Trinitron
E41412
Trinitron is Sony’s line of high-quality aperture grille cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays, renowned for their sharp image, bright colors, and widespread use in televisions and computer monitors from the late 1960s onward.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sony Trinitron CRTs | 2 |
| Trinitron canonical | 2 |
| FD Trinitron | 1 |
| Sony BVM series monitors | 1 |
| Sony GDM series monitors | 1 |
| Sony PVM series monitors | 1 |
| Sony Trinitron | 1 |
| Sony Trinitron color television receiver | 1 |
| Trinitron WEGA | 1 |
| Trinitron color television receiver | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T321437 — 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: Trinitron Context triple: [Sony, brand, Trinitron]
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A.
NTSC color television standard
The NTSC color television standard is an analog broadcast system developed in the United States that defined how color video signals were encoded and transmitted for decades of North American television.
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B.
Philco
Philco was a pioneering American electronics manufacturer best known for its radios, televisions, and early computer and semiconductor technologies.
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C.
Ampex
Ampex is an American electronics company renowned for pioneering professional audio and video tape recording technology.
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D.
Sharp X68000
The Sharp X68000 is a Japanese home computer and gaming system from the late 1980s and early 1990s, renowned for its advanced graphics and sound capabilities that made it a premier platform for high-quality arcade game ports.
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E.
LG Electronics
LG Electronics is a South Korean multinational electronics company known for producing a wide range of consumer electronics, home appliances, and mobile devices.
- 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: Trinitron Target entity description: Trinitron is Sony’s line of high-quality aperture grille cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays, renowned for their sharp image, bright colors, and widespread use in televisions and computer monitors from the late 1960s onward.
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A.
NTSC color television standard
The NTSC color television standard is an analog broadcast system developed in the United States that defined how color video signals were encoded and transmitted for decades of North American television.
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B.
Philco
Philco was a pioneering American electronics manufacturer best known for its radios, televisions, and early computer and semiconductor technologies.
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C.
Ampex
Ampex is an American electronics company renowned for pioneering professional audio and video tape recording technology.
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D.
Sharp X68000
The Sharp X68000 is a Japanese home computer and gaming system from the late 1980s and early 1990s, renowned for its advanced graphics and sound capabilities that made it a premier platform for high-quality arcade game ports.
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E.
LG Electronics
LG Electronics is a South Korean multinational electronics company known for producing a wide range of consumer electronics, home appliances, and mobile devices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sony product line
ⓘ
aperture grille cathode-ray tube display technology ⓘ |
| appliedTo |
computer monitors
ⓘ
television sets ⓘ |
| brandOwner |
Sony
ⓘ
surface form:
Sony Corporation
|
| competedWith |
Mitsubishi Diamondtron
ⓘ
NEC aperture grille CRTs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| developer | Sony ⓘ |
| displayStructure | aperture grille ⓘ |
| displayTechnologyType | CRT ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Trinitron
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
FD Trinitron
Trinitron self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Sony BVM series monitors
Trinitron self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Sony GDM series monitors
Trinitron self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Sony PVM series monitors
Trinitron self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Trinitron WEGA
|
| inception | 1968 ⓘ |
| introducedAs | television picture tube ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Sony ⓘ |
| marketedAs |
high-end display
ⓘ
premium television brand ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
accurate color reproduction
ⓘ
flat or nearly flat screen variants ⓘ high brightness ⓘ high contrast ⓘ sharp image ⓘ use of tensioned vertical wires ⓘ vertical phosphor stripes ⓘ |
| notableFor | widespread global adoption ⓘ |
| patentHolder | Sony ⓘ |
| phaseOutPeriod | early 2000s ⓘ |
| receivedAward |
Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards
ⓘ
surface form:
Emmy Award for engineering achievement
IEEE Milestone (for Sony color video tape recorder and Trinitron color television receiver) ⓘ |
| replacedTechnology | shadow mask CRT ⓘ |
| supersededBy |
LCD flat-panel displays
ⓘ
plasma displays ⓘ |
| targetMarket |
computer graphics and gaming
ⓘ
home entertainment ⓘ professional video production ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfPopularity |
1970s
ⓘ
1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ early 2000s ⓘ |
| usedIn |
broadcast reference monitors
ⓘ
computer CRT monitors ⓘ consumer televisions ⓘ professional video monitors ⓘ |
| visibleCharacteristic | one or two faint horizontal damping lines on screen ⓘ |
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: Trinitron Description of subject: Trinitron is Sony’s line of high-quality aperture grille cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays, renowned for their sharp image, bright colors, and widespread use in televisions and computer monitors from the late 1960s onward.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
FD Trinitron
this entity surface form:
Trinitron WEGA
this entity surface form:
Sony GDM series monitors
this entity surface form:
Sony PVM series monitors
this entity surface form:
Sony BVM series monitors
IEEE Milestone (for Sony color video tape recorder and Trinitron color television receiver)
→
honors
→
Trinitron
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Sony Trinitron color television receiver
IEEE Milestone (for Sony color video tape recorder and Trinitron color television receiver)
→
technologyTypeRecognized
→
Trinitron
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Trinitron color television receiver
this entity surface form:
Sony Trinitron
this entity surface form:
Sony Trinitron CRTs
this entity surface form:
Sony Trinitron CRTs