Flash Video
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Flash Video is a digital video format used primarily for delivering streaming video content over the web via Adobe Flash Player.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FLV | 2 |
| Flash Video canonical | 2 |
| Adobe Flash Video | 1 |
| Flash Video (FLV) in later versions | 1 |
| SWF | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1429795 — 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: Flash Video Context triple: [Macromedia, knownFor, Flash Video]
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A.
Flash (software)
Flash (software) is a now-discontinued multimedia platform used for creating and displaying interactive web content, animations, and browser-based games and applications.
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B.
AVS
AVS is a professional society focused on advancing the science and technology of materials, interfaces, and processing through research, education, and collaboration.
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C.
VIDP
VIDP is the ICAO airport code for Indira Gandhi International Airport, the primary international aviation hub serving New Delhi, India.
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D.
DirectShow
DirectShow is a Microsoft multimedia framework and API used on Windows for capturing, processing, and playing audio and video streams.
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E.
H.264
H.264 is a widely used video compression standard known for delivering high-quality video at relatively low bitrates, commonly employed in streaming, broadcasting, and video recording.
- 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: Flash Video Target entity description: Flash Video is a digital video format used primarily for delivering streaming video content over the web via Adobe Flash Player.
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A.
Flash (software)
Flash (software) is a now-discontinued multimedia platform used for creating and displaying interactive web content, animations, and browser-based games and applications.
-
B.
AVS
AVS is a professional society focused on advancing the science and technology of materials, interfaces, and processing through research, education, and collaboration.
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C.
VIDP
VIDP is the ICAO airport code for Indira Gandhi International Airport, the primary international aviation hub serving New Delhi, India.
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D.
DirectShow
DirectShow is a Microsoft multimedia framework and API used on Windows for capturing, processing, and playing audio and video streams.
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E.
H.264
H.264 is a widely used video compression standard known for delivering high-quality video at relatively low bitrates, commonly employed in streaming, broadcasting, and video recording.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
digital video format
ⓘ
multimedia container format ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
ActionScript
ⓘ
RTMP ⓘ |
| audioCodecExamples |
AAC
ⓘ
MP3 ⓘ |
| basedOn | Adobe Flash technology ⓘ |
| commonlyEmbeddedUsing |
<embed> HTML tag
ⓘ
<object> HTML tag ⓘ |
| commonlyUsedBy |
Hulu (historically)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hulu
YouTube (historically) ⓘ
linked to:
YouTube
various video sharing websites ⓘ |
| containerFor |
audio streams
ⓘ
metadata ⓘ video streams ⓘ |
| containerType |
F4V
ⓘ
FLV ⓘ
linked to:
Flash Video
|
| developedBy |
Adobe Systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Adobe Inc.
Macromedia ⓘ |
| fileExtension |
.f4v
ⓘ
.flv ⓘ |
| introduced | early 2000s ⓘ |
| mimeType | video/x-flv ⓘ |
| platform | web ⓘ |
| playbackSupportedBy |
Adobe Flash Player
ⓘ
linked to:
Flash (software)
third-party media players ⓘ |
| relatedFormat | SWF ⓘ |
| requiresPlugin |
Adobe Flash Player
ⓘ
linked to:
Flash (software)
|
| standardizedAs | Adobe proprietary format ⓘ |
| status | largely deprecated ⓘ |
| supersededBy |
HTML5 video
ⓘ
MP4 with H.264 ⓘ |
| supportsAlphaChannel | true (with certain codecs) ⓘ |
| supportsCodec |
AAC
ⓘ
H.264 ⓘ On2 VP6 ⓘ Sorenson Spark ⓘ
linked to:
Sorenson Video
|
| supportsProgressiveDownload | true ⓘ |
| supportsStreaming | true ⓘ |
| supportsStreamingProtocol |
RTMP
ⓘ
RTMPE ⓘ RTMPS ⓘ RTMPT ⓘ |
| usedFor |
online video delivery
ⓘ
streaming video over the web ⓘ |
| usedWith |
Adobe Flash Player
ⓘ
linked to:
Flash (software)
|
| videoCodecExamples |
H.264
ⓘ
On2 VP6 ⓘ Sorenson Spark ⓘ
linked to:
Sorenson Video
|
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: Flash Video Description of subject: Flash Video is a digital video format used primarily for delivering streaming video content over the web via Adobe Flash Player.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Flash Video
linked to: Flash Video
linked to: Flash Video
linked to: Flash Video
linked to: Flash Video