Dolby Headphone
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Dolby Headphone is an audio technology that simulates multi-channel surround sound over standard stereo headphones to create an immersive listening experience.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dolby Headphone canonical | 1 |
| Dolby Headphone decoder | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T645626 — 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: Dolby Headphone Context triple: [Dolby Laboratories, products, Dolby Headphone]
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A.
Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos is an advanced surround sound technology that creates immersive, three-dimensional audio experiences in cinemas, home theaters, and personal devices.
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B.
Dolby SR
Dolby SR is an advanced professional analog noise reduction system developed by Dolby Laboratories to significantly improve the dynamic range and sound quality of film and audio recordings.
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C.
Dolby Stereo
Dolby Stereo is a multichannel optical sound system for film that brought high-fidelity, surround-capable audio to movie theaters in the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital is a multichannel digital audio encoding system widely used in cinema, home theater, and broadcast to deliver surround sound.
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E.
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dolby Digital 5.1 is a surround sound audio format that delivers multichannel cinematic audio through five full-bandwidth speakers and one low-frequency effects channel.
- 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: Dolby Headphone Target entity description: Dolby Headphone is an audio technology that simulates multi-channel surround sound over standard stereo headphones to create an immersive listening experience.
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A.
Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos is an advanced surround sound technology that creates immersive, three-dimensional audio experiences in cinemas, home theaters, and personal devices.
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B.
Dolby SR
Dolby SR is an advanced professional analog noise reduction system developed by Dolby Laboratories to significantly improve the dynamic range and sound quality of film and audio recordings.
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C.
Dolby Stereo
Dolby Stereo is a multichannel optical sound system for film that brought high-fidelity, surround-capable audio to movie theaters in the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital is a multichannel digital audio encoding system widely used in cinema, home theater, and broadcast to deliver surround sound.
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E.
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dolby Digital 5.1 is a surround sound audio format that delivers multichannel cinematic audio through five full-bandwidth speakers and one low-frequency effects channel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
audio technology
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virtual surround sound technology ⓘ |
| audioChannelsSupported |
5.1 surround sound
ⓘ
7.1 surround sound ⓘ |
| audioDomain |
consumer audio
ⓘ
gaming audio ⓘ home theater ⓘ |
| audioProcessing | HRTF-based spatialization (head-related transfer functions) ⓘ |
| benefit |
improved spatial localization over standard stereo
ⓘ
private listening with surround effect ⓘ surround sound experience without external speakers ⓘ |
| brand |
Dolby Laboratories
ⓘ
surface form:
Dolby
|
| brandOwner | Dolby Laboratories ⓘ |
| compatibleDeviceType |
AV receiver
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PC sound card ⓘ gaming console (via licensed implementations) ⓘ media player ⓘ |
| competesWith |
DTS
ⓘ
surface form:
DTS Headphone:X
SRS Headphone technology ⓘ |
| coreFunction |
binaural rendering of surround sound
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room acoustic simulation ⓘ virtual speaker placement around listener ⓘ |
| developer | Dolby Laboratories ⓘ |
| feature |
downmixing of multi-channel content
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headphone-optimized surround virtualization ⓘ room model presets (in some implementations) ⓘ |
| inputFormat | multi-channel audio signal ⓘ |
| intendedEffect | immersive listening experience ⓘ |
| licensingModel |
licensed to hardware manufacturers
ⓘ
licensed to software developers ⓘ |
| marketedFor |
PC and console gaming
ⓘ
home entertainment ⓘ portable media playback ⓘ |
| outputDevice | stereo headphones ⓘ |
| outputFormat | two-channel stereo signal ⓘ |
| requires |
Dolby Headphone
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Dolby Headphone decoder
compatible playback device or software ⓘ |
| simulates | multi-channel surround sound ⓘ |
| technologyType |
binaural audio processing
ⓘ
digital signal processing ⓘ |
| typicalContentSource |
Blu-ray Disc format
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surface form:
Blu-ray Disc
DVD ⓘ streaming video services (via supporting devices) ⓘ |
| useCase |
PC gaming audio over headphones
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home theater listening over headphones ⓘ movie playback over headphones ⓘ music listening over headphones ⓘ |
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: Dolby Headphone Description of subject: Dolby Headphone is an audio technology that simulates multi-channel surround sound over standard stereo headphones to create an immersive listening experience.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dolby Headphone decoder