Alembic
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Alembic is an open-source computer graphics interchange framework and file format used to efficiently store and transfer complex animated 3D geometry and scene data between different software tools.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alembic canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8820743 — 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: Alembic Context triple: [SceneKit, supportsFileFormat, Alembic]
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A.
Alembic
Alembic is a lightweight database migration tool for SQLAlchemy used to manage and version schema changes in Python applications.
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B.
Beaker
Beaker is a high-strung, squeaky-voiced lab assistant from The Muppets, known for his nervous demeanor and frequent mishaps in scientific experiments.
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C.
Jarre
Jarre is a French family name most famously associated with electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre and his father, film composer Maurice Jarre.
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D.
Yetter
Yetter is a mathematician known for contributions to knot theory and related areas of topology, including work connected to the HOMFLY-PT polynomial.
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E.
Philortyx
Philortyx is a genus of New World quails known for their ground-dwelling habits and occurrence in scrub and grassland habitats of the Americas.
- 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: Alembic Target entity description: Alembic is an open-source computer graphics interchange framework and file format used to efficiently store and transfer complex animated 3D geometry and scene data between different software tools.
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A.
Alembic
Alembic is a lightweight database migration tool for SQLAlchemy used to manage and version schema changes in Python applications.
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B.
Beaker
Beaker is a high-strung, squeaky-voiced lab assistant from The Muppets, known for his nervous demeanor and frequent mishaps in scientific experiments.
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C.
Jarre
Jarre is a French family name most famously associated with electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre and his father, film composer Maurice Jarre.
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D.
Yetter
Yetter is a mathematician known for contributions to knot theory and related areas of topology, including work connected to the HOMFLY-PT polynomial.
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E.
Philortyx
Philortyx is a genus of New World quails known for their ground-dwelling habits and occurrence in scrub and grassland habitats of the Americas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
3D file format
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computer graphics interchange framework ⓘ open-source software project ⓘ |
| designedFor |
animation pipelines
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cross-application data exchange ⓘ efficient interchange of animated scenes ⓘ feature film production ⓘ game cinematics pipelines ⓘ high-end visual effects workflows ⓘ |
| developedBy |
Industrial Light & Magic
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Sony Pictures Imageworks ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
application-agnostic data representation
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baked results over procedural dependency graphs ⓘ |
| hasFileExtension | .abc ⓘ |
| hasLicense | BSD-style open-source license ⓘ |
| hostedOn | GitHub ⓘ |
| implementedIn | C++ ⓘ |
| isOpenSource | true ⓘ |
| provides |
C++ API
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Python API ⓘ |
| supportsDataType |
NURBS surfaces
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animated 3D geometry ⓘ cameras ⓘ lights ⓘ materials metadata ⓘ particle data ⓘ polygon meshes ⓘ scene data ⓘ subdivision surfaces ⓘ topology ⓘ transform hierarchies ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
backward compatibility of files
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baked animation ⓘ deformation caching ⓘ geometry caching ⓘ hierarchical scene representation ⓘ instancing ⓘ streaming I/O ⓘ time-sampled data ⓘ versioning of schemas ⓘ |
| supportsWorkflow |
asset handoff between departments
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cross-facility data exchange ⓘ layout to lighting data transfer ⓘ render farm caching ⓘ simulation to rendering data transfer ⓘ |
| usedInIndustry |
animation
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film production ⓘ games ⓘ television production ⓘ visual effects ⓘ |
| usedInSoftware |
Autodesk 3ds Max
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Autodesk Maya ⓘ Blender ⓘ Cinema 4D ⓘ Foundry Nuke ⓘ Katana ⓘ SideFX Houdini ⓘ |
| uses |
HDF5
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linked to:
HDF
Ogawa storage backend ⓘ |
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: Alembic Description of subject: Alembic is an open-source computer graphics interchange framework and file format used to efficiently store and transfer complex animated 3D geometry and scene data between different software tools.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.