CBCentralManager
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CBCentralManager is the primary CoreBluetooth class used by iOS and macOS apps to manage and coordinate Bluetooth Low Energy connections and device discovery as a central.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CBCentralManager canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5101000 — 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: CBCentralManager Context triple: [CoreBluetooth, keyClass, CBCentralManager]
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A.
CoreBluetooth
CoreBluetooth is an Apple framework that enables apps to communicate with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices for tasks like data exchange and peripheral control.
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B.
Bluetooth SIG
Bluetooth SIG is the industry consortium that oversees the development, standardization, and licensing of Bluetooth wireless technology.
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C.
Core Location
Core Location is an Apple framework that provides location and heading services to apps, enabling them to determine a device’s geographic position and related location data.
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D.
BLE
BLE is the abbreviation for the German Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food, a government authority responsible for implementing agricultural, food, and rural development policies.
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E.
HomeKit framework
HomeKit framework is Apple's software framework that enables iOS apps and Siri to configure, communicate with, and control compatible smart home accessories.
- 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: CBCentralManager Target entity description: CBCentralManager is the primary CoreBluetooth class used by iOS and macOS apps to manage and coordinate Bluetooth Low Energy connections and device discovery as a central.
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A.
CoreBluetooth
CoreBluetooth is an Apple framework that enables apps to communicate with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices for tasks like data exchange and peripheral control.
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B.
Bluetooth SIG
Bluetooth SIG is the industry consortium that oversees the development, standardization, and licensing of Bluetooth wireless technology.
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C.
Core Location
Core Location is an Apple framework that provides location and heading services to apps, enabling them to determine a device’s geographic position and related location data.
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D.
BLE
BLE is the abbreviation for the German Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food, a government authority responsible for implementing agricultural, food, and rural development policies.
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E.
HomeKit framework
HomeKit framework is Apple's software framework that enables iOS apps and Siri to configure, communicate with, and control compatible smart home accessories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
CoreBluetooth class
ⓘ
class ⓘ |
| canConnectTo | CBPeripheral ⓘ |
| canDiscover | CBPeripheral ⓘ |
| category | Bluetooth central role API ⓘ |
| conformsTo | NSObject ⓘ |
| definedInFramework | CoreBluetooth ⓘ |
| hasDelegate | CBCentralManagerDelegate ⓘ |
| hasMethod |
cancelPeripheralConnection:
ⓘ
connectPeripheral:options: ⓘ initWithDelegate:queue: ⓘ initWithDelegate:queue:options: ⓘ retrieveConnectedPeripheralsWithServices: ⓘ retrievePeripheralsWithIdentifiers: ⓘ scanForPeripheralsWithServices:options: ⓘ stopScan ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
delegate
ⓘ
isScanning ⓘ state ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
iOS 5.0
ⓘ
macOS 10.7 ⓘ |
| language | Objective-C ⓘ |
| manages |
BLE connections
ⓘ
BLE device discovery ⓘ |
| monitors | authorization status for Bluetooth ⓘ |
| namespace | CoreBluetooth ⓘ |
| notifiesViaDelegate | CBCentralManagerDelegate methods ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| pattern | delegate-based asynchronous API ⓘ |
| platform |
iOS
ⓘ
macOS ⓘ tvOS ⓘ watchOS ⓘ |
| requires |
Bluetooth authorization
ⓘ
Bluetooth hardware ⓘ |
| role | Bluetooth Low Energy central manager ⓘ |
| stateType | CBManagerState ⓘ |
| supports | Bluetooth Low Energy ⓘ |
| threadingModel | callbacks delivered on specified dispatch queue ⓘ |
| usableFrom | Swift ⓘ |
| usedFor |
canceling peripheral connections
ⓘ
connecting to peripherals ⓘ monitoring Bluetooth state ⓘ retrieving connected peripherals ⓘ retrieving known peripherals ⓘ scanning for peripherals ⓘ |
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: CBCentralManager Description of subject: CBCentralManager is the primary CoreBluetooth class used by iOS and macOS apps to manage and coordinate Bluetooth Low Energy connections and device discovery as a central.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.