Universal Chess Interface
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Universal Chess Interface is a widely used open communication protocol that standardizes how chess engines interact with graphical user interfaces and other chess software.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Universal Chess Interface canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8992988 — 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: Universal Chess Interface Context triple: [Stockfish, supportsProtocol, Universal Chess Interface]
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A.
KCEC
KCEC is the ICAO airport code for Del Norte County Regional Airport in Crescent City, California, which serves the surrounding Del Norte County region.
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B.
Stockfish
Stockfish is a powerful open-source chess engine renowned for its exceptional playing strength and widespread use in computer chess.
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C.
FICS
FICS is the Firearms Instant Check System operated by the Oregon State Police to conduct background checks on firearm purchasers.
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D.
Chess Oscar
The Chess Oscar is an annual award historically given to the world's best chess player, as voted by international chess journalists and experts.
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E.
MCA Chess
MCA Chess was a record label imprint under MCA Records that continued the legacy and catalog of the influential blues and R&B label Chess Records.
- 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: Universal Chess Interface Target entity description: Universal Chess Interface is a widely used open communication protocol that standardizes how chess engines interact with graphical user interfaces and other chess software.
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A.
KCEC
KCEC is the ICAO airport code for Del Norte County Regional Airport in Crescent City, California, which serves the surrounding Del Norte County region.
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B.
Stockfish
Stockfish is a powerful open-source chess engine renowned for its exceptional playing strength and widespread use in computer chess.
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C.
FICS
FICS is the Firearms Instant Check System operated by the Oregon State Police to conduct background checks on firearm purchasers.
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D.
Chess Oscar
The Chess Oscar is an annual award historically given to the world's best chess player, as voted by international chess journalists and experts.
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E.
MCA Chess
MCA Chess was a record label imprint under MCA Records that continued the legacy and catalog of the influential blues and R&B label Chess Records.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chess protocol
ⓘ
communication protocol ⓘ open protocol ⓘ |
| abbreviation | UCI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competesWith | WinBoard protocol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| domain | computer chess ⓘ |
| hasCommand |
go
ⓘ
isready ⓘ ponderhit ⓘ position ⓘ quit ⓘ setoption ⓘ stop ⓘ uci NERFINISHED ⓘ ucinewgame ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
engine-driven time management
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support for FEN position input ⓘ support for different search depths ⓘ support for different time controls ⓘ support for engine identification ⓘ support for engine initialization ⓘ support for engine options ⓘ support for engine quit command ⓘ support for hash table configuration ⓘ support for incremental position updates ⓘ support for move lists ⓘ support for multi-PV analysis ⓘ support for opening books ⓘ support for pondering ⓘ support for starting position setup ⓘ text-based command protocol ⓘ |
| hasResponse |
bestmove
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id ⓘ info ⓘ readyok ⓘ uciok ⓘ |
| influenced | design of many modern chess engines ⓘ |
| purpose |
allow chess engines to interact with graphical user interfaces
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enable interoperability between chess software components ⓘ standardize communication between chess engines and user interfaces ⓘ |
| status | widely adopted in computer chess community ⓘ |
| supportsGame |
Chess960
NERFINISHED
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standard chess ⓘ |
| usedBy |
chess analysis tools
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chess engines ⓘ graphical user interfaces ⓘ online chess servers ⓘ |
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: Universal Chess Interface Description of subject: Universal Chess Interface is a widely used open communication protocol that standardizes how chess engines interact with graphical user interfaces and other chess software.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.