XAudio
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XAudio is a low-level audio API developed by Microsoft for high-performance sound processing and playback in Xbox and Windows games.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| XAudio canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8289257 — 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: XAudio Context triple: [Xbox OS, supportsAPI, XAudio]
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A.
Core Sound
Core Sound is a shallow coastal lagoon and estuary along the central North Carolina coast, lying behind the Outer Banks barrier islands.
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B.
AudioSculpt
AudioSculpt is a sound analysis and processing software developed by IRCAM, widely used for detailed spectral editing and transformation of audio.
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C.
Audion
Audion is an early triode vacuum tube invented by Lee de Forest that enabled the amplification of electrical signals and was crucial to the development of radio and electronics.
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D.
Web Audio API
The Web Audio API is a high-level JavaScript API for creating, processing, and controlling audio in web applications, enabling complex audio effects, spatialization, and real-time audio synthesis directly in the browser.
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E.
Tempest 3D AudioTech
Tempest 3D AudioTech is Sony’s dedicated 3D spatial audio engine for PlayStation 5, designed to deliver highly immersive, directionally precise sound in games.
- 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: XAudio Target entity description: XAudio is a low-level audio API developed by Microsoft for high-performance sound processing and playback in Xbox and Windows games.
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A.
Core Sound
Core Sound is a shallow coastal lagoon and estuary along the central North Carolina coast, lying behind the Outer Banks barrier islands.
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B.
AudioSculpt
AudioSculpt is a sound analysis and processing software developed by IRCAM, widely used for detailed spectral editing and transformation of audio.
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C.
Audion
Audion is an early triode vacuum tube invented by Lee de Forest that enabled the amplification of electrical signals and was crucial to the development of radio and electronics.
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D.
Web Audio API
The Web Audio API is a high-level JavaScript API for creating, processing, and controlling audio in web applications, enabling complex audio effects, spatialization, and real-time audio synthesis directly in the browser.
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E.
Tempest 3D AudioTech
Tempest 3D AudioTech is Sony’s dedicated 3D spatial audio engine for PlayStation 5, designed to deliver highly immersive, directionally precise sound in games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
audio API
ⓘ
low-level audio API ⓘ |
| abstractionLevel | low-level ⓘ |
| designedFor | real-time audio ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| domain | digital audio ⓘ |
| feature |
audio filtering
ⓘ
fine-grained control over audio voices ⓘ hardware-accelerated audio where available ⓘ software mixing fallback ⓘ support for multiple audio streams ⓘ support for sound effects chains ⓘ volume and pitch control ⓘ |
| goal |
high performance
ⓘ
low CPU overhead ⓘ low latency audio processing ⓘ |
| languageBinding | C++ ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | Windows ⓘ |
| partOf |
Microsoft game development technologies
ⓘ
linked to:
Microsoft Developer Division
|
| platform | Xbox ⓘ |
| supports |
3D audio
ⓘ
audio effects ⓘ audio mixing ⓘ low-latency playback ⓘ multichannel audio ⓘ streaming audio ⓘ |
| targetDeveloper | game developers ⓘ |
| useCase |
audio playback
ⓘ
game audio ⓘ high-performance sound processing ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Windows games
ⓘ
Xbox 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: XAudio Description of subject: XAudio is a low-level audio API developed by Microsoft for high-performance sound processing and playback in Xbox and Windows games.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.