WavPack
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WavPack is a free, open-source audio compression format known for offering both lossless and hybrid (lossy+correction) encoding modes.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7033371 — 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: WavPack Context triple: [FLAC, competesWith, WavPack]
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A.
Vorbis
Vorbis is a fanatical and manipulative high priest and inquisitor who serves as the primary antagonist in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel "Small Gods."
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B.
WAV
WAV is the vehicle registration code used to identify motor vehicles registered in the municipality of Wavre in Belgium.
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C.
FLAC
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an open-source audio compression format that reduces file size without any loss in sound quality, commonly used for high-fidelity music archiving and playback.
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D.
Speex
Speex is an open-source, patent-free audio compression codec designed primarily for efficient, high-quality speech encoding.
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E.
Cinepak
Cinepak is an early video compression codec widely used in the 1990s for CD-ROM and multimedia applications due to its ability to play smoothly on low-powered hardware.
- 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: WavPack Target entity description: WavPack is a free, open-source audio compression format known for offering both lossless and hybrid (lossy+correction) encoding modes.
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A.
Vorbis
Vorbis is a fanatical and manipulative high priest and inquisitor who serves as the primary antagonist in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel "Small Gods."
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B.
WAV
WAV is the vehicle registration code used to identify motor vehicles registered in the municipality of Wavre in Belgium.
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C.
FLAC
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an open-source audio compression format that reduces file size without any loss in sound quality, commonly used for high-fidelity music archiving and playback.
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D.
Speex
Speex is an open-source, patent-free audio compression codec designed primarily for efficient, high-quality speech encoding.
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E.
Cinepak
Cinepak is an early video compression codec widely used in the 1990s for CD-ROM and multimedia applications due to its ability to play smoothly on low-powered hardware.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
audio compression format
ⓘ
lossless audio codec ⓘ open-source software ⓘ |
| category |
audio codec
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audio file format ⓘ |
| compressionType |
hybrid
ⓘ
lossless ⓘ lossy ⓘ |
| developer | David Bryant ⓘ |
| fileExtension |
.wv
ⓘ
.wvc ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
DTS audio support via lossless compression of DTS-in-WAV
ⓘ
MD5 audio checksums ⓘ embedded cuesheets ⓘ error detection ⓘ fast decoding ⓘ hybrid mode with correction file ⓘ pipe support ⓘ raw mode ⓘ replay gain support ⓘ seekable files ⓘ streaming support ⓘ tagging support ⓘ |
| isFreeSoftware | true ⓘ |
| license | BSD-like license ⓘ |
| openSource | true ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Android
ⓘ
BSD ⓘ Linux ⓘ Windows ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| supports |
RIFF WAV files
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correction files ⓘ floating-point audio ⓘ high-resolution audio ⓘ hybrid audio compression ⓘ lossless audio compression ⓘ lossy audio compression ⓘ multichannel audio ⓘ raw PCM audio ⓘ |
| supportsBitDepth |
16-bit
ⓘ
24-bit ⓘ 32-bit floating point ⓘ 8-bit ⓘ |
| supportsSampleRate |
192 kHz
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44.1 kHz ⓘ 48 kHz ⓘ 96 kHz ⓘ |
| website | https://www.wavpack.com/ ⓘ |
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: WavPack Description of subject: WavPack is a free, open-source audio compression format known for offering both lossless and hybrid (lossy+correction) encoding modes.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: WavPack