Electronic Entertainment Expo
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The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is a major annual trade event where video game publishers, developers, and hardware manufacturers showcase upcoming games and gaming technologies to industry professionals and media.
All labels observed (15)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| E3 | 2 |
| E3 2014 | 2 |
| E3 2018 | 2 |
| E3 Expo | 2 |
| Electronic Entertainment Expo canonical | 2 |
| E3 2006 | 1 |
| E3 2011 | 1 |
| E3 2012 | 1 |
| E3 2016 | 1 |
| E3 2019 | 1 |
| E3 2021 | 1 |
| Electronic Entertainment Expo 2010 | 1 |
| Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011 | 1 |
| Electronic Entertainment Expo 2015 | 1 |
| Konami pre-E3 2011 event | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4746080 — 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: Electronic Entertainment Expo Context triple: [Los Angeles Convention Center, notableEventHosted, Electronic Entertainment Expo]
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TGS
TGS is the central administrative and academic unit overseeing graduate education and research programs at Northwestern University.
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CES
CES is a high-resolution astronomical spectrograph used on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope for detailed spectroscopic studies of celestial objects.
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C.
CES
CES is the station code used to identify Cessnock subway station on the Glasgow Subway network.
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D.
CES
CES is the ICAO airline designator used to identify China Eastern Airlines in international aviation operations.
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E.
CES
CES is the IATA airport code for Cessnock Airport, a regional airport serving the Cessnock area in New South Wales, Australia.
- 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: Electronic Entertainment Expo Target entity description: The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is a major annual trade event where video game publishers, developers, and hardware manufacturers showcase upcoming games and gaming technologies to industry professionals and media.
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A.
TGS
TGS is the central administrative and academic unit overseeing graduate education and research programs at Northwestern University.
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B.
CES
CES is a high-resolution astronomical spectrograph used on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope for detailed spectroscopic studies of celestial objects.
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C.
CES
CES is the station code used to identify Cessnock subway station on the Glasgow Subway network.
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D.
CES
CES is the ICAO airline designator used to identify China Eastern Airlines in international aviation operations.
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E.
CES
CES is the IATA airport code for Cessnock Airport, a regional airport serving the Cessnock area in New South Wales, Australia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
recurring event
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trade show ⓘ video game trade fair ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
E3 Expo
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linked to:
Electronic Entertainment Expo
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| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| exhibits |
game consoles
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game development tools ⓘ gaming hardware ⓘ video games ⓘ |
| firstEditionCity | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| firstEditionCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| firstEditionLocation | Los Angeles Convention Center ⓘ |
| focus |
upcoming gaming technologies
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upcoming video games ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
business meetings
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game demos ⓘ hands-on previews ⓘ networking events ⓘ press conferences ⓘ |
| hashtag | #E3 ⓘ |
| inception | 1995 ⓘ |
| industry | video game industry ⓘ |
| influenced |
Gamescom
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linked to:
Paris Games Week
The Game Awards announcements format ⓘ Tokyo Game Show ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage |
international gaming press
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mainstream news outlets ⓘ |
| notableFor |
console hardware reveals
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industry trend setting ⓘ major game announcements ⓘ |
| organizer | Entertainment Software Association ⓘ |
| peakAttendanceApprox | over 70,000 attendees ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Consumer Electronics Show game section
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linked to:
Consumer Electronics Show
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| primaryAudience |
game developers
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game publishers ⓘ hardware manufacturers ⓘ industry professionals ⓘ media representatives ⓘ retail buyers ⓘ |
| regionServed | global ⓘ |
| shortName |
E3
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linked to:
Electronic Entertainment Expo
|
| status |
canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic
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canceled in 2022 ⓘ canceled in 2023 ⓘ held as all-digital event in 2021 ⓘ permanently discontinued as of 2023 announcement ⓘ |
| typicalLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| typicalMonthHeld | June ⓘ |
| typicalVenue | Los Angeles Convention Center ⓘ |
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: Electronic Entertainment Expo Description of subject: The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is a major annual trade event where video game publishers, developers, and hardware manufacturers showcase upcoming games and gaming technologies to industry professionals and media.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Fox Engine (early version is sometimes referred to as a proprietary Kojima Productions engine)
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E3 2010 Game Critics Award for Best Console Game (nomination)
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presentedAt
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Electronic Entertainment Expo 2010
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E3 2010 Game Critics Award for Best Console Game (nomination)
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Electronic Entertainment Expo
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linked to: Electronic Entertainment Expo