Gdi32
E193832
Gdi32 is a core Windows graphics library that provides functions for drawing text, shapes, and images and managing graphical device interfaces in the Win32 API.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BitBlt | 1 |
| CreateCompatibleBitmap | 1 |
| ExtTextOut | 1 |
| GDI | 1 |
| GDI.EXE | 1 |
| Gdi32 canonical | 1 |
| StretchBlt | 1 |
| Windows GDI subsystem | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1719458 — 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: Gdi32 Context triple: [Win32 API, component, Gdi32]
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A.
Win32 API
Win32 API is Microsoft's core programming interface for developing native desktop applications that interact directly with the Windows operating system.
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B.
DIB
DIB is the IATA airport code for Dibrugarh Airport, which serves the city of Dibrugarh in the Indian state of Assam.
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C.
GKS
GKS is a Polish vehicle registration code assigned to the Słupsk area in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
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D.
DirectX
DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Microsoft that enables high-performance handling of graphics, sound, and other multimedia tasks, especially for games, on Windows platforms.
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E.
BMP
BMP is the Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode, the primary block of code points that encodes the most commonly used characters from modern and many historic writing systems.
- 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: Gdi32 Target entity description: Gdi32 is a core Windows graphics library that provides functions for drawing text, shapes, and images and managing graphical device interfaces in the Win32 API.
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A.
Win32 API
Win32 API is Microsoft's core programming interface for developing native desktop applications that interact directly with the Windows operating system.
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B.
DIB
DIB is the IATA airport code for Dibrugarh Airport, which serves the city of Dibrugarh in the Indian state of Assam.
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C.
GKS
GKS is a Polish vehicle registration code assigned to the Słupsk area in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
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D.
DirectX
DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Microsoft that enables high-performance handling of graphics, sound, and other multimedia tasks, especially for games, on Windows platforms.
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E.
BMP
BMP is the Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode, the primary block of code points that encodes the most commonly used characters from modern and many historic writing systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Win32 API component
ⓘ
Windows graphics library ⓘ dynamic-link library ⓘ |
| exportsConcept |
bitmap
ⓘ
brush ⓘ device context ⓘ logical font ⓘ pen ⓘ region ⓘ |
| exportsFunction |
Gdi32
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
BitBlt
Gdi32 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
CreateCompatibleBitmap
CreateCompatibleDC ⓘ CreateFont ⓘ CreatePen ⓘ CreateSolidBrush ⓘ DeleteObject ⓘ Ellipse ⓘ Gdi32 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
ExtTextOut
GetDeviceCaps ⓘ LineTo ⓘ MoveToEx ⓘ Rectangle ⓘ SelectObject ⓘ SetBkMode ⓘ SetTextColor ⓘ Gdi32 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
StretchBlt
TextOut ⓘ |
| hasFileName | gdi32.dll ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
User32
ⓘ
win32k.sys ⓘ |
| layerOf | user-mode graphics stack ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Windows
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
|
| partOf |
Win32 API
ⓘ
Gdi32 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Windows GDI subsystem
|
| primaryArchitecture |
x86
ⓘ
x86-64 ⓘ |
| providesFunctionality |
2D graphics rendering
ⓘ
bitmap operations ⓘ clipping operations ⓘ coordinate transformations ⓘ device context management ⓘ font management ⓘ image drawing ⓘ palette management ⓘ pen and brush management ⓘ region management ⓘ shape drawing ⓘ text rendering ⓘ |
| supportsAPIStyle | C calling conventions ⓘ |
| supportsProgrammingModel | procedural C API ⓘ |
| usedBy |
.NET applications via interop
ⓘ
game engines using Win32 ⓘ native Windows desktop applications ⓘ |
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: Gdi32 Description of subject: Gdi32 is a core Windows graphics library that provides functions for drawing text, shapes, and images and managing graphical device interfaces in the Win32 API.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
GDI.EXE
this entity surface form:
ExtTextOut
this entity surface form:
BitBlt
this entity surface form:
StretchBlt
this entity surface form:
CreateCompatibleBitmap