Windows Media Player
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Windows Media Player is Microsoft’s built-in multimedia application for playing audio, video, and streaming media on Windows operating systems.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Windows Media Player canonical | 14 |
| Windows Media Player 12 | 2 |
| Windows Media Player 7 | 2 |
| Media Player | 1 |
| Windows Media Player (beta version) | 1 |
| Windows Media Player 6.x | 1 |
| Windows Media Player Mobile | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1621419 — 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: Windows Media Player Context triple: [Windows 98, includedComponent, Windows Media Player]
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A.
Windows Media Center
Windows Media Center is a discontinued Microsoft digital video recorder and media player application for Windows that provided a TV-friendly interface for watching and recording live television, playing media, and accessing online content.
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B.
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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C.
Windows 7
Windows 7 is a Microsoft operating system known for its improved performance, refined user interface, and widespread adoption following Windows Vista.
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D.
Windows
Windows is a widely used family of graphical operating systems developed by Microsoft for personal computers, servers, and other devices.
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E.
Plex
Plex is a media server and streaming platform that lets users organize, stream, and access their personal and online media libraries across various devices.
- 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: Windows Media Player Target entity description: Windows Media Player is Microsoft’s built-in multimedia application for playing audio, video, and streaming media on Windows operating systems.
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A.
Windows Media Center
Windows Media Center is a discontinued Microsoft digital video recorder and media player application for Windows that provided a TV-friendly interface for watching and recording live television, playing media, and accessing online content.
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B.
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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C.
Windows 7
Windows 7 is a Microsoft operating system known for its improved performance, refined user interface, and widespread adoption following Windows Vista.
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D.
Windows
Windows is a widely used family of graphical operating systems developed by Microsoft for personal computers, servers, and other devices.
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E.
Plex
Plex is a media server and streaming platform that lets users organize, stream, and access their personal and online media libraries across various devices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Windows component
ⓘ
media player software ⓘ version of Windows Media Player ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| feature |
CD burning
ⓘ
CD ripping ⓘ media library management ⓘ online media guide integration ⓘ playlists ⓘ plug-in support ⓘ skins support ⓘ streaming media playback ⓘ synchronization with portable devices ⓘ visualizations ⓘ |
| includedWith |
Windows 10
ⓘ
Windows 7 ⓘ Windows 8 ⓘ Windows operating system ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
|
| initialReleaseYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| latestMajorVersion |
Windows Media Player 12
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Media Player
|
| license | proprietary software ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Microsoft Windows
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
Windows 10 ⓘ Windows 2000 ⓘ Windows 7 ⓘ Windows 8 ⓘ Windows 95 ⓘ Windows 98 ⓘ Windows ME ⓘ Windows Server family ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Server
Windows Vista ⓘ Windows XP ⓘ |
| platform |
IA-32
ⓘ
x86-64 ⓘ |
| previousName |
Media Player
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Media Player
|
| programmingLanguage | C++ ⓘ |
| supportsDRM | Windows Media DRM ⓘ |
| supportsFormat |
AAC
ⓘ
ASF ⓘ AVI ⓘ CD audio ⓘ DVD-Video ⓘ MP3 ⓘ MPEG-2 ⓘ MPEG-4 ⓘ WAV ⓘ WMA ⓘ WMV ⓘ |
| supportsLanguage | multilingual user interface ⓘ |
| supportsMetadata |
ID3 tags
ⓘ
album art ⓘ automatic media information retrieval ⓘ media ratings ⓘ play counts ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
HTTP streaming
ⓘ
MMS ⓘ RTSP ⓘ |
| website | https://support.microsoft.com/windows-media-player ⓘ |
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: Windows Media Player Description of subject: Windows Media Player is Microsoft’s built-in multimedia application for playing audio, video, and streaming media on Windows operating systems.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Windows Media Player
linked to: Windows Media Player
linked to: Windows Media Player
linked to: Windows Media Player
linked to: Windows Media Player
linked to: Windows Media Player
linked to: Windows Media Player
linked to: Windows Media Player