Valve
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Valve is a prominent video game developer and digital distribution company best known for creating the Half-Life series and operating the Steam platform.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Valve Corporation | 10 |
| Valve canonical | 6 |
| United States (Valve) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5613369 — 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: Valve Context triple: [DigiPen Institute of Technology, collaboratesWith, Valve]
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A.
Raven Software
Raven Software is an American video game developer best known for its work on first-person shooters and contributions to the Call of Duty franchise.
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B.
Starbreeze Studios
Starbreeze Studios is a Swedish video game developer and publisher known for titles such as the Payday series and for previously publishing the multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight.
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C.
ZeniMax Online Studios
ZeniMax Online Studios is a video game development studio best known for creating the massively multiplayer online role-playing game The Elder Scrolls Online.
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D.
Sledgehammer Games
Sledgehammer Games is an American video game development studio best known for co-developing several titles in the Call of Duty franchise.
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E.
Take-Two Interactive
Take-Two Interactive is a major American video game publisher known for franchises like Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, and NBA 2K.
- 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: Valve Target entity description: Valve is a prominent video game developer and digital distribution company best known for creating the Half-Life series and operating the Steam platform.
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A.
Raven Software
Raven Software is an American video game developer best known for its work on first-person shooters and contributions to the Call of Duty franchise.
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B.
Starbreeze Studios
Starbreeze Studios is a Swedish video game developer and publisher known for titles such as the Payday series and for previously publishing the multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight.
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C.
ZeniMax Online Studios
ZeniMax Online Studios is a video game development studio best known for creating the massively multiplayer online role-playing game The Elder Scrolls Online.
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D.
Sledgehammer Games
Sledgehammer Games is an American video game development studio best known for co-developing several titles in the Call of Duty franchise.
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E.
Take-Two Interactive
Take-Two Interactive is a major American video game publisher known for franchises like Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, and NBA 2K.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
digital distribution platform operator
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software company ⓘ video game company ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| developedHardware |
Steam Controller
NERFINISHED
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Steam Deck NERFINISHED ⓘ Steam Link NERFINISHED ⓘ Steam Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ Valve Index NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developedSoftware |
Source 2 game engine
NERFINISHED
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Source game engine NERFINISHED ⓘ SteamOS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerName | Valve, L.L.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Gabe Newell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mike Harrington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedInCity | Kirkland, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Valve Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| headquartersLocation | Bellevue, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1996 ⓘ |
| industry |
digital distribution
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video games ⓘ virtual reality ⓘ |
| keyPerson | Gabe Newell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Counter-Strike series
NERFINISHED
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Dota 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Half-Life series NERFINISHED ⓘ Left 4 Dead series NERFINISHED ⓘ Portal series NERFINISHED ⓘ Steam digital distribution platform ⓘ Team Fortress series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Artifact
NERFINISHED
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Counter-Strike NERFINISHED ⓘ Counter-Strike 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Counter-Strike: Global Offensive NERFINISHED ⓘ Counter-Strike: Source NERFINISHED ⓘ Day of Defeat NERFINISHED ⓘ Day of Defeat: Source NERFINISHED ⓘ Dota 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Half-Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Half-Life 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Half-Life: Alyx NERFINISHED ⓘ Left 4 Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ Left 4 Dead 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Portal NERFINISHED ⓘ Portal 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Ricochet NERFINISHED ⓘ Team Fortress 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Team Fortress Classic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatorOf |
Steam
NERFINISHED
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Steam Deck Verified program NERFINISHED ⓘ Steam Workshop NERFINISHED ⓘ SteamVR NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOf | Dota Underlords NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Valve Description of subject: Valve is a prominent video game developer and digital distribution company best known for creating the Half-Life series and operating the Steam platform.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Valve
subject linked to:
Wheatley (Portal 2)
linked to: Valve
linked to: Valve
linked to: Valve