Shockwave Player
E637134
Shockwave Player is a browser plug-in developed by Adobe for playing multimedia content, interactive applications, and games created with Adobe Director.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adobe Shockwave | 2 |
| Shockwave Player canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7033622 — 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: Shockwave Player Context triple: [Shockwave, requires, Shockwave Player]
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A.
Audion
Audion is an early triode vacuum tube invented by Lee de Forest that enabled the amplification of electrical signals and was crucial to the development of radio and electronics.
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B.
The Sound Factory
The Sound Factory is a renowned Los Angeles recording studio known for hosting sessions by prominent jazz and rock artists, including Charles Mingus.
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C.
Soundwave
Soundwave is a Decepticon from the Transformers franchise, known for his cold, calculating loyalty to Megatron and his ability to deploy smaller cassette-like minions for espionage and combat.
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D.
Diskit
Diskit is a remote village in India’s Ladakh region, known for its ancient Diskit Monastery and dramatic views over the Nubra Valley.
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E.
Discman
Discman is Sony’s line of portable CD players that succeeded the cassette-based Walkman as a popular personal audio device.
- 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: Shockwave Player Target entity description: Shockwave Player is a browser plug-in developed by Adobe for playing multimedia content, interactive applications, and games created with Adobe Director.
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A.
Audion
Audion is an early triode vacuum tube invented by Lee de Forest that enabled the amplification of electrical signals and was crucial to the development of radio and electronics.
-
B.
The Sound Factory
The Sound Factory is a renowned Los Angeles recording studio known for hosting sessions by prominent jazz and rock artists, including Charles Mingus.
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C.
Soundwave
Soundwave is a Decepticon from the Transformers franchise, known for his cold, calculating loyalty to Megatron and his ability to deploy smaller cassette-like minions for espionage and combat.
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D.
Diskit
Diskit is a remote village in India’s Ladakh region, known for its ancient Diskit Monastery and dramatic views over the Nubra Valley.
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E.
Discman
Discman is Sony’s line of portable CD players that succeeded the cassette-based Walkman as a popular personal audio device.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
browser plug-in
ⓘ
multimedia player software ⓘ |
| acquisition | Macromedia acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005 ⓘ |
| alternativeTo | HTML5-based web multimedia ⓘ |
| category |
multimedia framework
ⓘ
web browser plugin ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
Google Chrome (older versions)
ⓘ
linked to:
Google Chrome
Internet Explorer ⓘ Mozilla Firefox ⓘ Netscape Navigator ⓘ Safari ⓘ |
| developer |
Adobe Systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Adobe Inc.
Macromedia ⓘ |
| discontinuationDate | 2019-04-09 ⓘ |
| discontinuedBy |
Adobe Systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Adobe Inc.
|
| distributionModel | freeware ⓘ |
| fileFormat |
DCR
ⓘ
DIR ⓘ DXR ⓘ |
| license | proprietary software ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | Macromedia ⓘ |
| owner |
Adobe Systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Adobe Inc.
|
| platform |
Microsoft Windows
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
macOS ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Adobe Director
ⓘ
Adobe Flash Player ⓘ
linked to:
Flash (software)
Adobe Shockwave ⓘ
linked to:
Shockwave Player
|
| requires |
Adobe Director content
ⓘ
web browser ⓘ |
| security | had multiple security vulnerabilities ⓘ |
| status | discontinued ⓘ |
| supports |
3D content
ⓘ
Adobe Director ⓘ DCR files ⓘ Macromedia Director ⓘ
linked to:
Adobe Director
audio ⓘ interactive multimedia content ⓘ online games ⓘ raster graphics ⓘ vector graphics ⓘ video ⓘ |
| technology |
Lingo scripting language
ⓘ
Xtras plug-in architecture ⓘ |
| usedFor |
browser games
ⓘ
e-learning content ⓘ interactive presentations ⓘ web-based multimedia ⓘ |
| website | https://get.adobe.com/shockwave/ (historical) ⓘ |
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: Shockwave Player Description of subject: Shockwave Player is a browser plug-in developed by Adobe for playing multimedia content, interactive applications, and games created with Adobe Director.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shockwave Player
linked to: Shockwave Player