Pac-Man
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Pac-Man is a classic arcade video game character created by Namco, known for navigating mazes while eating pellets and avoiding ghosts.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pac-Man canonical | 4 |
| Ms. Pac-Man | 1 |
| Pac-Man (Atari 2600) | 1 |
| Pac-Man (animated series) | 1 |
| Pac-Man (arcade video game) | 1 |
| Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3537815 — 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: Pac-Man Context triple: [Super Smash Bros., includesThirdPartyCharacters, Pac-Man]
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A.
Pacman
Pacman is a lightweight, command-line package manager originally developed for Arch Linux, known for its speed and simple binary package handling.
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B.
Pong
Pong is a comic ministerial character in Giacomo Puccini’s opera "Turandot," serving alongside Ping and Pang to provide both humor and commentary on the unfolding drama.
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C.
Mini Paceman
The Mini Paceman is a compact three-door crossover SUV coupé produced by Mini, known for its sporty styling and elevated ride height.
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D.
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong is a powerful, gorilla-like video game character from Nintendo’s Donkey Kong and Mario franchises, known for his strength, barrel-throwing antics, and role as both rival and ally to Mario.
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E.
Tetris
Tetris is a classic and highly influential puzzle video game in which players rotate and arrange falling geometric shapes to complete and clear horizontal lines.
- 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: Pac-Man Target entity description: Pac-Man is a classic arcade video game character created by Namco, known for navigating mazes while eating pellets and avoiding ghosts.
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A.
Pacman
Pacman is a lightweight, command-line package manager originally developed for Arch Linux, known for its speed and simple binary package handling.
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B.
Pong
Pong is a comic ministerial character in Giacomo Puccini’s opera "Turandot," serving alongside Ping and Pang to provide both humor and commentary on the unfolding drama.
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C.
Mini Paceman
The Mini Paceman is a compact three-door crossover SUV coupé produced by Mini, known for its sporty styling and elevated ride height.
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D.
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong is a powerful, gorilla-like video game character from Nintendo’s Donkey Kong and Mario franchises, known for his strength, barrel-throwing antics, and role as both rival and ally to Mario.
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E.
Tetris
Tetris is a classic and highly influential puzzle video game in which players rotate and arrange falling geometric shapes to complete and clear horizontal lines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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video game character ⓘ video game franchise ⓘ |
| controlScheme | 4-way joystick ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| creator |
Namco
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linked to:
Namco Bandai Games
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| culturalImpact |
icon of 1980s popular culture
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inspired the term "Pac-Man defense" in business ⓘ |
| designer | Toru Iwatani ⓘ |
| enemy |
Blinky
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Clyde ⓘ Inky ⓘ Pinky ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceInVideoGame |
Pac-Man (arcade video game)
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linked to:
Pac-Man
|
| firstReleaseDate | 1980-05-22 ⓘ |
| gameplayFeature |
avoids ghosts
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eats pellets ⓘ navigates mazes ⓘ uses power pellets to eat ghosts ⓘ |
| genre | maze game ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Pac-Man (animated TV series, 1982)
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Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures ⓘ
linked to:
Pac-Man
|
| hasMerchandise |
board games
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clothing ⓘ toys ⓘ |
| hasSpinOff |
Ms. Pac-Man
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Pac-Man Championship Edition ⓘ Pac-Man Jr. ⓘ Pac-Man World ⓘ |
| musicTheme | Pac-Man arcade theme ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the most famous arcade games of all time
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popularizing character-based video games ⓘ |
| originalPlatform | arcade ⓘ |
| owner |
Bandai Namco Entertainment
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linked to:
Namco Bandai Games
|
| partOf |
Bandai Namco franchises
ⓘ
linked to:
Namco Bandai Games
|
| platform |
Atari 2600
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Game Boy ⓘ Nintendo Entertainment System ⓘ PC ⓘ arcade ⓘ mobile phone ⓘ |
| publisher |
Midway Games
ⓘ
Namco ⓘ
linked to:
Namco Bandai Games
|
| rating | one of the highest-grossing arcade games in history ⓘ |
| releaseRegion |
Europe
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Japan ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| scoringMechanic |
bonus points for eating fruit
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bonus points for eating ghosts after power pellet ⓘ points for eating pellets ⓘ |
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: Pac-Man Description of subject: Pac-Man is a classic arcade video game character created by Namco, known for navigating mazes while eating pellets and avoiding ghosts.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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