Universal Interactive Studios
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Universal Interactive Studios was a video game publishing division of Universal that became best known for releasing the early Crash Bandicoot titles and other franchise-based games in the 1990s and early 2000s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Universal Interactive Studios canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2496268 — 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: Universal Interactive Studios Context triple: [Crash Bandicoot, publisher, Universal Interactive Studios]
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Fox Interactive Media
Fox Interactive Media was a digital media subsidiary of News Corporation that managed the company’s online properties, including major social networking and entertainment sites in the mid-2000s.
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Annapurna Interactive
Annapurna Interactive is a video game publisher known for curating and releasing critically acclaimed, artistically driven indie games such as "What Remains of Edith Finch," "Outer Wilds," and "Stray."
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C.
Activision Publishing
Activision Publishing is a major American video game publisher best known for franchises like Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.
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Midway Games
Midway Games was an American video game company best known for publishing and developing popular arcade and console titles such as the Mortal Kombat series.
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E.
Vivendi Universal Entertainment
Vivendi Universal Entertainment was the media and entertainment division of the French conglomerate Vivendi, encompassing film, television, and theme park assets that later became part of NBCUniversal.
- 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: Universal Interactive Studios Target entity description: Universal Interactive Studios was a video game publishing division of Universal that became best known for releasing the early Crash Bandicoot titles and other franchise-based games in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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A.
Fox Interactive Media
Fox Interactive Media was a digital media subsidiary of News Corporation that managed the company’s online properties, including major social networking and entertainment sites in the mid-2000s.
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B.
Annapurna Interactive
Annapurna Interactive is a video game publisher known for curating and releasing critically acclaimed, artistically driven indie games such as "What Remains of Edith Finch," "Outer Wilds," and "Stray."
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C.
Activision Publishing
Activision Publishing is a major American video game publisher best known for franchises like Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.
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D.
Midway Games
Midway Games was an American video game company best known for publishing and developing popular arcade and console titles such as the Mortal Kombat series.
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E.
Vivendi Universal Entertainment
Vivendi Universal Entertainment was the media and entertainment division of the French conglomerate Vivendi, encompassing film, television, and theme park assets that later became part of NBCUniversal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Universal Interactive Studios Description of subject: Universal Interactive Studios was a video game publishing division of Universal that became best known for releasing the early Crash Bandicoot titles and other franchise-based games in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Crash Bandicoot (character)
subject linked to:
Cortex Strikes Back
subject linked to:
Wumpa fruit