Centipede
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Centipede is a classic fixed-shooter arcade video game from the early 1980s, known for its fast-paced insect-blasting gameplay and iconic status in Atari’s golden age lineup.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Centipede canonical | 6 |
| Centipede: Recharged | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5015298 — 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: Centipede Context triple: [Atari, Inc., notableGame, Centipede]
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A.
Centipede
"Centipede" is a 1984 R&B single by Rebbie Jackson, written and produced by Michael Jackson, that became her signature hit.
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B.
Tarantula
Tarantula is an experimental, stream-of-consciousness prose poetry book by Bob Dylan, reflecting his surreal and avant-garde literary style of the 1960s.
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C.
Harvestman
Harvestman is a post-metal musical project led by Steve Von Till of Neurosis, known for its atmospheric, folk-influenced soundscapes.
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D.
Pająk
Pająk is a Polish surname borne by various notable individuals, including politicians, athletes, and public figures.
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E.
Spiders
Spiders was the nickname of the Cleveland Spiders, a late-19th-century Major League Baseball team best known for its historically poor 1899 season.
- 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: Centipede Target entity description: Centipede is a classic fixed-shooter arcade video game from the early 1980s, known for its fast-paced insect-blasting gameplay and iconic status in Atari’s golden age lineup.
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A.
Centipede
"Centipede" is a 1984 R&B single by Rebbie Jackson, written and produced by Michael Jackson, that became her signature hit.
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B.
Tarantula
Tarantula is an experimental, stream-of-consciousness prose poetry book by Bob Dylan, reflecting his surreal and avant-garde literary style of the 1960s.
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C.
Harvestman
Harvestman is a post-metal musical project led by Steve Von Till of Neurosis, known for its atmospheric, folk-influenced soundscapes.
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D.
Pająk
Pająk is a Polish surname borne by various notable individuals, including politicians, athletes, and public figures.
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E.
Spiders
Spiders was the nickname of the Cleveland Spiders, a late-19th-century Major League Baseball team best known for its historically poor 1899 season.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Atari arcade game
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arcade video game ⓘ fixed shooter ⓘ |
| cabinetType |
cocktail arcade cabinet
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upright arcade cabinet ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| designer |
Donna Bailey
ⓘ
Ed Logg ⓘ |
| developer | Atari, Inc. ⓘ |
| enemy |
centipede
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flea ⓘ scorpion ⓘ spider ⓘ |
| gameMode |
single-player
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two-player alternating ⓘ |
| genre | fixed shooter ⓘ |
| hasRemake |
Centipede: Recharged
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linked to:
Centipede
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| inputDevice | trackball ⓘ |
| legacy | considered a classic of the golden age of arcade video games ⓘ |
| mechanic |
increasing speed and difficulty over time
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mushrooms change centipede direction ⓘ player shoots segments and mushrooms for points ⓘ segment-based centipede that descends through mushrooms ⓘ |
| notableFor |
colorful mushroom-filled playfield
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fast-paced gameplay ⓘ prominent female co-designer Donna Bailey ⓘ trackball controls ⓘ |
| obstacle | mushroom ⓘ |
| originalPublisherRegion | North America ⓘ |
| partOf | Atari golden age lineup ⓘ |
| perspective | top-down ⓘ |
| platform |
Apple II
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Atari 2600 ⓘ Atari 5200 ⓘ Atari 7800 ⓘ Atari 8-bit family ⓘ ColecoVision ⓘ Commodore 64 ⓘ Game Boy ⓘ IBM PC ⓘ Intellivision ⓘ arcade ⓘ various home computers ⓘ |
| playerControls | small shooter at bottom of screen ⓘ |
| publisher | Atari, Inc. ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1981 ⓘ |
| setting | mushroom field ⓘ |
| successor | Millipede ⓘ |
| theme | insects ⓘ |
| visualStyle | 2D raster graphics ⓘ |
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: Centipede Description of subject: Centipede is a classic fixed-shooter arcade video game from the early 1980s, known for its fast-paced insect-blasting gameplay and iconic status in Atari’s golden age lineup.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.