Microsoft Trident engine
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Microsoft Trident engine is a proprietary web browser layout engine developed by Microsoft and primarily used in Internet Explorer to render web pages.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Internet Explorer engine | 1 |
| Microsoft Trident engine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7895644 — 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 Trident engine Context triple: [360 Secure Browser (Trident mode), basedOn, Microsoft Trident engine]
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A.
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is a discontinued web browser that was once the dominant way to access the web on Windows computers.
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B.
360 Secure Browser (Trident mode)
360 Secure Browser (Trident mode) is a browsing mode of the Chinese web browser 360 Secure Browser that uses Microsoft’s Trident engine to render web pages for compatibility with older Internet Explorer–optimized sites.
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C.
Tencent QQ Browser (legacy Trident mode)
Tencent QQ Browser (legacy Trident mode) is an older version of Tencent’s web browser that relied on Microsoft’s Trident engine to render web pages, similar to Internet Explorer.
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D.
IE
IE is a common abbreviation for the Inland Empire, a metropolitan region in Southern California east of Los Angeles.
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E.
IE
IE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Ireland for international standardization and identification.
- 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 Trident engine Target entity description: Microsoft Trident engine is a proprietary web browser layout engine developed by Microsoft and primarily used in Internet Explorer to render web pages.
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A.
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is a discontinued web browser that was once the dominant way to access the web on Windows computers.
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B.
360 Secure Browser (Trident mode)
360 Secure Browser (Trident mode) is a browsing mode of the Chinese web browser 360 Secure Browser that uses Microsoft’s Trident engine to render web pages for compatibility with older Internet Explorer–optimized sites.
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C.
Tencent QQ Browser (legacy Trident mode)
Tencent QQ Browser (legacy Trident mode) is an older version of Tencent’s web browser that relied on Microsoft’s Trident engine to render web pages, similar to Internet Explorer.
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D.
IE
IE is a common abbreviation for the Inland Empire, a metropolitan region in Southern California east of Los Angeles.
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E.
IE
IE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Ireland for international standardization and identification.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
browser engine
ⓘ
layout engine ⓘ proprietary software ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | MSHTML NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| codename | Trident NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| componentOf |
Internet Explorer 10
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Internet Explorer 11 NERFINISHED ⓘ Internet Explorer 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Internet Explorer 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Internet Explorer 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ Internet Explorer 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ Internet Explorer 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ Internet Explorer 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| fileName | MSHTML.DLL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedInVersionOf | Internet Explorer 4.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| license | proprietary ⓘ |
| notableFor |
deep integration with Windows operating system
ⓘ
historical compatibility issues with web standards ⓘ widespread enterprise intranet use ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Windows
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
|
| platform |
IA-64
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
x64 ⓘ x86 ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
Blink (via Chromium-based Microsoft Edge)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
EdgeHTML NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
ActiveX (proprietary extension)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CSS 1 ⓘ CSS 2.1 (partial) ⓘ DHTML NERFINISHED ⓘ DOM Level 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ DOM Level 2 (partial) ⓘ ECMAScript (JScript implementation) NERFINISHED ⓘ HTML 4.01 ⓘ VBScript (legacy) NERFINISHED ⓘ Vector Markup Language (VML, proprietary) NERFINISHED ⓘ XMLHTTP (basis of AJAX, proprietary origin) ⓘ |
| usedIn |
AOL 9.0 browser
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
AOL Explorer NERFINISHED ⓘ Avant Browser NERFINISHED ⓘ GreenBrowser NERFINISHED ⓘ Internet Explorer NERFINISHED ⓘ Lunascape (Trident mode) NERFINISHED ⓘ MSN Explorer NERFINISHED ⓘ Maxthon (Trident mode) NERFINISHED ⓘ Microsoft Outlook (HTML rendering) NERFINISHED ⓘ Microsoft Outlook Express (HTML rendering) NERFINISHED ⓘ NetCaptor NERFINISHED ⓘ Sleipnir (Trident mode) NERFINISHED ⓘ SlimBrowser NERFINISHED ⓘ Tencent Traveler NERFINISHED ⓘ Windows Explorer (HTML rendering components) NERFINISHED ⓘ Windows Help and Support Center (HTML rendering) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writtenInLanguage | C++ ⓘ |
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 Trident engine Description of subject: Microsoft Trident engine is a proprietary web browser layout engine developed by Microsoft and primarily used in Internet Explorer to render web pages.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Microsoft Internet Explorer engine