FLAC
E163320
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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FLAC canonical | 3 |
| Free Lossless Audio Codec | 2 |
| Vorbis comments | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1429736 — 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: FLAC Context triple: [Adobe Audition, fileFormatSupport, FLAC]
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A.
ALAC
ALAC is the At-Large Advisory Committee within ICANN that represents the interests of individual Internet users in global domain name policy development.
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B.
Dolby TrueHD
Dolby TrueHD is a lossless multichannel audio codec designed for high-definition home entertainment formats like Blu-ray to deliver studio-quality surround sound.
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C.
FAT
FAT is the commonly used abbreviation for the FA Trophy, an English football knockout competition for non-league clubs.
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D.
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital is a multichannel digital audio encoding system widely used in cinema, home theater, and broadcast to deliver surround sound.
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E.
ISO 9660
ISO 9660 is an international standard file system format primarily used for optical disc media such as CD-ROMs to ensure cross-platform data compatibility.
- 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: FLAC Target entity description: 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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A.
ALAC
ALAC is the At-Large Advisory Committee within ICANN that represents the interests of individual Internet users in global domain name policy development.
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B.
Dolby TrueHD
Dolby TrueHD is a lossless multichannel audio codec designed for high-definition home entertainment formats like Blu-ray to deliver studio-quality surround sound.
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C.
FAT
FAT is the commonly used abbreviation for the FA Trophy, an English football knockout competition for non-league clubs.
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D.
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital is a multichannel digital audio encoding system widely used in cinema, home theater, and broadcast to deliver surround sound.
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E.
ISO 9660
ISO 9660 is an international standard file system format primarily used for optical disc media such as CD-ROMs to ensure cross-platform data compatibility.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: FLAC Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Google Play Music
this entity surface form:
Free Lossless Audio Codec
this entity surface form:
Free Lossless Audio Codec
this entity surface form:
Vorbis comments