PS
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PS (PostScript) is a page description language and vector graphics format commonly used for high-quality printing and document rendering.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| PS canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T816594 — 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: PS Context triple: [Matplotlib, supportsFormat, PS]
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A.
PS
PS is a high-energy circular particle accelerator at CERN used to boost protons and other particles for physics experiments.
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B.
PS
PS is a major French-speaking Belgian socialist party that played a key role as one of the governing partners in the Vivaldi coalition under Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.
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C.
PS
PS is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code assigned to the State of Palestine, used in international standards and country designation.
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D.
PS
PS is a major Portuguese political party traditionally associated with social democracy and center-left policies.
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E.
SP
SP is the official aircraft registration prefix used to identify airplanes registered in Poland.
- 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: PS Target entity description: PS (PostScript) is a page description language and vector graphics format commonly used for high-quality printing and document rendering.
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A.
PS
PS is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code assigned to the State of Palestine, used in international standards and country designation.
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B.
PS
PS is a major Portuguese political party traditionally associated with social democracy and center-left policies.
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C.
PS
PS is a high-energy circular particle accelerator at CERN used to boost protons and other particles for physics experiments.
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D.
PS
PS is a major French-speaking Belgian socialist party that played a key role as one of the governing partners in the Vivaldi coalition under Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.
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E.
SP
SP is the official aircraft registration prefix used to identify airplanes registered in Poland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
page description language
ⓘ
programming language ⓘ vector graphics format ⓘ |
| abbreviation | PS ⓘ |
| designedFor | device-independent page description ⓘ |
| developer |
Adobe Systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Adobe Inc.
|
| executionModel | stack-based ⓘ |
| fileExtension |
.eps
ⓘ
.ps ⓘ |
| firstReleased | 1984 ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
graphics state
ⓘ
imaging model ⓘ interpreter ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
PostScript 3
ⓘ
linked to:
PostScript
PostScript Level 1 ⓘ
linked to:
PostScript
PostScript Level 2 ⓘ
linked to:
PostScript
|
| influenced |
Display PostScript
ⓘ
linked to:
PostScript
Ghostscript ⓘ PCL ⓘ PDF ⓘ
linked to:
Portable Document Format
|
| influencedBy |
Forth
ⓘ
page description concepts from Xerox PARC ⓘ |
| introduced | 1980s ⓘ |
| paradigm | concatenative programming ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
document rendering
ⓘ
high-quality printing ⓘ |
| relatedFormat |
Encapsulated PostScript
ⓘ
linked to:
PostScript
|
| standardizedBy |
Adobe Systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Adobe Inc.
|
| supports |
Bezier curves
ⓘ
bitmap graphics ⓘ clipping paths ⓘ color management ⓘ device-independent coordinates ⓘ font embedding ⓘ halftone screening ⓘ raster image embedding ⓘ text layout ⓘ transformation matrices ⓘ vector graphics ⓘ |
| supportsColorSpaces |
DeviceCMYK
ⓘ
DeviceGray ⓘ DeviceRGB ⓘ |
| typicalMIMEType | application/postscript ⓘ |
| usedFor |
desktop publishing
ⓘ
typesetting ⓘ vector illustration output ⓘ |
| usedIn |
imagesetters
ⓘ
laser printers ⓘ prepress workflows ⓘ |
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: PS Description of subject: PS (PostScript) is a page description language and vector graphics format commonly used for high-quality printing and document rendering.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.