System.IFormatProvider
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System.IFormatProvider is a .NET interface that supplies culture-specific formatting information for converting values to and from their string representations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| System.IFormatProvider canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7897296 — 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: System.IFormatProvider Context triple: [System, containsType, System.IFormatProvider]
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A.
Common Language Infrastructure
Common Language Infrastructure is an open specification developed by Microsoft that defines a language-independent runtime environment for executing and managing code across multiple programming languages and platforms.
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B.
java.text
java.text is a Java standard library package that provides classes and interfaces for formatting and parsing text, dates, numbers, and messages in a locale-sensitive manner.
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C.
System.IO
System.IO is a .NET namespace that provides types for reading and writing data to streams, files, and directories.
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D.
System.Reflection
System.Reflection is a .NET namespace that provides types and APIs for inspecting and interacting with metadata about assemblies, modules, and types at runtime.
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E.
Common Type System
The Common Type System is a core component of the .NET architecture that defines how data types are declared, used, and managed across different .NET languages to ensure interoperability and type safety.
- 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: System.IFormatProvider Target entity description: System.IFormatProvider is a .NET interface that supplies culture-specific formatting information for converting values to and from their string representations.
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A.
Common Language Infrastructure
Common Language Infrastructure is an open specification developed by Microsoft that defines a language-independent runtime environment for executing and managing code across multiple programming languages and platforms.
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B.
java.text
java.text is a Java standard library package that provides classes and interfaces for formatting and parsing text, dates, numbers, and messages in a locale-sensitive manner.
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C.
System.IO
System.IO is a .NET namespace that provides types for reading and writing data to streams, files, and directories.
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D.
System.Reflection
System.Reflection is a .NET namespace that provides types and APIs for inspecting and interacting with metadata about assemblies, modules, and types at runtime.
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E.
Common Type System
The Common Type System is a core component of the .NET architecture that defines how data types are declared, used, and managed across different .NET languages to ensure interoperability and type safety.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
.NET interface
ⓘ
interface ⓘ |
| assembly |
System.Runtime.dll
ⓘ
mscorlib.dll ⓘ |
| bclComponent | true ⓘ |
| category | formatting API ⓘ |
| CLSCompliant | true ⓘ |
| definedInLanguage |
C#
ⓘ
linked to:
C# programming language
VB.NET ⓘ
linked to:
Visual Basic .NET
|
| designPattern | strategy pattern ⓘ |
| implementedBy |
System.Globalization.CultureInfo
ⓘ
System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo ⓘ System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo ⓘ custom user-defined format provider types ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
.NET Framework 1.0
ⓘ
linked to:
.NET Framework
|
| isAbstractMemberSet | true ⓘ |
| member | GetFormat(Type formatType) ⓘ |
| methodParameterType | System.Type ⓘ |
| methodReturnType | System.Object ⓘ |
| namespace | System ⓘ |
| platform |
.NET 5+
ⓘ
.NET Core ⓘ .NET Framework ⓘ Mono ⓘ Unity .NET profile ⓘ
linked to:
.NET (via Mono)
Xamarin ⓘ |
| purpose |
supplies culture-specific formatting information
ⓘ
supports converting values to string representations ⓘ supports parsing strings to values ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
System.Globalization.CultureInfo
ⓘ
System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo ⓘ System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo ⓘ |
| threadSafety | depends on implementation ⓘ |
| usedBy |
System.Console.WriteLine
ⓘ
linked to:
System.Console
System.Convert.ToString ⓘ
linked to:
System.Convert
System.DateTime.ToString ⓘ System.Decimal.ToString ⓘ System.Double.ToString ⓘ System.Int32.ToString ⓘ System.Parse methods ⓘ System.String.Format ⓘ System.StringBuilder.AppendFormat ⓘ |
| usedFor |
culture-specific date and time formatting
ⓘ
culture-specific number formatting ⓘ custom formatting of application-specific types ⓘ |
| visibility | public ⓘ |
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: System.IFormatProvider Description of subject: System.IFormatProvider is a .NET interface that supplies culture-specific formatting information for converting values to and from their string representations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.