Microsoft Multiplan
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Microsoft Multiplan was an early spreadsheet program from Microsoft, released in the early 1980s as a competitor to VisiCalc and a precursor to Excel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Multiplan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6179088 — 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: Microsoft Multiplan Context triple: [Charles Simonyi, notableProject, Microsoft Multiplan]
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A.
Lotus 1-2-3
Lotus 1-2-3 is a pioneering spreadsheet software program for personal computers that became a dominant business application in the 1980s.
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B.
MS-DOS Executive
MS-DOS Executive is the simple file management and program-launching shell that served as the primary user interface in early versions of Microsoft Windows, notably Windows 1.0.
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C.
Peter Norton Computing
Peter Norton Computing was a software company best known for its Norton Utilities and other PC maintenance tools that helped popularize system optimization and data recovery for early personal computers.
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D.
Micros Systems
Micros Systems was a leading provider of point-of-sale and hospitality management software and hardware solutions for restaurants, hotels, and retail businesses.
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E.
MS-DOS
MS-DOS is a command-line operating system that became the foundational software platform for early IBM-compatible personal computers in the 1980s and early 1990s.
- 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: Microsoft Multiplan Target entity description: Microsoft Multiplan was an early spreadsheet program from Microsoft, released in the early 1980s as a competitor to VisiCalc and a precursor to Excel.
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A.
Lotus 1-2-3
Lotus 1-2-3 is a pioneering spreadsheet software program for personal computers that became a dominant business application in the 1980s.
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B.
MS-DOS Executive
MS-DOS Executive is the simple file management and program-launching shell that served as the primary user interface in early versions of Microsoft Windows, notably Windows 1.0.
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C.
Peter Norton Computing
Peter Norton Computing was a software company best known for its Norton Utilities and other PC maintenance tools that helped popularize system optimization and data recovery for early personal computers.
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D.
Micros Systems
Micros Systems was a leading provider of point-of-sale and hospitality management software and hardware solutions for restaurants, hotels, and retail businesses.
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E.
MS-DOS
MS-DOS is a command-line operating system that became the foundational software platform for early IBM-compatible personal computers in the 1980s and early 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer program
ⓘ
spreadsheet software ⓘ |
| competesWith |
Lotus 1-2-3
ⓘ
VisiCalc ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| distribution | floppy disk ⓘ |
| distributionModel | proprietary software ⓘ |
| feature |
basic charting support
ⓘ
cell-based worksheet ⓘ formula support ⓘ recalculation of cells ⓘ |
| genre | spreadsheet ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
early competitor to VisiCalc
ⓘ
helped establish Microsoft in business software market ⓘ |
| inception | 1982 ⓘ |
| inputMethod | keyboard ⓘ |
| license | proprietary ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being Microsoft’s first spreadsheet program
ⓘ
being a precursor to Microsoft Excel ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Apple II DOS
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple DOS
Apple SOS ⓘ CP/M ⓘ CP/M-86 ⓘ Commodore 64 operating system ⓘ MS-DOS ⓘ MSX-DOS ⓘ TRS-80 TRSDOS ⓘ Xenix ⓘ |
| originallyReleasedFor | CP/M ⓘ |
| platform |
Apple II
ⓘ
Apple III ⓘ CP/M microcomputers ⓘ Commodore 64 ⓘ IBM PC ⓘ MSX ⓘ
linked to:
MSX computers
TRS-80 ⓘ
linked to:
Tandy TRS-80
Xenix systems ⓘ
linked to:
Xenix
|
| portingStrategy | ported to multiple 8-bit and 16-bit microcomputers ⓘ |
| predecessor | none ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
C
ⓘ
assembly language ⓘ |
| publisher | Microsoft ⓘ |
| releasePeriod | early 1980s ⓘ |
| successor |
Microsoft Excel
ⓘ
linked to:
Excel
|
| supports |
basic financial calculations
ⓘ
numeric data ⓘ text labels ⓘ |
| userInterface | text-based 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: Microsoft Multiplan Description of subject: Microsoft Multiplan was an early spreadsheet program from Microsoft, released in the early 1980s as a competitor to VisiCalc and a precursor to Excel.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.