VC-1
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VC-1 is a video compression standard developed by Microsoft and standardized by SMPTE, widely used for high-definition content such as on Blu-ray Discs and HD DVD.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| VC-1 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1934691 — 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: VC-1 Context triple: [Blu-ray Disc, supportsVideoCodec, VC-1]
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A.
Voyager KC2
Voyager KC2 is an Airbus A330-based multi-role tanker transport aircraft used by the Royal Air Force for air-to-air refuelling and strategic airlift operations.
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B.
VA-11
VA-11 is the commonly used shorthand for Virginia's 11th congressional district, a U.S. House of Representatives district located in Northern Virginia.
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C.
D.V.I.
D.V.I. is the standard abbreviation for the District Court of the Virgin Islands, a federal court with jurisdiction over the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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D.
.vc
.vc is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, often also used creatively for various commercial and personal websites.
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E.
VC
VC is the post-nominal abbreviation for the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valor "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries and former British Empire territories.
- 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: VC-1 Target entity description: VC-1 is a video compression standard developed by Microsoft and standardized by SMPTE, widely used for high-definition content such as on Blu-ray Discs and HD DVD.
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A.
Voyager KC2
Voyager KC2 is an Airbus A330-based multi-role tanker transport aircraft used by the Royal Air Force for air-to-air refuelling and strategic airlift operations.
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B.
VA-11
VA-11 is the commonly used shorthand for Virginia's 11th congressional district, a U.S. House of Representatives district located in Northern Virginia.
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C.
D.V.I.
D.V.I. is the standard abbreviation for the District Court of the Virgin Islands, a federal court with jurisdiction over the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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D.
.vc
.vc is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, often also used creatively for various commercial and personal websites.
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E.
VC
VC is the post-nominal abbreviation for the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valor "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries and former British Empire territories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
video codec
ⓘ
video compression standard ⓘ |
| application |
high-definition video
ⓘ
optical disc video ⓘ streaming media ⓘ |
| basedOn |
WMV
ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Media Video 9
|
| category |
digital video codec
ⓘ
video compression ⓘ |
| competesWith |
H.264
ⓘ
surface form:
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
MPEG-4 Part 2 ⓘ |
| compressionGoal | high compression efficiency for HD content ⓘ |
| compressionType | lossy compression ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| entropyCodingMethod | variable-length coding ⓘ |
| fileFormatSupport |
Blu-ray Disc format
ⓘ
surface form:
Blu-ray Disc
HD DVD ⓘ |
| fullName | SMPTE 421M ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| mediaType | video ⓘ |
| origin | proprietary Microsoft technology standardized by SMPTE ⓘ |
| region | international standard ⓘ |
| standardBody | Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
ⓘ
surface form:
SMPTE
|
| standardNumber | SMPTE 421M ⓘ |
| standardType | open standard ⓘ |
| supports |
B-frames
ⓘ
advanced profile ⓘ bitrate scalability ⓘ chroma subsampling 4:2:0 ⓘ entropy coding ⓘ error resilience features ⓘ frame rates up to 60 Hz ⓘ in-loop deblocking filter ⓘ interlaced video ⓘ luma resolutions up to 1920x1080 ⓘ main profile ⓘ multiple reference frames ⓘ progressive video ⓘ quarter-pixel motion compensation ⓘ simple profile ⓘ variable block-size motion compensation ⓘ |
| targetUse |
broadcast video
ⓘ
internet streaming ⓘ optical media ⓘ |
| usedIn |
WMV
ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile
|
| useOn |
Blu-ray Disc video titles
ⓘ
HD DVD video titles ⓘ |
| videoCodingType | block-based hybrid video coding ⓘ |
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: VC-1 Description of subject: VC-1 is a video compression standard developed by Microsoft and standardized by SMPTE, widely used for high-definition content such as on Blu-ray Discs and HD DVD.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Blu-ray Disc