SNK
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SNK is a Japanese video game company best known for its arcade and home console systems and fighting game franchises such as The King of Fighters, Samurai Shodown, and Metal Slug.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SNK canonical | 100 |
| SNK Playmore | 4 |
| SNK Corporation | 3 |
| SNK fighting game universe | 2 |
| SNK Corporation of America | 1 |
| SNK Neo Geo | 1 |
| SNK development divisions | 1 |
| SNK shared universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1810228 — 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)
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Target entity: SNK Context triple: [Neo Geo AES, developer, SNK]
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A.
Sega
Sega is a Japanese video game and entertainment company best known for its iconic consoles and franchises such as Sonic the Hedgehog.
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B.
SMAC Entertainment
SMAC Entertainment is a television production company known for creating and producing popular game shows and unscripted entertainment, including the modern revival of "The $100,000 Pyramid."
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C.
Vivendi Games
Vivendi Games was a French video game publisher and holding company that owned studios like Blizzard Entertainment before merging with Activision to form Activision Blizzard.
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D.
Nisshoki
Nisshoki, more commonly known as the Hinomaru, is the national flag of Japan featuring a red sun disc centered on a white field.
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E.
Daiei
Daiei is a Japanese retail corporation that formerly owned the professional baseball team now known as the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.
- 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: SNK Target entity description: SNK is a Japanese video game company best known for its arcade and home console systems and fighting game franchises such as The King of Fighters, Samurai Shodown, and Metal Slug.
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A.
Sega
Sega is a Japanese video game and entertainment company best known for its iconic consoles and franchises such as Sonic the Hedgehog.
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B.
SMAC Entertainment
SMAC Entertainment is a television production company known for creating and producing popular game shows and unscripted entertainment, including the modern revival of "The $100,000 Pyramid."
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C.
Vivendi Games
Vivendi Games was a French video game publisher and holding company that owned studios like Blizzard Entertainment before merging with Activision to form Activision Blizzard.
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D.
Nisshoki
Nisshoki, more commonly known as the Hinomaru, is the national flag of Japan featuring a red sun disc centered on a white field.
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E.
Daiei
Daiei is a Japanese retail corporation that formerly owned the professional baseball team now known as the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
corporation
ⓘ
video game company ⓘ |
| brand |
Neo Geo
ⓘ
linked to:
Neo Geo AES
Neo Geo AES ⓘ Neo Geo CD ⓘ Neo Geo MVS ⓘ
linked to:
Neo Geo AES
Neo Geo Pocket ⓘ Neo Geo Pocket Color ⓘ
linked to:
Neo Geo Pocket
|
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| developed |
Art of Fighting series
ⓘ
linked to:
Art of Fighting
Fatal Fury series ⓘ Ikari Warriors series ⓘ Metal Slug series ⓘ
linked to:
Metal Slug
Neo Geo arcade games ⓘ Samurai Shodown series ⓘ
linked to:
Samurai Shodown
The King of Fighters series ⓘ |
| focus |
arcade-style action games
ⓘ
fighting games ⓘ run-and-gun games ⓘ |
| hasFranchise |
Art of Fighting
ⓘ
Fatal Fury ⓘ
linked to:
Fatal Fury series
Ikari Warriors ⓘ
linked to:
Ikari Warriors series
Metal Slug ⓘ Samurai Shodown ⓘ The King of Fighters ⓘ
linked to:
The King of Fighters series
|
| industry |
arcade games
ⓘ
home video game consoles ⓘ video games ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Neo Geo hardware platform
ⓘ
linked to:
Neo Geo AES
arcade fighting game design ⓘ high-quality 2D sprite-based graphics ⓘ |
| notableFor |
arcade video games
ⓘ
fighting games ⓘ home console systems ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Metal Slug
ⓘ
Samurai Shodown ⓘ The King of Fighters ⓘ
linked to:
The King of Fighters series
|
| platformDeveloperFor |
Neo Geo AES
ⓘ
Neo Geo CD ⓘ Neo Geo MVS ⓘ
linked to:
Neo Geo AES
Neo Geo Pocket ⓘ Neo Geo Pocket Color ⓘ
linked to:
Neo Geo Pocket
|
| published |
Metal Slug series
ⓘ
linked to:
Metal Slug
Samurai Shodown series ⓘ
linked to:
Samurai Shodown
The King of Fighters series ⓘ |
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: SNK Description of subject: SNK is a Japanese video game company best known for its arcade and home console systems and fighting game franchises such as The King of Fighters, Samurai Shodown, and Metal Slug.
Referenced by (113)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: SNK
linked to: SNK
linked to: SNK
linked to: SNK
subject linked to:
Iori Yagami in The King of Fighters series
subject linked to:
Iori Yagami in The King of Fighters series
linked to: SNK
linked to: SNK