Shockwave
E163325
Shockwave is a now-discontinued multimedia platform and browser plugin developed by Macromedia (later Adobe) for delivering interactive web content, games, and animations.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shockwave canonical | 3 |
| Shockwave 3D | 1 |
| Shockwave for Director | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1429790 — 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: Shockwave Context triple: [Macromedia, knownFor, Shockwave]
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A.
Havoc
Havoc is an American rapper and record producer best known as one half of the influential hip-hop duo Mobb Deep.
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B.
Youngblood
"Youngblood" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day from their 2016 album *Revolution Radio*.
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C.
Overload
"Overload" is a song by the Christian rock band Darkness and Light, likely featuring their characteristic blend of heavy guitar-driven sound and spiritually themed lyrics.
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D.
Scorpion II
Scorpion II was a predynastic Egyptian ruler, likely a king of Upper Egypt, who reigned shortly before the unification of Egypt under Narmer.
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E.
Earthshock
Earthshock is a classic 1982 Doctor Who serial featuring the Fifth Doctor, notable for the dramatic return of the Cybermen and the shocking death of companion Adric.
- 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: Shockwave Target entity description: Shockwave is a now-discontinued multimedia platform and browser plugin developed by Macromedia (later Adobe) for delivering interactive web content, games, and animations.
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A.
Havoc
Havoc is an American rapper and record producer best known as one half of the influential hip-hop duo Mobb Deep.
-
B.
Youngblood
"Youngblood" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day from their 2016 album *Revolution Radio*.
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C.
Overload
"Overload" is a song by the Christian rock band Darkness and Light, likely featuring their characteristic blend of heavy guitar-driven sound and spiritually themed lyrics.
-
D.
Scorpion II
Scorpion II was a predynastic Egyptian ruler, likely a king of Upper Egypt, who reigned shortly before the unification of Egypt under Narmer.
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E.
Earthshock
Earthshock is a classic 1982 Doctor Who serial featuring the Fifth Doctor, notable for the dramatic return of the Cybermen and the shocking death of companion Adric.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
browser plugin
ⓘ
multimedia platform ⓘ |
| basedOn | Adobe Director ⓘ |
| competesWith |
Adobe Flash
ⓘ
linked to:
Flash (software)
HTML5-based multimedia ⓘ Java applets ⓘ
linked to:
Oracle Java plugin
|
| developer |
Adobe Systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Adobe Inc.
Macromedia ⓘ |
| discontinuationReason |
decline of browser plugins
ⓘ
shift to HTML5 and modern web standards ⓘ |
| discontinuedBy |
Adobe Systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Adobe Inc.
|
| distributionMethod | web browser plugin ⓘ |
| fileFormat |
.cct
ⓘ
.cst ⓘ .dcr ⓘ .dir ⓘ .dxr ⓘ .swa ⓘ |
| license | proprietary software ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Adobe Systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Adobe Inc.
Macromedia ⓘ |
| platform |
Microsoft Windows
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
macOS ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
JavaScript (via Director scripting)
ⓘ
linked to:
JavaScript
Lingo ⓘ |
| requires | Shockwave Player ⓘ |
| runtimeFor | Adobe Director ⓘ |
| securityIssues | frequent security vulnerabilities ⓘ |
| softwareGenre |
browser plugin
ⓘ
web multimedia platform ⓘ |
| status | discontinued ⓘ |
| supports |
interactive web content
ⓘ
online games ⓘ web animations ⓘ |
| supports3D | true ⓘ |
| supportsAudio | true ⓘ |
| supportsBrowser |
Google Chrome (legacy NPAPI support)
ⓘ
Internet Explorer ⓘ Mozilla Firefox ⓘ Netscape Navigator ⓘ Safari ⓘ |
| supportsRasterGraphics | true ⓘ |
| supportsVectorGraphics | true ⓘ |
| supportsVideo | true ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
e-learning content creators
ⓘ
interactive media designers ⓘ web game developers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
online multimedia presentations
ⓘ
rich internet 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: Shockwave Description of subject: Shockwave is a now-discontinued multimedia platform and browser plugin developed by Macromedia (later Adobe) for delivering interactive web content, games, and animations.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shockwave