Castle Wolfenstein
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Castle Wolfenstein is a pioneering 1981 stealth-action video game by Muse Software, set in a Nazi fortress and widely regarded as a foundational influence on later first-person shooters and stealth games.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Castle Wolfenstein canonical | 5 |
| Beyond Castle Wolfenstein | 1 |
| Wolfenstein (via Castle Wolfenstein) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11250181 — 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: Castle Wolfenstein Context triple: [Wolfenstein 3D, inspiredBy, Castle Wolfenstein]
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A.
Wolfenstein 3D
Wolfenstein 3D is a pioneering 1992 first-person shooter video game that popularized the genre with its fast-paced, maze-like 3D action and Nazi-themed combat.
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B.
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is a standalone first-person shooter prequel to Wolfenstein: The New Order, featuring Nazi occult themes and fast-paced, story-driven action.
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C.
Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot
Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot is a virtual reality first-person shooter set in the Wolfenstein universe, where players control hacked Nazi war machines to aid the French Resistance in an alternate-history 1980s Paris.
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D.
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Wolfenstein: The New Order is a 2014 first-person shooter video game that reboots the classic Wolfenstein series with an alternate-history narrative in which the Nazis won World War II.
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E.
Wolfenstein: Youngblood
Wolfenstein: Youngblood is a cooperative first-person shooter set in an alternate-history Nazi-occupied Paris, where players control BJ Blazkowicz’s twin daughters on a mission to find their missing father.
- 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: Castle Wolfenstein Target entity description: Castle Wolfenstein is a pioneering 1981 stealth-action video game by Muse Software, set in a Nazi fortress and widely regarded as a foundational influence on later first-person shooters and stealth games.
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A.
Wolfenstein 3D
Wolfenstein 3D is a pioneering 1992 first-person shooter video game that popularized the genre with its fast-paced, maze-like 3D action and Nazi-themed combat.
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B.
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is a standalone first-person shooter prequel to Wolfenstein: The New Order, featuring Nazi occult themes and fast-paced, story-driven action.
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C.
Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot
Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot is a virtual reality first-person shooter set in the Wolfenstein universe, where players control hacked Nazi war machines to aid the French Resistance in an alternate-history 1980s Paris.
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D.
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Wolfenstein: The New Order is a 2014 first-person shooter video game that reboots the classic Wolfenstein series with an alternate-history narrative in which the Nazis won World War II.
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E.
Wolfenstein: Youngblood
Wolfenstein: Youngblood is a cooperative first-person shooter set in an alternate-history Nazi-occupied Paris, where players control BJ Blazkowicz’s twin daughters on a mission to find their missing father.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
2D game
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action-adventure game ⓘ stealth game ⓘ video game ⓘ |
| audioFeature | digitized speech on some platforms ⓘ |
| controlScheme | keyboard controls ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| developer | Muse Software ⓘ |
| enemyType |
Nazi guards
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SS troopers ⓘ |
| era | early 1980s home computer games ⓘ |
| gameMode | single-player ⓘ |
| genre |
action-adventure
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stealth ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Beyond Castle Wolfenstein ⓘ |
| influenced |
Wolfenstein 3D
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first-person shooter genre ⓘ stealth game genre ⓘ |
| initialReleasePlatform | Apple II ⓘ |
| mechanic |
limited lives
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lockpicking chests ⓘ searching dead enemies for items ⓘ using enemy uniforms as disguise ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
disguises and enemy uniforms
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early use of stealth mechanics ⓘ limited ammunition and resources ⓘ randomized castle layout ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the earliest stealth-focused games
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influencing id Software’s Wolfenstein series ⓘ |
| objective |
escape from Nazi castle
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steal secret war plans ⓘ |
| perspective | top-down ⓘ |
| platform |
Apple II
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Apple IIgs ⓘ Atari 8-bit family ⓘ Commodore 64 ⓘ IBM PC ⓘ MS-DOS ⓘ PC booter ⓘ |
| protagonistRole | Allied prisoner of war ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| publisher | Muse Software ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| sequelReleaseYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| setting |
Nazi fortress
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World War II ⓘ |
| weapons |
grenades
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pistol ⓘ |
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: Castle Wolfenstein Description of subject: Castle Wolfenstein is a pioneering 1981 stealth-action video game by Muse Software, set in a Nazi fortress and widely regarded as a foundational influence on later first-person shooters and stealth games.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Castle Wolfenstein
linked to: Castle Wolfenstein