Disk Utility
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Disk Utility is a built-in macOS application used to manage disks and storage devices, including formatting, partitioning, repairing volumes, and creating disk images.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Disk Utility canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9003162 — 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: Disk Utility Context triple: [macOS Recovery, includesTool, Disk Utility]
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A.
GNOME Disks
GNOME Disks is a GNOME desktop utility for managing disks and partitions, including formatting, mounting, benchmarking, and monitoring storage devices.
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B.
macOS Recovery
macOS Recovery is a built-in recovery environment for Mac computers that lets users reinstall macOS, restore from backups, repair disks, and perform other troubleshooting and security tasks.
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C.
Disk Management (Windows)
Disk Management (Windows) is a built-in Microsoft Windows utility that allows users to create, resize, format, and manage disks, partitions, and virtual drives through a graphical interface.
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D.
Apple Partition Map
Apple Partition Map is a legacy disk partitioning scheme used primarily on classic Macintosh systems and older PowerPC-based Macs to organize data on storage devices.
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E.
MacBadger
MacBadger is a gruff but kind-hearted badger character from Disney’s adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows," where he serves as a responsible guardian and friend to Mr. Toad.
- 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: Disk Utility Target entity description: Disk Utility is a built-in macOS application used to manage disks and storage devices, including formatting, partitioning, repairing volumes, and creating disk images.
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A.
GNOME Disks
GNOME Disks is a GNOME desktop utility for managing disks and partitions, including formatting, mounting, benchmarking, and monitoring storage devices.
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B.
macOS Recovery
macOS Recovery is a built-in recovery environment for Mac computers that lets users reinstall macOS, restore from backups, repair disks, and perform other troubleshooting and security tasks.
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C.
Disk Management (Windows)
Disk Management (Windows) is a built-in Microsoft Windows utility that allows users to create, resize, format, and manage disks, partitions, and virtual drives through a graphical interface.
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D.
Apple Partition Map
Apple Partition Map is a legacy disk partitioning scheme used primarily on classic Macintosh systems and older PowerPC-based Macs to organize data on storage devices.
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E.
MacBadger
MacBadger is a gruff but kind-hearted badger character from Disney’s adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows," where he serves as a responsible guardian and friend to Mr. Toad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
disk management tool
ⓘ
macOS application ⓘ |
| accessibleFrom |
Applications/Utilities folder
ⓘ
macOS Recovery environment ⓘ
linked to:
macOS Recovery
|
| canCreate |
compressed disk images
ⓘ
encrypted disk images ⓘ read-only disk images ⓘ sparse bundle disk images ⓘ sparse disk images ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| firstAppearedIn |
Mac OS X 10.0
ⓘ
linked to:
Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah
|
| hasFeature |
APFS container and volume management
ⓘ
First Aid volume repair ⓘ RAID creation and management (legacy OS X) ⓘ erase free space (legacy OS X) ⓘ partition map editing ⓘ restore from disk image ⓘ |
| includedWith | macOS installation ⓘ |
| license | proprietary software ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
OS X
ⓘ
linked to:
macOS
macOS ⓘ |
| platform |
Apple silicon Macs
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple silicon Mac
Intel-based Macs ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Disk Copy
ⓘ
Drive Setup ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
check S.M.A.R.T. status of drives
ⓘ
create disk images ⓘ erase disks ⓘ format volumes ⓘ manage RAID sets (legacy OS X) ⓘ manage disks and storage devices ⓘ mount and unmount volumes ⓘ partition disks ⓘ repair disk permissions (legacy OS X) ⓘ restore volumes from images ⓘ verify and repair volumes ⓘ |
| replacedBy | APFS-related command-line tools ⓘ |
| supportsDeviceType |
CDs and DVDs (legacy OS X)
ⓘ
Thunderbolt drives ⓘ disk images (.dmg) ⓘ external USB drives ⓘ internal hard drives ⓘ solid-state drives ⓘ |
| supportsEncryption |
AES-128
ⓘ
AES-256 ⓘ
linked to:
AES-256 bit
|
| supportsFileSystem |
APFS
ⓘ
FAT32 ⓘ HFS+ ⓘ
linked to:
HFS Plus
MS-DOS (FAT) ⓘ
linked to:
MS-DOS
NTFS (read-only by default) ⓘ exFAT ⓘ |
| usedFor |
preparing disks for macOS installation
ⓘ
securely erasing data (legacy OS X) ⓘ troubleshooting disk-related issues ⓘ |
| userInterface | graphical user 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: Disk Utility Description of subject: Disk Utility is a built-in macOS application used to manage disks and storage devices, including formatting, partitioning, repairing volumes, and creating disk images.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.