Silicon Image
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Silicon Image was a semiconductor company best known for pioneering digital interface technologies, including key contributions to the development and commercialization of HDMI.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Silicon Image canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5015950 — 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: Silicon Image Context triple: [HDMI, developedBy, Silicon Image]
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A.
NuvoMedia
NuvoMedia was an early e-book technology company best known for creating the Rocket eBook, one of the first dedicated electronic book readers.
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B.
Oberon Microsystems
Oberon Microsystems is a Swiss software company known for its work on the Oberon family of languages and systems, including the development of the Component Pascal programming language.
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C.
Lamont Digital Systems
Lamont Digital Systems is a telecommunications and cable television company founded by businessman and future Connecticut governor Ned Lamont.
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D.
Transmeta
Transmeta was an innovative semiconductor company best known for its low-power x86-compatible microprocessors and for employing Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
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E.
Intersil
Intersil is an American semiconductor company known for designing and manufacturing analog, mixed-signal, and power management integrated circuits for a wide range of electronic applications.
- 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: Silicon Image Target entity description: Silicon Image was a semiconductor company best known for pioneering digital interface technologies, including key contributions to the development and commercialization of HDMI.
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A.
NuvoMedia
NuvoMedia was an early e-book technology company best known for creating the Rocket eBook, one of the first dedicated electronic book readers.
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B.
Oberon Microsystems
Oberon Microsystems is a Swiss software company known for its work on the Oberon family of languages and systems, including the development of the Component Pascal programming language.
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C.
Lamont Digital Systems
Lamont Digital Systems is a telecommunications and cable television company founded by businessman and future Connecticut governor Ned Lamont.
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D.
Transmeta
Transmeta was an innovative semiconductor company best known for its low-power x86-compatible microprocessors and for employing Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
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E.
Intersil
Intersil is an American semiconductor company known for designing and manufacturing analog, mixed-signal, and power management integrated circuits for a wide range of electronic applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | semiconductor company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Lattice Semiconductor ⓘ |
| acquisitionType | merger and acquisition ⓘ |
| businessModel | fabless semiconductor ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
commercialization of HDMI
ⓘ
development of HDMI specification ⓘ |
| coreCompetency |
interface IP and standards
ⓘ
mixed-signal integrated circuits ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| impact |
advanced interoperability between AV devices
ⓘ
enabled widespread adoption of HDMI in consumer electronics ⓘ helped transition from analog to digital video interfaces ⓘ |
| industry |
consumer electronics interfaces
ⓘ
semiconductors ⓘ |
| knownFor |
DVI technology
ⓘ
HDMI technology ⓘ MHL technology ⓘ SATA technology ⓘ digital interface technologies ⓘ |
| productType |
DVI interface chips
ⓘ
HDMI receiver chips ⓘ HDMI transmitter chips ⓘ interface controller chips ⓘ storage interface controllers ⓘ |
| provided |
compliance test solutions for HDMI
ⓘ
reference designs for HDMI products ⓘ |
| roleInStandard |
HDMI founding member
ⓘ
MHL founding promoter ⓘ |
| servedMarket |
PC market
ⓘ
consumer electronics market ⓘ mobile devices market ⓘ storage systems market ⓘ |
| standardizationActivity |
HDMI Licensing LLC participation
ⓘ
MHL Consortium participation ⓘ Serial ATA International Organization participation ⓘ |
| targetCustomers |
PC motherboard manufacturers
ⓘ
TV manufacturers ⓘ mobile handset manufacturers ⓘ set-top box manufacturers ⓘ |
| technologyFocus |
consumer electronics connectivity
ⓘ
digital video interconnects ⓘ high-speed serial interfaces ⓘ |
| technologyType |
PHY and link-layer interface technology
ⓘ
high-definition multimedia interfaces ⓘ |
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: Silicon Image Description of subject: Silicon Image was a semiconductor company best known for pioneering digital interface technologies, including key contributions to the development and commercialization of HDMI.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.