Houdini
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Houdini is a powerful commercial chess engine renowned for its creative attacking style and strong performance in top computer chess competitions.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Houdini canonical | 8 |
| Houdini 2.0 | 1 |
| Houdini 3.0 | 1 |
| Houdini 4 | 1 |
| Houdini 5 | 1 |
| Houdini 6 | 1 |
| Houdini 6.03 | 1 |
| Houdini 6.03 Pro | 1 |
| Houdini 6.03a | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8993034 — 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: Houdini Context triple: [Stockfish, notableCompetition, Houdini]
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A.
Houdini
Houdini is most famously Harry Houdini, the early 20th-century illusionist and escape artist renowned for his daring stunts and seemingly impossible escapes.
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B.
Houdini's Great Escape
Houdini's Great Escape is a haunted-house–themed illusion ride at Six Flags Great Adventure that combines theatrical effects with motion-simulation to create a disorienting escape-room experience.
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C.
Golem
Golem is a classic 1915 science fiction novel by Polish writer Gustav Meyrink that reimagines the Jewish legend of a mystical clay creature brought to life in the Prague ghetto.
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D.
Blixem
Blixem is an alternative name for Blitzen, one of Santa Claus’s traditional flying reindeer known from the Christmas poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas.”
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E.
Stockach
Stockach is a small town in southern Germany’s Baden-Württemberg state, situated near Lake Constance and known historically as a regional administrative and market center.
- 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: Houdini Target entity description: Houdini is a powerful commercial chess engine renowned for its creative attacking style and strong performance in top computer chess competitions.
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A.
Houdini
Houdini is most famously Harry Houdini, the early 20th-century illusionist and escape artist renowned for his daring stunts and seemingly impossible escapes.
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B.
Houdini's Great Escape
Houdini's Great Escape is a haunted-house–themed illusion ride at Six Flags Great Adventure that combines theatrical effects with motion-simulation to create a disorienting escape-room experience.
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C.
Golem
Golem is a classic 1915 science fiction novel by Polish writer Gustav Meyrink that reimagines the Jewish legend of a mystical clay creature brought to life in the Prague ghetto.
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D.
Blixem
Blixem is an alternative name for Blitzen, one of Santa Claus’s traditional flying reindeer known from the Christmas poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas.”
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E.
Stockach
Stockach is a small town in southern Germany’s Baden-Württemberg state, situated near Lake Constance and known historically as a regional administrative and market center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chess engine
ⓘ
commercial software ⓘ computer chess program ⓘ |
| hasCategory | top-tier computer chess engine ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfOrigin | Belgium ⓘ |
| hasDeveloper | Robert Houdart ⓘ |
| hasDistributionModel | commercial ⓘ |
| hasEvaluationStyle |
resourceful defense
ⓘ
tactically aggressive ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
64-bit support
ⓘ
SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) ⓘ analysis mode ⓘ endgame tablebase support ⓘ multi-core support ⓘ pondering ⓘ time management controls ⓘ |
| hasFirstReleaseYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| hasGenre | computer chess ⓘ |
| hasInterfaceCompatibility |
Arena Chess GUI
ⓘ
linked to:
XBoard/WinBoard protocol
ChessBase GUIs ⓘ other UCI-compatible GUIs ⓘ |
| hasLicense | proprietary software license ⓘ |
| hasMajorVersion |
Houdini 1.5
ⓘ
Houdini 2.0 ⓘ
linked to:
Houdini
Houdini 3.0 ⓘ
linked to:
Houdini
Houdini 4 ⓘ
linked to:
Houdini
Houdini 5 ⓘ
linked to:
Houdini
Houdini 6 ⓘ
linked to:
Houdini
Houdini 6.03 ⓘ
linked to:
Houdini
Houdini 6.03 Pro ⓘ
linked to:
Houdini
Houdini 6.03a ⓘ
linked to:
Houdini
|
| hasNameOrigin | Harry Houdini ⓘ |
| hasOptimizationTarget | x86-64 processors ⓘ |
| hasPlayingStyle |
practical
ⓘ
resourceful in difficult positions ⓘ |
| hasProgrammingLanguage | C++ ⓘ |
| hasReputation | one of the strongest chess engines of the early 2010s ⓘ |
| hasUseCase |
endgame analysis
ⓘ
engine analysis for human players ⓘ engine vs. engine tournaments ⓘ opening preparation ⓘ |
| isDistributedAs | binary executable ⓘ |
| isRenownedFor |
creative attacking style
ⓘ
strong performance in computer chess competitions ⓘ |
| previouslyHadDistributionModel | free for non‑commercial use ⓘ |
| runsOn |
Microsoft Windows
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
|
| supportsProtocol | UCI ⓘ |
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: Houdini Description of subject: Houdini is a powerful commercial chess engine renowned for its creative attacking style and strong performance in top computer chess competitions.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Houdini
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Houdini
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Houdini
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subject linked to:
Houdini
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subject linked to:
Houdini
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subject linked to:
Houdini
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Houdini
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Houdini
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