Windows SDK

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Microsoft software product software development kit

Windows SDK is Microsoft's official collection of tools, headers, libraries, and documentation used by developers to build applications for the Windows operating system.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Microsoft Platform SDK	2
Windows SDK canonical	2
Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit	1
Windows development framework	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1719475 — 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: Windows SDK
Context triple: [Win32 API, distribution, Windows SDK]

A. Win32 API
Win32 API is Microsoft's core programming interface for developing native desktop applications that interact directly with the Windows operating system.
B. Windows App SDK
Windows App SDK is a unified set of developer tools and APIs for building modern Windows desktop applications with consistent UI, app model, and system integration across different Windows versions.
C. 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.
D. Microsoft Foundation Classes
Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) is an object-oriented C++ library from Microsoft that simplifies the development of Windows desktop applications by wrapping the Windows API in reusable classes.
E. Microsoft APIs
Microsoft APIs are a collection of programmable interfaces and services provided by Microsoft that allow developers to integrate, extend, and interact with Microsoft platforms, applications, and cloud offerings.
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: Windows SDK
Target entity description: Windows SDK is Microsoft's official collection of tools, headers, libraries, and documentation used by developers to build applications for the Windows operating system.

A. Win32 API
Win32 API is Microsoft's core programming interface for developing native desktop applications that interact directly with the Windows operating system.
B. Windows App SDK
Windows App SDK is a unified set of developer tools and APIs for building modern Windows desktop applications with consistent UI, app model, and system integration across different Windows versions.
C. 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.
D. Microsoft Foundation Classes
Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) is an object-oriented C++ library from Microsoft that simplifies the development of Windows desktop applications by wrapping the Windows API in reusable classes.
E. Microsoft APIs
Microsoft APIs are a collection of programmable interfaces and services provided by Microsoft that allow developers to integrate, extend, and interact with Microsoft platforms, applications, and cloud offerings.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Microsoft software product ⓘ software development kit ⓘ
canBeInstalled	as a standalone package ⓘ
component	.NET reference assemblies for Windows APIs ⓘ Windows App Certification Kit ⓘ Windows Metadata (.winmd) files ⓘ Windows Performance Toolkit ⓘ Windows headers for C/C++ ⓘ command-line tools ⓘ debugging tools ⓘ documentation in CHM or online format ⓘ import libraries for Windows APIs ⓘ linker and build tools ⓘ
developer	Microsoft ⓘ
distributedWith	Visual Studio ⓘ
formerlyKnownAs	SDKs ⓘ surface form: Platform SDK
includes	documentation ⓘ headers ⓘ libraries ⓘ sample code ⓘ tools ⓘ
license	freeware ⓘ proprietary ⓘ
maintainedBy	Microsoft Windows Developer Platform team ⓘ
operatingSystem	Windows ⓘ
purpose	to develop applications for the Windows operating system ⓘ
supports	COM-based Windows APIs ⓘ WinUI ⓘ surface form: WinUI APIs Windows security and cryptography APIs ⓘ
supportsArchitecture	ARM ⓘ ARM64 ⓘ x64 ⓘ x86 ⓘ
supportsProgrammingLanguage	.NET languages ⓘ C ⓘ C# programming language ⓘ surface form: C# C++ ⓘ Visual Basic .NET ⓘ
targetPlatform	.NET 5 and later ⓘ .NET Core ⓘ .NET Framework ⓘ Universal Windows Platform ⓘ Win32 API ⓘ Win32 API ⓘ surface form: Windows API WinRT ⓘ surface form: Windows Runtime
usedFor	developing UWP applications ⓘ developing Windows Store apps ⓘ developing Windows services ⓘ developing desktop applications ⓘ developing drivers in conjunction with WDK ⓘ
versioning	aligned with Windows versions ⓘ
website	https://developer.microsoft.com/windows ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Win32 API → distribution → Windows SDK ⓘ

DirectX → distribution → Windows SDK ⓘ

Component Object Model → documentation → Windows SDK ⓘ

this entity surface form: Microsoft Platform SDK

COM → documentation → Windows SDK ⓘ

this entity surface form: Microsoft Platform SDK

Win16 API → documentation → Windows SDK ⓘ

this entity surface form: Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit

C++/WinRT → category → Windows SDK ⓘ

this entity surface form: Windows development framework

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