DVD
E215060
DVD is an optical disc format widely used from the late 1990s for distributing movies and other digital data, offering higher capacity and quality than VHS tapes but less than Blu-ray Discs.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DVD canonical | 12 |
| DVD-Video | 6 |
| DVD-R | 1 |
| DVD-ROM | 1 |
| Digital Versatile Disc | 1 |
| Digital Video Disc | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1934675 — 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: DVD Context triple: [Blu-ray Disc, predecessor, DVD]
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A.
Blu-ray Disc format
The Blu-ray Disc format is a high-definition optical disc technology used for storing and playing back HD and Ultra HD video and large amounts of digital data.
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B.
DCP
DCP is the New York City agency responsible for guiding land use, zoning, and long-term urban planning across the five boroughs.
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C.
CD+G
CD+G is a compact disc format that stores low-resolution graphics alongside audio, commonly used for karaoke and simple visual displays.
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D.
DV
DV is the standard abbreviation for *Dei Verbum*, the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation.
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E.
DV
DV is the stock ticker symbol for DeVry Inc., a for-profit higher education company traded on public markets.
- 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: DVD Target entity description: DVD is an optical disc format widely used from the late 1990s for distributing movies and other digital data, offering higher capacity and quality than VHS tapes but less than Blu-ray Discs.
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A.
Blu-ray Disc format
The Blu-ray Disc format is a high-definition optical disc technology used for storing and playing back HD and Ultra HD video and large amounts of digital data.
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B.
DCP
DCP is the New York City agency responsible for guiding land use, zoning, and long-term urban planning across the five boroughs.
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C.
CD+G
CD+G is a compact disc format that stores low-resolution graphics alongside audio, commonly used for karaoke and simple visual displays.
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D.
DV
DV is the stock ticker symbol for DeVry Inc., a for-profit higher education company traded on public markets.
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E.
DV
DV is the standard abbreviation for *Dei Verbum*, the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: DVD Description of subject: DVD is an optical disc format widely used from the late 1990s for distributing movies and other digital data, offering higher capacity and quality than VHS tapes but less than Blu-ray Discs.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Blu-ray Disc format
linked to: DVD
linked to: DVD
linked to: DVD
linked to: DVD
linked to: DVD
linked to: DVD
linked to: DVD
linked to: DVD