VAST
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VAST (Video Ad Serving Template) is an industry-standard XML-based specification that defines how video ads are served and tracked across different video players and ad servers.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| VAST canonical | 7 |
| VAST 1.0 | 2 |
| VAST 2.0 | 2 |
| VAST 3.0 | 2 |
| VAST 4.0 | 2 |
| VAST 4.1 | 2 |
| VAST 4.2 | 2 |
| VAST 4.3 | 2 |
| VAST 2.0 added support for companion ads | 1 |
| VAST 3.0 improved tracking and introduced ad pods | 1 |
| VMAP is complementary to VAST | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T712885 — 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: VAST Context triple: [Google Ad Manager, supportsStandard, VAST]
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A.
VRA
VRA is the common abbreviation for the landmark U.S. federal law enacted in 1965 to prohibit racial discrimination in voting.
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B.
VZ
VZ is the stock ticker symbol for Verizon Communications Inc., a major U.S.-based telecommunications company providing wireless, internet, and related services.
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C.
The Vine
The Vine is a public transit service brand used by C-TRAN for its bus and related transportation services in the Vancouver, Washington area.
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D.
VELO
VELO is the high-precision vertex detector of the LHCb experiment at CERN, designed to measure particle trajectories very close to the proton–proton collision point.
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E.
Vuse
Vuse is an electronic cigarette and vaping product brand owned by British American Tobacco, known for its range of nicotine e-liquids and devices.
- 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: VAST Target entity description: VAST (Video Ad Serving Template) is an industry-standard XML-based specification that defines how video ads are served and tracked across different video players and ad servers.
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A.
VRA
VRA is the common abbreviation for the landmark U.S. federal law enacted in 1965 to prohibit racial discrimination in voting.
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B.
VZ
VZ is the stock ticker symbol for Verizon Communications Inc., a major U.S.-based telecommunications company providing wireless, internet, and related services.
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C.
The Vine
The Vine is a public transit service brand used by C-TRAN for its bus and related transportation services in the Vancouver, Washington area.
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D.
VELO
VELO is the high-precision vertex detector of the LHCb experiment at CERN, designed to measure particle trajectories very close to the proton–proton collision point.
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E.
Vuse
Vuse is an electronic cigarette and vaping product brand owned by British American Tobacco, known for its range of nicotine e-liquids and devices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IAB standard
ⓘ
digital advertising specification ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor | Video Ad Serving Template ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
OTT and CTV environments
ⓘ
ad servers ⓘ mobile video apps ⓘ video players ⓘ |
| defines |
XML schema for video ad responses
ⓘ
metadata for video ad creatives ⓘ standard tracking event URLs ⓘ |
| domain |
digital advertising
ⓘ
online video advertising ⓘ |
| formatType | XML-based specification ⓘ |
| fullName | Video Ad Serving Template ⓘ |
| goal |
ensure interoperability between different video players and ad servers
ⓘ
reduce custom integrations for video ad delivery ⓘ |
| introducedFeature |
VAST 2.0 added support for companion ads
ⓘ
linked to:
VAST
VAST 3.0 improved tracking and introduced ad pods ⓘ
linked to:
VAST
VAST 4.0 enhanced support for server-side ad insertion ⓘ VAST 4.1 refined verification and viewability support ⓘ VAST 4.2 clarified mezzanine file handling ⓘ VAST 4.3 added minor clarifications and updates ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
IAB Tech Lab
ⓘ
Interactive Advertising Bureau ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
define how video ads are served
ⓘ
define how video ads are tracked ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
SIMID
ⓘ
VMAP ⓘ VPAID ⓘ |
| supports |
ad pods
ⓘ
click tracking ⓘ error tracking ⓘ impression tracking ⓘ mezzanine files for high-quality video ⓘ quartile tracking ⓘ server-side ad insertion workflows ⓘ skippable video ads ⓘ viewability measurement hooks ⓘ |
| usedFor |
communication between ad servers and video players
ⓘ
serving companion ads ⓘ serving linear video ads ⓘ serving non-linear video ads ⓘ standardizing video ad delivery ⓘ standardizing video ad tracking ⓘ |
| version |
VAST 1.0
ⓘ
linked to:
VAST
VAST 2.0 ⓘ
linked to:
VAST
VAST 3.0 ⓘ
linked to:
VAST
VAST 4.0 ⓘ
linked to:
VAST
VAST 4.1 ⓘ
linked to:
VAST
VAST 4.2 ⓘ
linked to:
VAST
VAST 4.3 ⓘ
linked to:
VAST
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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: VAST Description of subject: VAST (Video Ad Serving Template) is an industry-standard XML-based specification that defines how video ads are served and tracked across different video players and ad servers.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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