targetMarket |
business and enterprise
ⓘ
higher education ⓘ software developers ⓘ |
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: NEXT Description of subject: NEXT is the stock ticker symbol for NeXT Inc., the computer company founded by Steve Jobs after he left Apple, known for its influential workstation computers and software.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
NeXT Inc.