AVAsset
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AVAsset is a fundamental AVFoundation class that models timed audiovisual media, providing a read-only representation of video, audio, and related metadata used for playback, editing, and export on Apple platforms.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| AVAsset canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8820859 — 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: AVAsset Context triple: [AVFoundation, coreClass, AVAsset]
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A.
AVFoundation
AVFoundation is Apple’s comprehensive framework for working with time-based audiovisual media, providing APIs for capturing, editing, processing, and playing audio and video across its platforms.
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B.
AVI
AVI (Audio Video Interleave) is a multimedia container format developed by Microsoft for storing synchronized audio and video data.
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C.
QuickTime
QuickTime is Apple’s multimedia framework and file format standard used for handling and playing digital video, audio, and interactive content across platforms.
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D.
AVS
AVS is a professional society focused on advancing the science and technology of materials, interfaces, and processing through research, education, and collaboration.
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E.
Vdio
Vdio was an online video-on-demand and streaming service launched by Skype and Rdio co-founder Janus Friis as an attempt to compete with platforms like Netflix.
- 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: AVAsset Target entity description: AVAsset is a fundamental AVFoundation class that models timed audiovisual media, providing a read-only representation of video, audio, and related metadata used for playback, editing, and export on Apple platforms.
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A.
AVFoundation
AVFoundation is Apple’s comprehensive framework for working with time-based audiovisual media, providing APIs for capturing, editing, processing, and playing audio and video across its platforms.
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B.
AVI
AVI (Audio Video Interleave) is a multimedia container format developed by Microsoft for storing synchronized audio and video data.
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C.
QuickTime
QuickTime is Apple’s multimedia framework and file format standard used for handling and playing digital video, audio, and interactive content across platforms.
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D.
AVS
AVS is a professional society focused on advancing the science and technology of materials, interfaces, and processing through research, education, and collaboration.
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E.
Vdio
Vdio was an online video-on-demand and streaming service launched by Skype and Rdio co-founder Janus Friis as an attempt to compete with platforms like Netflix.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
AVFoundation class
ⓘ
class ⓘ |
| conformsTo | NSObject ⓘ |
| creationMethod |
URLAssetWithURL:options:
ⓘ
assetWithURL: ⓘ |
| definedInFramework | AVFoundation ⓘ |
| headerFile | AVAsset.h ⓘ |
| language |
Objective-C
ⓘ
Swift ⓘ |
| module | AVFoundation ⓘ |
| platform |
Apple platforms
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple platforms APIs
iOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ tvOS ⓘ watchOS ⓘ |
| property |
availableMetadataFormats
ⓘ
duration ⓘ hasProtectedContent ⓘ isCompatibleWithSavedPhotosAlbum ⓘ isComposable ⓘ isExportable ⓘ isPlayable ⓘ isReadable ⓘ metadata ⓘ naturalSize ⓘ preferredRate ⓘ preferredTransform ⓘ preferredVolume ⓘ tracks ⓘ |
| purpose |
models timed audiovisual media
ⓘ
provides read-only representation of media ⓘ used for editing ⓘ used for export ⓘ used for playback ⓘ |
| relatedClass |
AVAssetTrack
ⓘ
AVComposition ⓘ AVMetadataItem ⓘ AVMutableComposition ⓘ AVURLAsset ⓘ |
| supportsMediaType |
audio
ⓘ
closed captions ⓘ metadata ⓘ subtitles ⓘ timed text ⓘ video ⓘ |
| supportsOperation |
asynchronous loading of values
ⓘ
key-value loading of properties ⓘ metadata inspection ⓘ track inspection ⓘ |
| supportsURLType |
HLS stream URL
ⓘ
HTTP URL ⓘ file URL ⓘ |
| threadingModel |
immutable
ⓘ
read-only ⓘ |
| usedWith |
AVAssetExportSession
ⓘ
AVAssetReader ⓘ AVAssetWriter ⓘ AVMutableComposition ⓘ AVPlayer ⓘ AVPlayerItem ⓘ |
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: AVAsset Description of subject: AVAsset is a fundamental AVFoundation class that models timed audiovisual media, providing a read-only representation of video, audio, and related metadata used for playback, editing, and export on Apple platforms.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.