iDVD
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iDVD was Apple's discontinued DVD-authoring application for macOS that allowed users to create and burn custom video DVDs with interactive menus and themes.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9004442 — 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: iDVD Context triple: [iPhoto, integratesWith, iDVD]
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A.
Windows DVD Maker
Windows DVD Maker is a discontinued Microsoft application that allowed users to author and burn video DVDs with menus and basic customization on Windows.
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B.
Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro is Apple's professional non-linear video editing software widely used for film, television, and content creation on macOS.
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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.
Windows Movie Maker
Windows Movie Maker is a discontinued video editing software from Microsoft that allowed users to create, edit, and share home movies on Windows.
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E.
Sorenson Video
Sorenson Video is a proprietary video compression codec widely used in the late 1990s and early 2000s for delivering high-quality, low-bitrate video, particularly in Apple’s QuickTime platform and early web streaming.
- 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: iDVD Target entity description: iDVD was Apple's discontinued DVD-authoring application for macOS that allowed users to create and burn custom video DVDs with interactive menus and themes.
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A.
Windows DVD Maker
Windows DVD Maker is a discontinued Microsoft application that allowed users to author and burn video DVDs with menus and basic customization on Windows.
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B.
Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro is Apple's professional non-linear video editing software widely used for film, television, and content creation on macOS.
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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.
Windows Movie Maker
Windows Movie Maker is a discontinued video editing software from Microsoft that allowed users to create, edit, and share home movies on Windows.
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E.
Sorenson Video
Sorenson Video is a proprietary video compression codec widely used in the late 1990s and early 2000s for delivering high-quality, low-bitrate video, particularly in Apple’s QuickTime platform and early web streaming.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
DVD authoring software
ⓘ
discontinued software ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| discontinuationDate | 2013-10-22 ⓘ |
| discontinued | true ⓘ |
| distribution |
pre-installed on some Macs
ⓘ
retail iLife box set ⓘ |
| feature |
DVD burning
ⓘ
DVD chapter creation ⓘ DVD menu authoring ⓘ background music for menus ⓘ customizable buttons and text ⓘ drop zones for photos and videos ⓘ encoding of video to MPEG-2 ⓘ integration with iMovie ⓘ integration with iPhoto ⓘ integration with iTunes ⓘ interactive DVD menus ⓘ map view of DVD navigation ⓘ motion menus ⓘ professional-quality themes ⓘ region-free project authoring ⓘ slideshows ⓘ support for standard 4:3 DVDs ⓘ support for widescreen 16:9 DVDs ⓘ themed menu templates ⓘ |
| genre | DVD authoring ⓘ |
| includedIn |
iLife
ⓘ
iLife ’11 ⓘ
linked to:
iLife
|
| initialReleaseDate | 2001-01-09 ⓘ |
| initialReleaseEvent |
Macworld Conference & Expo 2001
ⓘ
linked to:
Macworld Expo
|
| language |
English
ⓘ
multiple localized languages ⓘ |
| latestReleaseDate | 2011-07-11 ⓘ |
| latestReleaseVersion | 7.1.2 ⓘ |
| license | proprietary software ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Mac OS X
ⓘ
linked to:
macOS
macOS ⓘ |
| platform |
Macintosh
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple Macintosh computers
|
| previouslyBundledWith | new Macs with SuperDrive ⓘ |
| replacedBy | no direct successor ⓘ |
| requires | Mac with a SuperDrive for burning ⓘ |
| supportedMediaType |
DVD+R
ⓘ
DVD+RW ⓘ DVD-R ⓘ DVD-RW ⓘ DVD-Video ⓘ |
| website | https://www.apple.com/ilife/idvd/ ⓘ |
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: iDVD Description of subject: iDVD was Apple's discontinued DVD-authoring application for macOS that allowed users to create and burn custom video DVDs with interactive menus and themes.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: iDVD