Battle.net
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Battle.net is Blizzard Entertainment’s online gaming platform and digital distribution service used to access, purchase, and play the company’s games and connect with other players.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Battle.net canonical | 17 |
| Battle.net Authenticator | 1 |
| Battle.net account | 1 |
| Battle.net desktop app | 1 |
| Battle.net online gaming service | 1 |
| Battle.net online platform | 1 |
| Blizzard Battle.net | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2423898 — 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: Battle.net Context triple: [Blizzard Entertainment, service, Battle.net]
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A.
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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B.
Overwatch
Overwatch is a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter video game franchise known for its diverse cast of heroes, objective-focused gameplay, and vibrant, character-driven world.
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C.
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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D.
Steam
"Steam" is a 1992 funk-infused pop rock song by Peter Gabriel, known for its energetic sound and inventive, visually striking music video.
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E.
Steam
Steam is a leading digital distribution platform and community hub for PC gaming, developed by Valve Corporation.
- 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: Battle.net Target entity description: Battle.net is Blizzard Entertainment’s online gaming platform and digital distribution service used to access, purchase, and play the company’s games and connect with other players.
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A.
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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B.
Overwatch
Overwatch is a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter video game franchise known for its diverse cast of heroes, objective-focused gameplay, and vibrant, character-driven world.
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C.
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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D.
Steam
"Steam" is a 1992 funk-infused pop rock song by Peter Gabriel, known for its energetic sound and inventive, visually striking music video.
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E.
Steam
Steam is a leading digital distribution platform and community hub for PC gaming, developed by Valve Corporation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Battle.net Description of subject: Battle.net is Blizzard Entertainment’s online gaming platform and digital distribution service used to access, purchase, and play the company’s games and connect with other players.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Blizzard
linked to: Battle.net
linked to: Battle.net
linked to: Battle.net
linked to: Battle.net
linked to: Battle.net
linked to: Battle.net