Alcatraz
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Alcatraz is the silent U.S. Marine protagonist of Crysis 2 who inherits the advanced Nanosuit and becomes central to humanity’s fight against alien invaders in New York City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alcatraz canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3787006 — 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: Alcatraz Context triple: [Crysis 2, hasCharacter, Alcatraz]
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A.
Alcatraz Island
Alcatraz Island is a small rocky island in San Francisco Bay best known for its former maximum-security federal prison, which once held some of America’s most notorious criminals and is now a popular historic site and tourist attraction.
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B.
Alcatraz Island ferry terminal
The Alcatraz Island ferry terminal is the waterfront departure point in San Francisco where visitors board boats to reach the historic Alcatraz prison island in San Francisco Bay.
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C.
San Quentin State Prison
San Quentin State Prison is California’s oldest and most notorious maximum-security prison, located on the shores of San Francisco Bay and known for housing the state’s death row for male inmates.
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D.
Blackwell's Island
Blackwell's Island, now known as Roosevelt Island, is a narrow island in New York City's East River historically associated with hospitals, asylums, and prisons.
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E.
Alcatraz Island Lighthouse
Alcatraz Island Lighthouse is a historic beacon on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, notable as the first lighthouse built on the U.S. West Coast and a key aid to navigation for ships entering the bay.
- 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: Alcatraz Target entity description: Alcatraz is the silent U.S. Marine protagonist of Crysis 2 who inherits the advanced Nanosuit and becomes central to humanity’s fight against alien invaders in New York City.
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A.
Alcatraz Island
Alcatraz Island is a small rocky island in San Francisco Bay best known for its former maximum-security federal prison, which once held some of America’s most notorious criminals and is now a popular historic site and tourist attraction.
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B.
Alcatraz Island ferry terminal
The Alcatraz Island ferry terminal is the waterfront departure point in San Francisco where visitors board boats to reach the historic Alcatraz prison island in San Francisco Bay.
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C.
San Quentin State Prison
San Quentin State Prison is California’s oldest and most notorious maximum-security prison, located on the shores of San Francisco Bay and known for housing the state’s death row for male inmates.
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D.
Blackwell's Island
Blackwell's Island, now known as Roosevelt Island, is a narrow island in New York City's East River historically associated with hospitals, asylums, and prisons.
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E.
Alcatraz Island Lighthouse
Alcatraz Island Lighthouse is a historic beacon on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, notable as the first lighthouse built on the U.S. West Coast and a key aid to navigation for ships entering the bay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ video game character ⓘ |
| affiliation | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Crysis 2 ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | Crysis ⓘ |
| communicationStyle | non-speaking ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fightsAgainst |
Ceph
ⓘ
alien invaders ⓘ |
| franchisePublisher | Electronic Arts ⓘ |
| gameDeveloper | Crytek ⓘ |
| gameEngine | CryEngine 3 ⓘ |
| gamePublisher | Electronic Arts ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | first-person shooter ⓘ |
| inherits |
Nanosuit 2
ⓘ
linked to:
Nanosuit 2.0
|
| medium | video game ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | savior figure for humanity in Crysis 2 ⓘ |
| notableAbility |
armor enhancement via Nanosuit
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enhanced speed via Nanosuit ⓘ enhanced strength via Nanosuit ⓘ tactical cloaking via Nanosuit ⓘ |
| notableFor | central role in defense of New York City ⓘ |
| occupation |
U.S. Marine
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Marine Corps personnel
|
| platformsAppearedOn |
PC
ⓘ
PlayStation 3 ⓘ
linked to:
Sony PlayStation 3
Xbox 360 ⓘ |
| playableCharacterIn | Crysis 2 ⓘ |
| predecessorInSuit | Prophet ⓘ |
| receivesSuitFrom | Prophet ⓘ |
| role | silent protagonist ⓘ |
| setIn | New York City ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| uses |
Nanosuit 2
ⓘ
linked to:
Nanosuit 2.0
|
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: Alcatraz Description of subject: Alcatraz is the silent U.S. Marine protagonist of Crysis 2 who inherits the advanced Nanosuit and becomes central to humanity’s fight against alien invaders in New York City.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.