NSMenu
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NSMenu is a fundamental Cocoa class in macOS that manages and displays hierarchical menus and menu items within an application's user interface.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NSMenu canonical | 2 |
| NSMenu class | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11016467 — 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: NSMenu Context triple: [Application Kit, coreClass, NSMenu]
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A.
TMenu
TMenu is a Lazarus Component Library class used to create and manage application menus in Lazarus/Free Pascal GUI programs.
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B.
MatMenu
MatMenu is an Angular Material UI component that provides a configurable, accessible dropdown menu for displaying lists of actions or options.
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C.
Contextual Menus
Contextual Menus are right-click or modifier-click pop-up menus that provide quick access to commands relevant to the item or area currently selected on the screen.
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D.
macOS menu bar
The macOS menu bar is the horizontal system-wide bar at the top of the screen that provides access to app menus, system status icons, and various utilities.
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E.
Apple menu
The Apple menu is a system-wide menu in the classic Mac OS interface that provides quick access to key features, applications, and system utilities.
- 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: NSMenu Target entity description: NSMenu is a fundamental Cocoa class in macOS that manages and displays hierarchical menus and menu items within an application's user interface.
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A.
TMenu
TMenu is a Lazarus Component Library class used to create and manage application menus in Lazarus/Free Pascal GUI programs.
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B.
MatMenu
MatMenu is an Angular Material UI component that provides a configurable, accessible dropdown menu for displaying lists of actions or options.
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C.
Contextual Menus
Contextual Menus are right-click or modifier-click pop-up menus that provide quick access to commands relevant to the item or area currently selected on the screen.
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D.
macOS menu bar
The macOS menu bar is the horizontal system-wide bar at the top of the screen that provides access to app menus, system status icons, and various utilities.
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E.
Apple menu
The Apple menu is a system-wide menu in the classic Mac OS interface that provides quick access to key features, applications, and system utilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
AppKit class
ⓘ
Cocoa class ⓘ Objective-C class ⓘ |
| availableIn | Swift via AppKit bridging ⓘ |
| conformsTo |
NSCoding
ⓘ
NSCopying ⓘ NSValidatedUserInterfaceItem ⓘ |
| definedInFramework |
AppKit
ⓘ
linked to:
NeXTSTEP Application Kit
|
| hasInitializer | -initWithTitle: ⓘ |
| hasMethod |
+menuBarVisible
ⓘ
+menuZone ⓘ +popUpContextMenu:withEvent:forView: ⓘ +popUpContextMenu:withEvent:forView:withFont: ⓘ +setMenuBarVisible: ⓘ +setMenuZone: ⓘ -addItem: ⓘ -addItemWithTitle:action:keyEquivalent: ⓘ -cancelTracking ⓘ -indexOfItem: ⓘ -indexOfItemWithTag: ⓘ -indexOfItemWithTarget:andAction: ⓘ -indexOfItemWithTitle: ⓘ -insertItem:atIndex: ⓘ -itemAtIndex: ⓘ -itemChanged: ⓘ -itemWithTag: ⓘ -itemWithTitle: ⓘ -performKeyEquivalent: ⓘ -popUpMenuPositioningItem:atLocation:inView: ⓘ -removeItem: ⓘ -removeItemAtIndex: ⓘ -setMenuBarVisible: ⓘ -setSubmenu:forItem: ⓘ -update ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
allowsContextMenuPlugIns
ⓘ
autoenablesItems ⓘ delegate ⓘ font ⓘ itemArray ⓘ minimumWidth ⓘ title ⓘ |
| hasRelationship | contains NSMenuItem ⓘ |
| inheritsFrom | NSObject ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| language | Objective-C ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cocoa API
ⓘ
linked to:
Objective-C API
|
| platform | macOS ⓘ |
| supports |
dynamic menu construction
ⓘ
keyboard shortcuts ⓘ menu item validation ⓘ submenu hierarchies ⓘ |
| usedFor |
displaying menus
ⓘ
managing NSMenuItem objects ⓘ managing hierarchical menus ⓘ |
| usedIn |
context menus
ⓘ
macOS menu bar ⓘ popup menus ⓘ |
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: NSMenu Description of subject: NSMenu is a fundamental Cocoa class in macOS that manages and displays hierarchical menus and menu items within an application's user interface.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: NSMenu