Accolade
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Accolade was a prominent American video game developer and publisher known for popular titles in the 1980s and 1990s, later acquired by Infogrames.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Accolade canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12988430 — 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: Accolade Context triple: [Alan Miller, employer, Accolade]
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Back Award
The Back Award is a prestigious honor given by the Royal Geographical Society for notable contributions to the development or application of geographical knowledge.
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Achievement Medal
The Achievement Medal is a United States military decoration awarded to service members for outstanding meritorious service or achievement that does not meet the criteria for a higher-level award.
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Acclaim
Acclaim is a virtual reality product or platform associated with the VR Commodore system.
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Laudot
Laudot is a small river in southern France that serves as the main feeder stream for the Lac de Saint-Ferréol reservoir, historically linked to the Canal du Midi water system.
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Award of Excellence
The Award of Excellence is a UNESCO distinction recognizing outstanding efforts in preserving and promoting cultural heritage with exceptional quality and authenticity.
- 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: Accolade Target entity description: Accolade was a prominent American video game developer and publisher known for popular titles in the 1980s and 1990s, later acquired by Infogrames.
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A.
Back Award
The Back Award is a prestigious honor given by the Royal Geographical Society for notable contributions to the development or application of geographical knowledge.
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B.
Achievement Medal
The Achievement Medal is a United States military decoration awarded to service members for outstanding meritorious service or achievement that does not meet the criteria for a higher-level award.
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C.
Acclaim
Acclaim is a virtual reality product or platform associated with the VR Commodore system.
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D.
Laudot
Laudot is a small river in southern France that serves as the main feeder stream for the Lac de Saint-Ferréol reservoir, historically linked to the Canal du Midi water system.
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E.
Award of Excellence
The Award of Excellence is a UNESCO distinction recognizing outstanding efforts in preserving and promoting cultural heritage with exceptional quality and authenticity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
video game company
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video game developer ⓘ video game publisher ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Infogrames NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionType | corporate acquisition ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ |
| businessModel | commercial software sales ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| distributionChannel | retail boxed games ⓘ |
| era |
16-bit console era
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home computer gaming era ⓘ |
| fate | acquired by Infogrames ⓘ |
| hasGameSeries |
Bubsy series
NERFINISHED
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HardBall! series NERFINISHED ⓘ Test Drive series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Jose, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | video games ⓘ |
| knownFor |
publishing video games for game consoles
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publishing video games for home computers ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| market |
Europe
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North America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
platform games
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racing video games ⓘ sports video games ⓘ |
| notableGame |
4th & Inches
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Bubsy II NERFINISHED ⓘ Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind NERFINISHED ⓘ Gunboat NERFINISHED ⓘ HardBall II NERFINISHED ⓘ HardBall III NERFINISHED ⓘ HardBall! NERFINISHED ⓘ Mean 18 NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Control NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Control II NERFINISHED ⓘ Test Drive NERFINISHED ⓘ Test Drive II NERFINISHED ⓘ Test Drive III NERFINISHED ⓘ The Grandest Fleet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platformPublishedOn |
Amiga
NERFINISHED
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Commodore 64 NERFINISHED ⓘ MS-DOS NERFINISHED ⓘ PlayStation NERFINISHED ⓘ Sega Genesis NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Nintendo Entertainment System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInIndustry | third-party game publisher ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
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: Accolade Description of subject: Accolade was a prominent American video game developer and publisher known for popular titles in the 1980s and 1990s, later acquired by Infogrames.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.