Dolby Laboratories
E11234
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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dolby Laboratories canonical | 38 |
| Dolby | 14 |
| Dolby noise reduction | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T93330 — 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: Dolby Laboratories Context triple: [Ray Dolby, notableFor, Dolby Laboratories]
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A.
Dolby Stereo
Dolby Stereo is a multichannel optical sound system for film that brought high-fidelity, surround-capable audio to movie theaters in the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Ampex
Ampex is an American electronics company renowned for pioneering professional audio and video tape recording technology.
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C.
Ray Dolby
Ray Dolby was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering noise reduction and surround sound technologies that revolutionized the audio industry.
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D.
RCA
RCA (Radio Corporation of America) was a major American electronics and communications company that played a pivotal role in the development and commercialization of radio and television technology in the 20th century.
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E.
Adobe Inc.
Adobe Inc. is a multinational software company best known for its creative and multimedia products such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat, widely used in digital media and design industries.
- 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: Dolby Laboratories Target entity description: 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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A.
Dolby Stereo
Dolby Stereo is a multichannel optical sound system for film that brought high-fidelity, surround-capable audio to movie theaters in the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Ampex
Ampex is an American electronics company renowned for pioneering professional audio and video tape recording technology.
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C.
Ray Dolby
Ray Dolby was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering noise reduction and surround sound technologies that revolutionized the audio industry.
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D.
RCA
RCA (Radio Corporation of America) was a major American electronics and communications company that played a pivotal role in the development and commercialization of radio and television technology in the 20th century.
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E.
Adobe Inc.
Adobe Inc. is a multinational software company best known for its creative and multimedia products such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat, widely used in digital media and design industries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
audio technology company
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company ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| brand |
Dolby Laboratories
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Dolby
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fieldOfWork |
audio engineering
ⓘ
cinema sound systems ⓘ signal processing ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Ray Dolby ⓘ |
| foundedIn |
London, England
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surface form:
London, United Kingdom
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| founder | Ray Dolby ⓘ |
| hasTechnologyIn |
PCs
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cinemas ⓘ game consoles ⓘ home theater systems ⓘ smartphones ⓘ streaming services ⓘ televisions ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California
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| inception | 1965 ⓘ |
| industry |
audio technology
ⓘ
cinema technology ⓘ consumer electronics ⓘ |
| movedHeadquartersTo |
San Francisco
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California
|
| notableFor |
Dolby Atmos object-based audio
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Dolby Vision ⓘ
surface form:
Dolby Vision high dynamic range video
Dolby A-type noise reduction ⓘ
surface form:
Dolby noise reduction system
|
| products |
Dolby Digital
ⓘ
surface form:
Dolby AC-3
Dolby Atmos ⓘ Dolby Cinema ⓘ Dolby Digital ⓘ Dolby Digital ⓘ
surface form:
Dolby Digital Plus
Dolby Headphone ⓘ Dolby A-type noise reduction ⓘ
surface form:
Dolby Noise Reduction
Dolby Stereo ⓘ Dolby Stereo ⓘ
surface form:
Dolby Surround
Dolby TrueHD ⓘ Dolby Vision ⓘ |
| serves |
film industry
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gaming industry ⓘ home entertainment market ⓘ mobile device manufacturers ⓘ music industry ⓘ television industry ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
audio compression
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audio noise reduction ⓘ spatial audio ⓘ surround sound ⓘ |
| tradedAs | NYSE:DLB ⓘ |
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: Dolby Laboratories Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (53)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dolby
this entity surface form:
Dolby