Digital Theater Systems, Inc.
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Digital Theater Systems, Inc. is an audio technology company best known for creating the DTS multi-channel surround sound format widely used in cinemas, home theaters, and consumer electronics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Digital Theater Systems, Inc. canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9002182 — 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: Digital Theater Systems, Inc. Context triple: [DTS, developedBy, Digital Theater Systems, Inc.]
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A.
Cinecom Entertainment Group
Cinecom Entertainment Group was an American independent film distribution company known for releasing acclaimed art-house and foreign films during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Magna Theatre Corporation
Magna Theatre Corporation was a mid-20th-century American film production company best known for producing large-scale widescreen musical adaptations such as the 1955 film version of "Oklahoma!".
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C.
Cinema International Corporation
Cinema International Corporation was a major international film distribution company formed by the joint venture of major Hollywood studios to handle the overseas release of their movies in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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D.
Dolby Laboratories
Dolby Laboratories is an American company renowned for pioneering audio noise reduction and surround sound technologies used in cinemas, home entertainment, and consumer electronics worldwide.
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E.
Cinemastar
Cinemastar is a line of hard disk drives produced by HGST, typically designed for consumer and multimedia applications.
- 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: Digital Theater Systems, Inc. Target entity description: Digital Theater Systems, Inc. is an audio technology company best known for creating the DTS multi-channel surround sound format widely used in cinemas, home theaters, and consumer electronics.
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A.
Cinecom Entertainment Group
Cinecom Entertainment Group was an American independent film distribution company known for releasing acclaimed art-house and foreign films during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Magna Theatre Corporation
Magna Theatre Corporation was a mid-20th-century American film production company best known for producing large-scale widescreen musical adaptations such as the 1955 film version of "Oklahoma!".
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C.
Cinema International Corporation
Cinema International Corporation was a major international film distribution company formed by the joint venture of major Hollywood studios to handle the overseas release of their movies in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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D.
Dolby Laboratories
Dolby Laboratories is an American company renowned for pioneering audio noise reduction and surround sound technologies used in cinemas, home entertainment, and consumer electronics worldwide.
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E.
Cinemastar
Cinemastar is a line of hard disk drives produced by HGST, typically designed for consumer and multimedia applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
audio technology company
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corporation ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | DTS ⓘ |
| competesWith |
Dolby Digital
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Dolby Laboratories ⓘ Dolby TrueHD ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| field |
digital audio encoding
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surround sound ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
high‑definition audio
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immersive audio ⓘ multi‑channel audio ⓘ spatial audio ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
lossless surround sound codec
ⓘ
lossy surround sound codec ⓘ |
| industry |
audio technology
ⓘ
consumer electronics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
audio codecs for optical discs
ⓘ
audio solutions for streaming and broadcast ⓘ cinema surround sound systems ⓘ home theater surround sound formats ⓘ |
| notableWork |
DTS multi‑channel surround sound format
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linked to:
DTS Digital Surround
|
| product |
DTS Headphone:X
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linked to:
DTS
DTS Neo:6 ⓘ DTS Play‑Fi ⓘ
linked to:
DTS Play-Fi
DTS Virtual:X ⓘ DTS digital surround sound ⓘ DTS-HD High Resolution Audio ⓘ
linked to:
DTS-HD Master Audio
DTS:X ⓘ DTS‑ES ⓘ
linked to:
DTS Digital Surround
DTS‑HD Master Audio ⓘ
linked to:
DTS-HD Master Audio
|
| targetMarket |
AV receiver manufacturers
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cinema exhibitors ⓘ consumer electronics manufacturers ⓘ content distributors ⓘ film studios ⓘ music and game publishers ⓘ |
| technologyUsedIn |
Blu‑ray Disc players
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linked to:
Blu-ray Disc format
DVD players ⓘ PC audio systems ⓘ cinemas ⓘ game consoles ⓘ home theater receivers ⓘ mobile devices ⓘ set‑top boxes ⓘ soundbars ⓘ televisions ⓘ |
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: Digital Theater Systems, Inc. Description of subject: Digital Theater Systems, Inc. is an audio technology company best known for creating the DTS multi-channel surround sound format widely used in cinemas, home theaters, and consumer electronics.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.