CString
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CString is a widely used MFC C++ class that provides convenient, high-level manipulation and management of character strings in Windows applications.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CString canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9899958 — 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: CString Context triple: [Microsoft Foundation Classes, notableClass, CString]
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A.
NSString
NSString is an Objective-C class representing immutable Unicode strings, widely used as the primary string type in Apple’s Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks.
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B.
C-text
C-text is one of the principal textual versions of the Middle English allegorical poem *Piers Plowman*, representing a distinct editorial and manuscript tradition within its complex transmission history.
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C.
CIL
CIL is the standard scholarly abbreviation for the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, the comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions.
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D.
CIL
CIL is the abbreviation for the Committee on Import Licensing, a World Trade Organization body that oversees and reviews members’ import licensing procedures to ensure they are transparent and consistent with WTO rules.
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E.
STR
STR is the three-letter IATA airport code for Stuttgart Airport, the international airport serving Stuttgart, Germany.
- 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: CString Target entity description: CString is a widely used MFC C++ class that provides convenient, high-level manipulation and management of character strings in Windows applications.
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A.
NSString
NSString is an Objective-C class representing immutable Unicode strings, widely used as the primary string type in Apple’s Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks.
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B.
C-text
C-text is one of the principal textual versions of the Middle English allegorical poem *Piers Plowman*, representing a distinct editorial and manuscript tradition within its complex transmission history.
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C.
CIL
CIL is the standard scholarly abbreviation for the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, the comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions.
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D.
CIL
CIL is the abbreviation for the Committee on Import Licensing, a World Trade Organization body that oversees and reviews members’ import licensing procedures to ensure they are transparent and consistent with WTO rules.
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E.
CIL
CIL is the low-level, platform-independent bytecode language used by the .NET framework to represent compiled programs before just-in-time compilation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
C++ class
ⓘ
MFC class ⓘ string class ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf | Character String ⓘ |
| category | string handling ⓘ |
| commonlyUsedWith |
CDialog
ⓘ
CWnd ⓘ resource strings ⓘ |
| designedFor |
character string management
ⓘ
high-level string manipulation ⓘ |
| developedBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| documentationURL | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/mfc/reference/cstring-class ⓘ |
| headerFile |
afx.h
ⓘ
afxstr.h ⓘ |
| interoperatesWith |
LPCSTR
ⓘ
LPCTSTR ⓘ LPCWSTR ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
MFC 3.0
ⓘ
linked to:
Microsoft Foundation Classes
|
| memoryManagement | automatic ⓘ |
| partOf |
Microsoft Foundation Class Library
ⓘ
linked to:
Microsoft Foundation Classes
|
| platform |
Win32
ⓘ
linked to:
Win32 API
|
| providesMethod |
Delete
ⓘ
Empty ⓘ Find ⓘ Format ⓘ FormatV ⓘ GetLength ⓘ Insert ⓘ IsEmpty ⓘ Left ⓘ LoadString ⓘ MakeLower ⓘ MakeUpper ⓘ Mid ⓘ Replace ⓘ ReverseFind ⓘ Right ⓘ Trim ⓘ TrimLeft ⓘ TrimRight ⓘ |
| runsOn |
Microsoft Windows
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
|
| supports |
ANSI strings
ⓘ
TCHAR-based strings ⓘ Unicode strings ⓘ exception-based error handling ⓘ reference counting (in some MFC versions) ⓘ |
| supportsOperation |
assignment
ⓘ
case conversion ⓘ comparison ⓘ concatenation ⓘ deletion ⓘ formatting ⓘ indexing ⓘ insertion ⓘ search ⓘ substring extraction ⓘ trimming ⓘ |
| supportsOperator |
operator+
ⓘ
operator+= ⓘ operator< ⓘ operator= ⓘ operator== ⓘ operator[] ⓘ |
| usedIn |
C++
ⓘ
MFC applications ⓘ Windows applications ⓘ |
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: CString Description of subject: CString is a widely used MFC C++ class that provides convenient, high-level manipulation and management of character strings in Windows applications.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.