SCNLight
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SCNLight is a SceneKit class that represents and configures different types of lights used to illuminate 3D scenes in Apple’s graphics frameworks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SCNLight canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8820751 — 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: SCNLight Context triple: [SceneKit, hasClass, SCNLight]
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A.
Lights
Lights is a 1983 rock song by the British band Journey, best known as a nostalgic ballad celebrating the city of San Francisco.
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B.
Lights
Lights is a Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known for her synth-pop sound and emotive, electronic-infused pop songs.
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C.
Lights
Lights is the debut studio album by English singer Ellie Goulding, blending electropop and indie pop and featuring the hit single "Starry Eyed."
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D.
LaserLight
"LaserLight" is a dance-pop song by English singer Jessie J, known for its energetic beat and uplifting, club-ready chorus.
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E.
Licht
Licht is Karlheinz Stockhausen’s monumental seven-opera cycle, each part associated with a day of the week and combining music, theater, and spirituality into one of the most ambitious works of 20th-century avant-garde music.
- 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: SCNLight Target entity description: SCNLight is a SceneKit class that represents and configures different types of lights used to illuminate 3D scenes in Apple’s graphics frameworks.
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A.
Lights
Lights is the debut studio album by English singer Ellie Goulding, blending electropop and indie pop and featuring the hit single "Starry Eyed."
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B.
Lights
Lights is a 1983 rock song by the British band Journey, best known as a nostalgic ballad celebrating the city of San Francisco.
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C.
Lights
Lights is a Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known for her synth-pop sound and emotive, electronic-infused pop songs.
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D.
LaserLight
"LaserLight" is a dance-pop song by English singer Jessie J, known for its energetic beat and uplifting, club-ready chorus.
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E.
Licht
Licht is Karlheinz Stockhausen’s monumental seven-opera cycle, each part associated with a day of the week and combining music, theater, and spirituality into one of the most ambitious works of 20th-century avant-garde music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (94)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
SceneKit class
ⓘ
class ⓘ |
| availableOnPlatform |
iOS
ⓘ
macOS ⓘ tvOS ⓘ visionOS ⓘ |
| belongsToSDK |
Apple Developer SDK
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple developer tools
|
| bridgesTo | MDLLight ⓘ |
| canBeAttachedTo | SCNNode ⓘ |
| conformsTo |
NSSecureCoding
ⓘ
SCNAnimatable ⓘ SCNTechniqueSupport ⓘ |
| definedInFramework | SceneKit ⓘ |
| definedInLanguage |
Objective-C
ⓘ
Swift ⓘ |
| definedInModule | SceneKit ⓘ |
| documentationURL | https://developer.apple.com/documentation/scenekit/scnlight ⓘ |
| hasClassMethod |
light
ⓘ
lightWithMDLLight: ⓘ |
| hasInitializer | init ⓘ |
| hasLightType |
IES
ⓘ
ambient ⓘ area ⓘ directional ⓘ omni ⓘ photometric ⓘ probe ⓘ spot ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
areaExtents
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areaPolygonVertices ⓘ areaType ⓘ attenuationEndDistance ⓘ attenuationFalloffExponent ⓘ attenuationStartDistance ⓘ automaticallyAdjustsShadowProjection ⓘ castsShadow ⓘ categoryBitMask ⓘ color ⓘ colorVariationOverAngle ⓘ colorVariationOverDistance ⓘ colorVariationOverTime ⓘ doubleSided ⓘ drawsArea ⓘ forcesBackFaceCasters ⓘ gobo ⓘ intensity ⓘ intensityVariationOverAngle ⓘ intensityVariationOverDistance ⓘ intensityVariationOverTime ⓘ maximumShadowDistance ⓘ name ⓘ orthographicScale ⓘ parallaxCenterOffset ⓘ parallaxCorrectionEnabled ⓘ parallaxExtentsFactor ⓘ probeEnvironment ⓘ probeExtents ⓘ probeOffset ⓘ probeType ⓘ probeUpdateType ⓘ sampleDistributedShadowMaps ⓘ shadowBias ⓘ shadowCascadeCount ⓘ shadowCascadeDistributionExponent ⓘ shadowCascadeMaximumDistance ⓘ shadowCascadeMinimumDistance ⓘ shadowCascadeSplittingFactor ⓘ shadowColor ⓘ shadowMapPointOfView ⓘ shadowMapSize ⓘ shadowMode ⓘ shadowRadius ⓘ shadowSampleCount ⓘ sphericalHarmonicsCoefficients ⓘ spotInnerAngle ⓘ spotOuterAngle ⓘ temperature ⓘ type ⓘ usesDeferredShadows ⓘ zFar ⓘ zNear ⓘ |
| hasRelationship | attachedToNode ⓘ |
| integratesWith | Model I/O ⓘ |
| primaryUseCase | configuring lighting in 3D scenes ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
HDR lighting
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area lights ⓘ gobos ⓘ light categories ⓘ light probes ⓘ physically based shading ⓘ shadows ⓘ |
| usedFor | 3D scene illumination ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Apple graphics frameworks
ⓘ
SceneKit rendering pipeline ⓘ
linked to:
SceneKit
|
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: SCNLight Description of subject: SCNLight is a SceneKit class that represents and configures different types of lights used to illuminate 3D scenes in Apple’s graphics frameworks.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.