Warcraft: Orcs & Humans
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Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a 1994 real-time strategy video game that launched the Warcraft franchise and helped popularize the RTS genre on PC.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Warcraft: Orcs & Humans canonical | 25 |
| Warcraft franchise | 2 |
| Warcraft series | 1 |
| Warcraft video game series | 1 |
| Warcraft: Orcs & Humans (lore contribution) | 1 |
| Warcraft: Orcs & Humans backstory | 1 |
| Warcraft: Orcs & Humans soundtrack | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2423884 — 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: Warcraft: Orcs & Humans Context triple: [Blizzard Entertainment, created, Warcraft: Orcs & Humans]
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A.
Warcraft
Warcraft is a 2016 fantasy action film adaptation of Blizzard Entertainment’s popular video game series, depicting the initial conflict between humans and orcs in the world of Azeroth.
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B.
World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in the fantasy world of Azeroth, renowned for its expansive lore, cooperative gameplay, and long-standing cultural impact on online gaming.
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C.
StarCraft
StarCraft is a landmark real-time strategy video game franchise known for its competitive multiplayer, deep sci-fi lore, and major influence on esports, particularly in South Korea.
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D.
StarCraft II
StarCraft II is a real-time strategy video game by Blizzard Entertainment, renowned for its competitive multiplayer scene and deep strategic gameplay.
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E.
Strife
Strife is a 1909 stage play by John Galsworthy that portrays a bitter industrial conflict between capital and labor, highlighting the human cost of class struggle.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Warcraft: Orcs & Humans Target entity description: Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a 1994 real-time strategy video game that launched the Warcraft franchise and helped popularize the RTS genre on PC.
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A.
Warcraft
Warcraft is a 2016 fantasy action film adaptation of Blizzard Entertainment’s popular video game series, depicting the initial conflict between humans and orcs in the world of Azeroth.
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B.
World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in the fantasy world of Azeroth, renowned for its expansive lore, cooperative gameplay, and long-standing cultural impact on online gaming.
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C.
StarCraft
StarCraft is a landmark real-time strategy video game franchise known for its competitive multiplayer, deep sci-fi lore, and major influence on esports, particularly in South Korea.
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D.
StarCraft II
StarCraft II is a real-time strategy video game by Blizzard Entertainment, renowned for its competitive multiplayer scene and deep strategic gameplay.
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E.
Strife
Strife is a 1909 stage play by John Galsworthy that portrays a bitter industrial conflict between capital and labor, highlighting the human cost of class struggle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
RTS
ⓘ
real-time strategy game ⓘ video game ⓘ |
| ageRating | T for Teen (later re-releases) ⓘ |
| audio | MIDI soundtrack ⓘ |
| award | 1994 best strategy game awards from multiple publications ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developer | Blizzard Entertainment ⓘ |
| engine | proprietary Blizzard engine ⓘ |
| faction |
Humans of Azeroth
ⓘ
linked to:
World of Warcraft
Orcish Horde ⓘ
linked to:
Horde
|
| feature |
multiplayer mode
ⓘ
single-player campaign ⓘ |
| followedBy | Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness ⓘ |
| franchise | Warcraft ⓘ |
| gameMode |
multiplayer
ⓘ
single-player ⓘ |
| gameplayElement |
base building
ⓘ
fog of war ⓘ hero-less army control ⓘ resource gathering ⓘ unit training ⓘ |
| genre | real-time strategy ⓘ |
| hasCampaign |
Human campaign
ⓘ
Orc campaign ⓘ |
| influenced |
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
ⓘ
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos ⓘ World of Warcraft ⓘ later Blizzard RTS design ⓘ |
| initialReleaseDate | 1994-11-23 ⓘ |
| multiplayerMaxPlayers | 2 ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme | fantasy war between humans and orcs ⓘ |
| notableFor |
helping popularize real-time strategy games on PC
ⓘ
launching the Warcraft franchise ⓘ |
| perspective | top-down ⓘ |
| platform |
MS-DOS
ⓘ
Mac OS ⓘ
linked to:
macOS
|
| publisher | Blizzard Entertainment ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| resourceType |
gold
ⓘ
lumber ⓘ |
| series | Warcraft ⓘ |
| setting | Azeroth ⓘ |
| supports |
local area network multiplayer
ⓘ
modem multiplayer ⓘ scenario editor ⓘ |
| visualStyle | 2D sprite-based graphics ⓘ |
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: Warcraft: Orcs & Humans Description of subject: Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a 1994 real-time strategy video game that launched the Warcraft franchise and helped popularize the RTS genre on PC.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Blizzard
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subject linked to:
Stuart Fenegan
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Warchief Orgrim Doomhammer
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