Ageia
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Ageia was a technology company best known for creating the PhysX physics processing unit and middleware, later acquired by NVIDIA.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ageia canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7897054 — 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: Ageia Context triple: [PhysX, formerDeveloper, Ageia]
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A.
Agitos
Agitos is the official symbol of the International Paralympic Committee, consisting of three swooshing shapes that represent motion and the Paralympic values of courage, determination, inspiration, and equality.
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B.
Aidos
Aidos is the Greek personification of modesty, shame, and reverence that restrains humans from committing dishonorable acts.
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C.
Ascea
Ascea is a coastal town in southern Italy’s Cilento region, known for its beaches, archaeological sites, and proximity to the ancient city of Elea (Velia).
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D.
Kastos
Kastos is a small, tranquil Greek island in the Ionian Sea known for its picturesque harbor, clear waters, and traditional village atmosphere.
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E.
Arcadio
Arcadio is a character in Gabriel García Márquez's novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," a member of the Buendía family who briefly rules Macondo as a harsh and inexperienced dictator.
- 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: Ageia Target entity description: Ageia was a technology company best known for creating the PhysX physics processing unit and middleware, later acquired by NVIDIA.
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A.
Agitos
Agitos is the official symbol of the International Paralympic Committee, consisting of three swooshing shapes that represent motion and the Paralympic values of courage, determination, inspiration, and equality.
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B.
Aidos
Aidos is the Greek personification of modesty, shame, and reverence that restrains humans from committing dishonorable acts.
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C.
Ascea
Ascea is a coastal town in southern Italy’s Cilento region, known for its beaches, archaeological sites, and proximity to the ancient city of Elea (Velia).
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D.
Kastos
Kastos is a small, tranquil Greek island in the Ionian Sea known for its picturesque harbor, clear waters, and traditional village atmosphere.
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E.
Arcadio
Arcadio is a character in Gabriel García Márquez's novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," a member of the Buendía family who briefly rules Macondo as a harsh and inexperienced dictator.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fabless semiconductor company
ⓘ
technology company ⓘ |
| acquired | NovodeX ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Nvidia
ⓘ
linked to:
NVIDIA Corporation
|
| acquisitionDate | 2008 ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| defunctAfter | acquisition by Nvidia in 2008 ⓘ |
| developed |
NovodeX physics engine
ⓘ
linked to:
PhysX
PhysX SDK ⓘ
linked to:
PhysX
|
| fate | acquired by Nvidia ⓘ |
| formerName | AGEIA Technologies, Inc. ⓘ |
| foundationDate | 2002 ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Curtis Davis
ⓘ
Manju Hegde ⓘ others ⓘ |
| hardwarePlatform |
PCI Express add-in card
ⓘ
PCI add-in card ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Mountain View, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Mountain View, California, United States
|
| industry |
computer hardware
ⓘ
computer software ⓘ video game industry ⓘ |
| keyTechnology |
cloth simulation
ⓘ
fluid simulation ⓘ rigid body dynamics simulation ⓘ |
| knownFor |
PhysX physics engine
ⓘ
linked to:
PhysX
real-time physics acceleration ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
PhysX
ⓘ
PhysX PPU ⓘ
linked to:
PhysX
|
| parentCompanyAfterAcquisition |
Nvidia
ⓘ
linked to:
NVIDIA Corporation
|
| productType |
physics engine middleware
ⓘ
physics processing unit ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor |
Nvidia PhysX
ⓘ
linked to:
PhysX
|
| targetMarket |
PC gaming
ⓘ
game console development ⓘ |
| technologyDomain |
game development tools
ⓘ
real-time physics simulation ⓘ |
| usedIn |
PC games
ⓘ
console games ⓘ |
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: Ageia Description of subject: Ageia was a technology company best known for creating the PhysX physics processing unit and middleware, later acquired by NVIDIA.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.