WMV
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WMV (Windows Media Video) is a series of Microsoft-developed video compression formats commonly used for streaming and storing digital video on Windows platforms.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Windows Media Video | 9 |
| WMV canonical | 7 |
| Windows Media Video 9 | 2 |
| WMV 9 | 1 |
| Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1719928 — 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: WMV Context triple: [DirectShow, supportsFormat, WMV]
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A.
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player is Microsoft’s built-in multimedia application for playing audio, video, and streaming media on Windows operating systems.
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B.
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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C.
H.264
H.264 is a widely used video compression standard known for delivering high-quality video at relatively low bitrates, commonly employed in streaming, broadcasting, and video recording.
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D.
FLAC
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an open-source audio compression format that reduces file size without any loss in sound quality, commonly used for high-fidelity music archiving and playback.
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E.
MPG
MPG is the commonly used abbreviation for the Max Planck Society, Germany’s leading network of research institutes in the natural sciences, life sciences, and humanities.
- 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: WMV Target entity description: WMV (Windows Media Video) is a series of Microsoft-developed video compression formats commonly used for streaming and storing digital video on Windows platforms.
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A.
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player is Microsoft’s built-in multimedia application for playing audio, video, and streaming media on Windows operating systems.
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B.
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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C.
H.264
H.264 is a widely used video compression standard known for delivering high-quality video at relatively low bitrates, commonly employed in streaming, broadcasting, and video recording.
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D.
FLAC
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an open-source audio compression format that reduces file size without any loss in sound quality, commonly used for high-fidelity music archiving and playback.
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E.
MPG
MPG is the commonly used abbreviation for the Max Planck Society, Germany’s leading network of research institutes in the natural sciences, life sciences, and humanities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Windows Media Video format family
ⓘ
video compression format ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Microsoft Silverlight
ⓘ
linked to:
Silverlight
Windows Media Encoder ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Media
Windows Media Player ⓘ |
| basedOn | Advanced Systems Format ⓘ |
| category |
Microsoft proprietary format
ⓘ
multimedia format ⓘ video codec ⓘ |
| competesWith |
H.264
ⓘ
MPEG-4 Part 2 ⓘ RealVideo ⓘ |
| compressionType | lossy compression ⓘ |
| containerFilenameExtension |
.asf
ⓘ
.wmv ⓘ |
| designedFor |
Windows platform
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
internet streaming ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| encodingLibrary |
Windows Media Format SDK
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Media
|
| fileFormatType | video ⓘ |
| hasSubtype |
VC-1
ⓘ
WMV 7 ⓘ WMV 8 ⓘ WMV 9 ⓘ
linked to:
WMV
WMV Image ⓘ WMV Screen ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Microsoft in 1999 ⓘ |
| mimeType |
video/x-ms-asf
ⓘ
video/x-ms-wmv ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Microsoft Windows
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
|
| owner | Microsoft ⓘ |
| partOf | Windows Media ⓘ |
| playbackSoftware |
MPlayer
ⓘ
VLC media player ⓘ Windows Media Player ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | SMPTE ⓘ |
| successorOf | older Microsoft proprietary video codecs ⓘ |
| supports |
constant bitrate encoding
ⓘ
digital rights management ⓘ two-pass encoding ⓘ variable bitrate encoding ⓘ |
| typicallyContainedIn | ASF container ⓘ |
| usedFor |
digital video compression
ⓘ
video storage ⓘ video streaming ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Windows-based media services
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Media
downloadable video files ⓘ online video distribution ⓘ |
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: WMV Description of subject: WMV (Windows Media Video) is a series of Microsoft-developed video compression formats commonly used for streaming and storing digital video on Windows platforms.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: WMV
linked to: WMV
linked to: WMV
linked to: WMV
linked to: WMV
linked to: WMV
linked to: WMV
linked to: WMV
linked to: WMV
linked to: WMV
linked to: WMV