Avid Technology
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Avid Technology is an American company known for developing professional audio and video editing tools widely used in film, television, and music production.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Avid Technology canonical | 11 |
| Avid | 2 |
| Emagic | 2 |
| Avid Symphony | 1 |
| Avid software | 1 |
| Digidesign | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11380470 — 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: Avid Technology Context triple: [Avid Media Composer, developer, Avid Technology]
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A.
Steinberg
Steinberg is a small settlement in Norway situated along the Drammenselva river, known for its riverside location and local railway station.
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B.
Steinberg
Steinberg is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as music, art, business, and politics.
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C.
Steinberg
Steinberg is a locality within the town of Wadern in the Saarland region of Germany.
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D.
Pro Tools
Pro Tools is the 2008 studio album by Wu-Tang Clan member GZA, known for its dense lyricism and intricate wordplay.
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E.
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.
- 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: Avid Technology Target entity description: Avid Technology is an American company known for developing professional audio and video editing tools widely used in film, television, and music production.
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A.
Steinberg
Steinberg is a small settlement in Norway situated along the Drammenselva river, known for its riverside location and local railway station.
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B.
Steinberg
Steinberg is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as music, art, business, and politics.
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C.
Steinberg
Steinberg is a locality within the town of Wadern in the Saarland region of Germany.
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D.
Pro Tools
Pro Tools is the 2008 studio album by Wu-Tang Clan member GZA, known for its dense lyricism and intricate wordplay.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
audio technology company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ software company ⓘ video technology company ⓘ |
| acquired |
Digidesign
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linked to:
Avid Technology
M-Audio ⓘ Pinnacle Systems ⓘ Sibelius Software ⓘ Softimage ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| develops |
media asset management systems
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professional audio editing software ⓘ professional video editing software ⓘ shared storage systems for media production ⓘ |
| formerlyHeadquarteredIn | Tewksbury, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Bill Warner ⓘ |
| foundedIn | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| hasCustomerSegment |
educational institutions
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film production studios ⓘ live sound companies ⓘ music recording studios ⓘ television networks ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Burlington, Massachusetts
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linked to:
Burlington, Massachusetts, United States
|
| inception | 1987 ⓘ |
| industry |
audio software
ⓘ
broadcast technology ⓘ media technology ⓘ video software ⓘ |
| knownFor |
digital audio workstations
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integrated media production workflows ⓘ non-linear video editing systems ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
Avid DS
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Avid Interplay ⓘ
linked to:
Avid MediaCentral
Avid Media Composer ⓘ Avid NEXIS ⓘ
linked to:
Avid Nexis
Avid NewsCutter ⓘ
linked to:
Avid Media Composer
Avid S1 control surface ⓘ
linked to:
Avid S3 control surface
Avid S3 control surface ⓘ Avid S4 control surface ⓘ Avid S6 control surface ⓘ Avid Symphony ⓘ Pro Tools ⓘ Sibelius ⓘ VENUE ⓘ |
| primaryUsers |
audio engineers
ⓘ
broadcast networks ⓘ film editors ⓘ music producers ⓘ post-production facilities ⓘ television editors ⓘ |
| tradedAs | Nasdaq:AVID ⓘ |
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: Avid Technology Description of subject: Avid Technology is an American company known for developing professional audio and video editing tools widely used in film, television, and music production.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Avid Technology
linked to: Avid Technology
linked to: Avid Technology
linked to: Avid Technology
subject linked to:
Avid Nexis
linked to: Avid Technology
linked to: Avid Technology