id Software
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id Software is an American video game developer best known for pioneering the first-person shooter genre with titles like Doom and Quake.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| id Software canonical | 180 |
| id Software (collaborating studio on Wolfenstein series) | 1 |
| id Software (publisher of Heretic) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T416740 — 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)
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Target entity: id Software Context triple: [ZeniMax Media, owns, id Software]
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A.
Infinity Ward
Infinity Ward is an American video game developer best known as the original creator of the Call of Duty franchise.
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B.
ZeniMax Media
ZeniMax Media is a video game holding company best known as the parent of Bethesda Softworks, the publisher of major franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.
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C.
Activision Blizzard
Activision Blizzard is a major American video game holding company known for franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch.
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D.
LucasArts
LucasArts is an American video game company best known for its influential adventure games and Star Wars titles, originally established as the games division of George Lucas’s entertainment empire.
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E.
Mojang Studios
Mojang Studios is a Swedish video game developer best known as the creator of the sandbox phenomenon Minecraft.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: id Software Target entity description: id Software is an American video game developer best known for pioneering the first-person shooter genre with titles like Doom and Quake.
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A.
Infinity Ward
Infinity Ward is an American video game developer best known as the original creator of the Call of Duty franchise.
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B.
ZeniMax Media
ZeniMax Media is a video game holding company best known as the parent of Bethesda Softworks, the publisher of major franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.
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C.
Activision Blizzard
Activision Blizzard is a major American video game holding company known for franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch.
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D.
LucasArts
LucasArts is an American video game company best known for its influential adventure games and Star Wars titles, originally established as the games division of George Lucas’s entertainment empire.
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E.
Mojang Studios
Mojang Studios is a Swedish video game developer best known as the creator of the sandbox phenomenon Minecraft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: id Software Description of subject: id Software is an American video game developer best known for pioneering the first-person shooter genre with titles like Doom and Quake.
Referenced by (182)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Doom franchise (via id Software)
subject linked to:
Doom franchise (via id Software)
subject linked to:
Doom franchise (via id Software)
subject linked to:
Quake franchise (via id Software)
subject linked to:
Quake franchise (via id Software)
subject linked to:
Commander Keen
subject linked to:
id Tech engine
subject linked to:
Heretic (video game)
subject linked to:
Doom (2016)