Microsoft Build 2017
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Microsoft Build 2017 was Microsoft's annual developer conference where the company unveiled major platform updates and design initiatives, including the introduction of the Fluent Design System.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Build 2017 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9899795 — 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)
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Target entity: Microsoft Build 2017 Context triple: [Fluent Design System, introducedBy, Microsoft Build 2017]
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A.
Surface Hub
Surface Hub is Microsoft's large interactive whiteboard and collaboration device designed for meetings, presentations, and team productivity in business and educational environments.
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B.
Windows Dev Center
Windows Dev Center was Microsoft’s former web portal for developers to manage and publish Windows apps, games, and related services before its functionality was consolidated into Partner Center.
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C.
Microsoft Surface event September 2021
The Microsoft Surface event in September 2021 was a product launch showcase where Microsoft introduced a new generation of Surface devices and accessories, including its flagship creative-focused Surface Laptop Studio.
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D.
Apple WWDC 2017
Apple WWDC 2017 was Apple’s annual developer conference held in June 2017, where the company unveiled major software updates across its platforms and introduced new hardware including the HomePod smart speaker.
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E.
Windows Insider Program
The Windows Insider Program is a Microsoft initiative that lets users test and provide feedback on pre-release Windows builds before they are publicly released.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Microsoft Build 2017 Target entity description: Microsoft Build 2017 was Microsoft's annual developer conference where the company unveiled major platform updates and design initiatives, including the introduction of the Fluent Design System.
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A.
Surface Hub
Surface Hub is Microsoft's large interactive whiteboard and collaboration device designed for meetings, presentations, and team productivity in business and educational environments.
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B.
Windows Dev Center
Windows Dev Center was Microsoft’s former web portal for developers to manage and publish Windows apps, games, and related services before its functionality was consolidated into Partner Center.
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C.
Microsoft Surface event September 2021
The Microsoft Surface event in September 2021 was a product launch showcase where Microsoft introduced a new generation of Surface devices and accessories, including its flagship creative-focused Surface Laptop Studio.
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D.
Apple WWDC 2017
Apple WWDC 2017 was Apple’s annual developer conference held in June 2017, where the company unveiled major software updates across its platforms and introduced new hardware including the HomePod smart speaker.
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E.
Windows Insider Program
The Windows Insider Program is a Microsoft initiative that lets users test and provide feedback on pre-release Windows builds before they are publicly released.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
developer conference
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technology conference ⓘ |
| announced |
.NET Standard 2.0 details
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Azure Batch AI NERFINISHED ⓘ Azure Cosmos DB NERFINISHED ⓘ Azure IoT Edge NERFINISHED ⓘ Bot Framework updates ⓘ Cognitive Services updates ⓘ Cortana improvements ⓘ Fluent Design System NERFINISHED ⓘ Linux support in Windows Subsystem for Linux expansions ⓘ Microsoft Graph enhancements ⓘ Pick Up Where You Left Off cross‑device experiences ⓘ Project Rome cross‑device APIs ⓘ SQL Server on Linux roadmap NERFINISHED ⓘ Story Remix for Photos app NERFINISHED ⓘ UWP tooling improvements ⓘ Visual Studio for Mac general availability ⓘ Windows 10 Fall Creators Update features ⓘ Windows Mixed Reality developer updates ⓘ Windows Store support for more desktop apps via Desktop Bridge ⓘ Windows Timeline feature NERFINISHED ⓘ Xamarin Live Player NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| endDate | 2017-05-12 ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
.NET
NERFINISHED
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Azure NERFINISHED ⓘ Microsoft platforms ⓘ UWP NERFINISHED ⓘ Visual Studio NERFINISHED ⓘ Windows 10 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Microsoft Build 2018 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Microsoft Build 2016 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKeynoteSpeaker |
Satya Nadella
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scott Guthrie NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry Myerson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
artificial intelligence
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cloud computing ⓘ cross‑platform development ⓘ mixed reality ⓘ |
| introduced | Fluent Design System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location |
Seattle
NERFINISHED
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Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainLanguage | English ⓘ |
| organizer | Microsoft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Microsoft Build NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startDate | 2017-05-10 ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
IT professionals
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software developers ⓘ |
| venue | Washington State Convention Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Build 2017 Description of subject: Microsoft Build 2017 was Microsoft's annual developer conference where the company unveiled major platform updates and design initiatives, including the introduction of the Fluent Design System.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.