Domineering
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Domineering is a two-player abstract strategy board game in which players alternately place dominoes in restricted orientations on a grid, aiming to block the opponent from making a legal move.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Domineering canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7031094 — 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: Domineering Context triple: [Part Two: Games, hasWorkExample, Domineering]
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A.
Twixt
Twixt is a 2011 gothic horror film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, blending supernatural mystery with a meta-narrative about a struggling writer.
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B.
Dominoes
"Dominoes" is a track from Paul McCartney’s 2018 album *Egypt Station*, known for its melodic pop-rock style and reflective lyrics.
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C.
Domino
"Domino" is a 1970 upbeat rhythm and blues song by Van Morrison, known for its soulful horn arrangements and enduring popularity in his catalog.
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D.
Domino
"Domino" is a 2019 crime thriller film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Édgar Ramírez, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and Carice van Houten, centered on a Copenhagen police officer entangled in a web of terrorism and CIA intrigue.
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E.
Domino
"Domino" is a 2011 upbeat pop song by English singer-songwriter Jessie J that became one of her most commercially successful and internationally recognized hits.
- 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: Domineering Target entity description: Domineering is a two-player abstract strategy board game in which players alternately place dominoes in restricted orientations on a grid, aiming to block the opponent from making a legal move.
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A.
Twixt
Twixt is a 2011 gothic horror film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, blending supernatural mystery with a meta-narrative about a struggling writer.
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B.
Dominoes
"Dominoes" is a track from Paul McCartney’s 2018 album *Egypt Station*, known for its melodic pop-rock style and reflective lyrics.
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C.
Domino
"Domino" is a 1970 upbeat rhythm and blues song by Van Morrison, known for its soulful horn arrangements and enduring popularity in his catalog.
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D.
Domino
"Domino" is a 2019 crime thriller film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Édgar Ramírez, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and Carice van Houten, centered on a Copenhagen police officer entangled in a web of terrorism and CIA intrigue.
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E.
Domino
"Domino" is a 2011 upbeat pop song by English singer-songwriter Jessie J that became one of her most commercially successful and internationally recognized hits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abstract strategy game
ⓘ
deterministic game ⓘ perfect information game ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Crosscram
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Dominoes ⓘ Stop-Gate ⓘ |
| hasBoardRepresentation | grid of squares ⓘ |
| hasChanceElements | none ⓘ |
| hasGameEndCondition | no legal moves available to current player ⓘ |
| hasGoal | to block the opponent from making a legal move ⓘ |
| hasInformationStructure | perfect information ⓘ |
| hasMathematicalInterest | high ⓘ |
| hasMoveRestriction |
dominoes may not overlap
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dominoes must lie entirely within the board ⓘ |
| hasMoveType | placement of dominoes ⓘ |
| hasOrientationRule |
one player places horizontal dominoes
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one player places vertical dominoes ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | 20th century ⓘ |
| hasOutcomeClass | depends on board dimensions ⓘ |
| hasPieceShape | 1×2 rectangle ⓘ |
| hasPlayerCount | 2 ⓘ |
| hasRule | players cannot pass their turn ⓘ |
| hasStrategyType |
blocking strategy
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positional play ⓘ |
| hasTurnStructure | players move alternately ⓘ |
| hasTypicalBoardSize |
8x8 grid
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various m×n rectangular boards ⓘ |
| hasWinningCondition | last player to make a legal move wins ⓘ |
| isAnalyzedUsing | normal play convention ⓘ |
| isDeterministic | true ⓘ |
| isPartOfField | combinatorial game theory ⓘ |
| isPerfectInformation | true ⓘ |
| isPlayableOn |
computer implementations
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paper ⓘ |
| isRelatedTo |
Cram
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Go ⓘ Hackenbush ⓘ other partizan games ⓘ |
| isTurnBased | true ⓘ |
| isUsedFor |
examples in combinatorial game theory literature
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studying partizan game values ⓘ |
| isZeroSum | true ⓘ |
| usesBoardType | rectangular grid ⓘ |
| usesPieces | dominoes ⓘ |
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: Domineering Description of subject: Domineering is a two-player abstract strategy board game in which players alternately place dominoes in restricted orientations on a grid, aiming to block the opponent from making a legal move.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.