Windows SDK
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Windows SDK is Microsoft's official collection of tools, headers, libraries, and documentation used by developers to build applications for the Windows operating system.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Windows SDK canonical | 6 |
| Microsoft Platform SDK | 4 |
| Microsoft Windows SDK | 1 |
| Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit | 1 |
| Windows (client libraries) | 1 |
| Windows 10 SDK | 1 |
| Windows 8 SDK | 1 |
| Windows SDK documentation | 1 |
| Windows development framework | 1 |
| Windows development tools | 1 |
| Windows.h | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1719475 — 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 SDK Context triple: [Win32 API, distribution, Windows SDK]
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A.
Win32 API
Win32 API is Microsoft's core programming interface for developing native desktop applications that interact directly with the Windows operating system.
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B.
Windows App SDK
Windows App SDK is a unified set of developer tools and APIs for building modern Windows desktop applications with consistent UI, app model, and system integration across different Windows versions.
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C.
DirectX
DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Microsoft that enables high-performance handling of graphics, sound, and other multimedia tasks, especially for games, on Windows platforms.
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D.
Microsoft Foundation Classes
Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) is an object-oriented C++ library from Microsoft that simplifies the development of Windows desktop applications by wrapping the Windows API in reusable classes.
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E.
Microsoft APIs
Microsoft APIs are a collection of programmable interfaces and services provided by Microsoft that allow developers to integrate, extend, and interact with Microsoft platforms, applications, and cloud offerings.
- 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 SDK Target entity description: Windows SDK is Microsoft's official collection of tools, headers, libraries, and documentation used by developers to build applications for the Windows operating system.
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A.
Win32 API
Win32 API is Microsoft's core programming interface for developing native desktop applications that interact directly with the Windows operating system.
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B.
Windows App SDK
Windows App SDK is a unified set of developer tools and APIs for building modern Windows desktop applications with consistent UI, app model, and system integration across different Windows versions.
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C.
DirectX
DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Microsoft that enables high-performance handling of graphics, sound, and other multimedia tasks, especially for games, on Windows platforms.
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D.
Microsoft Foundation Classes
Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) is an object-oriented C++ library from Microsoft that simplifies the development of Windows desktop applications by wrapping the Windows API in reusable classes.
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E.
Microsoft APIs
Microsoft APIs are a collection of programmable interfaces and services provided by Microsoft that allow developers to integrate, extend, and interact with Microsoft platforms, applications, and cloud offerings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Microsoft software product
ⓘ
software development kit ⓘ |
| canBeInstalled | as a standalone package ⓘ |
| component |
.NET reference assemblies for Windows APIs
ⓘ
Windows App Certification Kit ⓘ Windows Metadata (.winmd) files ⓘ Windows Performance Toolkit ⓘ Windows headers for C/C++ ⓘ command-line tools ⓘ debugging tools ⓘ documentation in CHM or online format ⓘ import libraries for Windows APIs ⓘ linker and build tools ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| distributedWith | Visual Studio ⓘ |
| formerlyKnownAs |
Platform SDK
ⓘ
linked to:
SDKs
|
| includes |
documentation
ⓘ
headers ⓘ libraries ⓘ sample code ⓘ tools ⓘ |
| license |
freeware
ⓘ
proprietary ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Microsoft Windows Developer Platform team ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | Windows ⓘ |
| purpose | to develop applications for the Windows operating system ⓘ |
| supports |
COM-based Windows APIs
ⓘ
WinUI APIs ⓘ
linked to:
WinUI
Windows security and cryptography APIs ⓘ |
| supportsArchitecture |
ARM
ⓘ
ARM64 ⓘ x64 ⓘ x86 ⓘ |
| supportsProgrammingLanguage |
.NET languages
ⓘ
C ⓘ C# ⓘ
linked to:
C# programming language
C++ ⓘ Visual Basic .NET ⓘ |
| targetPlatform |
.NET 5 and later
ⓘ
.NET Core ⓘ .NET Framework ⓘ Universal Windows Platform ⓘ Win32 API ⓘ Windows API ⓘ
linked to:
Win32 API
Windows Runtime ⓘ
linked to:
WinRT
|
| usedFor |
developing UWP applications
ⓘ
developing Windows Store apps ⓘ developing Windows services ⓘ developing desktop applications ⓘ developing drivers in conjunction with WDK ⓘ |
| versioning | aligned with Windows versions ⓘ |
| website | https://developer.microsoft.com/windows ⓘ |
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 SDK Description of subject: Windows SDK is Microsoft's official collection of tools, headers, libraries, and documentation used by developers to build applications for the Windows operating system.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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