SPI
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SPI is the visual effects and computer animation studio division of Sony Pictures known for its work on major feature films and animated movies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| SPI canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9740160 — 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: SPI Context triple: [Sony Pictures Imageworks, abbreviation, SPI]
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SPI
SPI is the IATA airport code for Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport serving Springfield, Illinois, in the United States.
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SPI
SPI is a stock market index that includes companies such as SIX:NESN and tracks the performance of the broader Swiss equity market.
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SPI
SPI is the Office of Sanctions Policy and Implementation, a U.S. State Department office responsible for developing and coordinating economic sanctions policy.
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SPI
SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) is a synchronous serial communication protocol commonly used in embedded systems to connect microcontrollers with peripherals such as sensors, memory, and displays.
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I2C
I2C is a widely used two-wire serial communication bus that enables simple, low-speed data exchange between microcontrollers and peripheral devices on the same circuit board.
- 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: SPI Target entity description: SPI is the visual effects and computer animation studio division of Sony Pictures known for its work on major feature films and animated movies.
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A.
SPI
SPI is the IATA airport code for Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport serving Springfield, Illinois, in the United States.
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B.
SPI
SPI is a stock market index that includes companies such as SIX:NESN and tracks the performance of the broader Swiss equity market.
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C.
SPI
SPI is the Office of Sanctions Policy and Implementation, a U.S. State Department office responsible for developing and coordinating economic sanctions policy.
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D.
SPI
SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) is a synchronous serial communication protocol commonly used in embedded systems to connect microcontrollers with peripherals such as sensors, memory, and displays.
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E.
I2C
I2C is a widely used two-wire serial communication bus that enables simple, low-speed data exchange between microcontrollers and peripheral devices on the same circuit board.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer animation studio
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subsidiary ⓘ visual effects studio ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | SPI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | Sony Pictures Animation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| focus |
production of fully animated features
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visual effects for live-action films ⓘ |
| formerHeadquartersLocation | Culver City, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Sony Pictures Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedInPeriod | early 1990s ⓘ |
| hasDivisionType | studio division of Sony Pictures ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
computer animation
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film production services ⓘ visual effects ⓘ |
| notableAward | Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (shared on various films) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)
NERFINISHED
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Hotel Transylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ Hotel Transylvania 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation NERFINISHED ⓘ Men in Black 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Men in Black II NERFINISHED ⓘ Spider-Man (2002 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Spider-Man 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Spider-Man 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse NERFINISHED ⓘ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse NERFINISHED ⓘ Stuart Little NERFINISHED ⓘ Stuart Little 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Amazing Spider-Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Amazing Spider-Man 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Smurfs (2011 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Smurfs 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Sony Group Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Sony Pictures Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryClients | major Hollywood film studios ⓘ |
| serviceProvided |
CGI production
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character animation ⓘ digital compositing ⓘ stereoscopic 3D conversion ⓘ visual effects for feature films ⓘ |
| website | https://www.imageworks.com/ ⓘ |
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: SPI Description of subject: SPI is the visual effects and computer animation studio division of Sony Pictures known for its work on major feature films and animated movies.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.