Sony SPC700
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The Sony SPC700 is an 8-bit audio processing unit used in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System to handle music and sound effects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sony SPC700 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5136982 — 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: Sony SPC700 Context triple: [Super Nintendo Entertainment System, soundChip, Sony SPC700]
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A.
Sony TPS-L2
The Sony TPS-L2 is the first commercially successful portable cassette player that launched Sony’s iconic Walkman line and revolutionized personal music listening.
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B.
Ricoh 2A03
The Ricoh 2A03 is an 8-bit microprocessor derived from the MOS Technology 6502 that powered the Nintendo Entertainment System and integrated both CPU and audio functions.
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C.
Sharp X68000
The Sharp X68000 is a Japanese home computer and gaming system from the late 1980s and early 1990s, renowned for its advanced graphics and sound capabilities that made it a premier platform for high-quality arcade game ports.
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D.
Sharp X68030
The Sharp X68030 is a high-end Japanese personal computer released in the early 1990s, known for its powerful Motorola 68030 CPU and advanced graphics and sound capabilities popular among enthusiasts and game developers.
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E.
Sony 3.5-inch floppy drive
The Sony 3.5-inch floppy drive is a compact, durable floppy disk format that became the industry standard for personal computers in the 1980s and 1990s.
- 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: Sony SPC700 Target entity description: The Sony SPC700 is an 8-bit audio processing unit used in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System to handle music and sound effects.
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A.
Sony TPS-L2
The Sony TPS-L2 is the first commercially successful portable cassette player that launched Sony’s iconic Walkman line and revolutionized personal music listening.
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B.
Ricoh 2A03
The Ricoh 2A03 is an 8-bit microprocessor derived from the MOS Technology 6502 that powered the Nintendo Entertainment System and integrated both CPU and audio functions.
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C.
Sharp X68000
The Sharp X68000 is a Japanese home computer and gaming system from the late 1980s and early 1990s, renowned for its advanced graphics and sound capabilities that made it a premier platform for high-quality arcade game ports.
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D.
Sharp X68030
The Sharp X68030 is a high-end Japanese personal computer released in the early 1990s, known for its powerful Motorola 68030 CPU and advanced graphics and sound capabilities popular among enthusiasts and game developers.
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E.
Sony 3.5-inch floppy drive
The Sony 3.5-inch floppy drive is a compact, durable floppy disk format that became the industry standard for personal computers in the 1980s and 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
8-bit microprocessor
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audio processing unit ⓘ |
| architecture | 8-bit ⓘ |
| clockSource | separate from main SNES CPU ⓘ |
| componentOf | SNES audio subsystem ⓘ |
| controls |
audio sequencing
ⓘ
sample playback ⓘ |
| dataBusWidth | 8-bit ⓘ |
| designedFor | video game consoles ⓘ |
| generation | fourth-generation video game console hardware ⓘ |
| handles | audio communication with S-DSP ⓘ |
| instructionSet | custom 8-bit instruction set ⓘ |
| introducedIn | early 1990s ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Sony ⓘ |
| memoryAccess | dedicated audio RAM ⓘ |
| primaryRole | audio processing ⓘ |
| region | used in all regional variants of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System ⓘ |
| separateFrom | Super Nintendo Entertainment System main CPU ⓘ |
| usedBy | SNES game developers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
music playback
ⓘ
sound effects playback ⓘ |
| usedIn | Super Nintendo Entertainment System ⓘ |
| wordLength | 8-bit ⓘ |
| worksTogetherWith | S-DSP ⓘ |
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: Sony SPC700 Description of subject: The Sony SPC700 is an 8-bit audio processing unit used in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System to handle music and sound effects.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.