GameStop
E1023270
company listed on the New York Stock Exchange
consumer electronics retailer
public company
retail company
video game retailer
GameStop is a major American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer known for its chain of brick-and-mortar stores and prominent role in gaming culture and finance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GameStop canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13128800 — 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: GameStop Context triple: [No. 20 car in NASCAR Cup Series, hasSponsor, GameStop]
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A.
Best Buy
Best Buy is a major American consumer electronics retail chain known for selling computers, appliances, and entertainment products through large-format stores and online.
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B.
Toys "R" Us
Toys "R" Us was a major American toy and juvenile-products retail chain known for its large-format stores and iconic Geoffrey the Giraffe mascot.
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C.
Sky Store
Sky Store is a digital video-on-demand and movie purchase/rental service operated by the British media and telecommunications company Sky in the UK and Ireland.
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D.
Gateway Country Stores
Gateway Country Stores was a chain of retail outlets associated with computer manufacturer Gateway, Inc., offering its PCs and related technology products directly to consumers.
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E.
Future Shop
Future Shop was a major Canadian consumer electronics retail chain that became one of the country’s largest big-box tech retailers before its eventual closure and conversion of many locations to Best Buy.
- 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: GameStop Target entity description: GameStop is a major American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer known for its chain of brick-and-mortar stores and prominent role in gaming culture and finance.
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A.
Best Buy
Best Buy is a major American consumer electronics retail chain known for selling computers, appliances, and entertainment products through large-format stores and online.
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B.
Toys "R" Us
Toys "R" Us was a major American toy and juvenile-products retail chain known for its large-format stores and iconic Geoffrey the Giraffe mascot.
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C.
Sky Store
Sky Store is a digital video-on-demand and movie purchase/rental service operated by the British media and telecommunications company Sky in the UK and Ireland.
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D.
Gateway Country Stores
Gateway Country Stores was a chain of retail outlets associated with computer manufacturer Gateway, Inc., offering its PCs and related technology products directly to consumers.
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E.
Future Shop
Future Shop was a major Canadian consumer electronics retail chain that became one of the country’s largest big-box tech retailers before its eventual closure and conversion of many locations to Best Buy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company listed on the New York Stock Exchange
ⓘ
consumer electronics retailer ⓘ public company ⓘ retail company ⓘ video game retailer ⓘ |
| brand |
GameStop Pro membership
ⓘ
PowerUp Rewards ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| faced | decline in physical game sales with rise of digital distribution ⓘ |
| formerName | Babbage's ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Daniel DeMatteo
ⓘ
Leonard Riggio ⓘ Richard Fontaine ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfEmployees | tens of thousands ⓘ |
| hasOnlinePresence | gamestop.com ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
EB Games
ⓘ
Game Informer ⓘ Micromania-Zing ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Grapevine, Texas, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Grapevine, Texas
|
| inception | 1984 ⓘ |
| industry |
collectibles
ⓘ
consumer electronics ⓘ retail ⓘ video games ⓘ |
| involvedIn | retail investor trading surge in early 2021 ⓘ |
| keyPerson |
Matt Furlong
ⓘ
Ryan Cohen ⓘ |
| keyPersonRole | executive chairman ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| market |
Australia
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
large chain of mall-based stores
ⓘ
meme stock phenomenon ⓘ role in video game culture ⓘ short squeeze event in 2021 ⓘ trade-in program for video games and electronics ⓘ |
| operatesInSector |
brick-and-mortar retail
ⓘ
e-commerce ⓘ |
| owns | Game Informer ⓘ |
| productOrService |
collectibles and gaming merchandise
ⓘ
consumer electronics ⓘ gaming accessories ⓘ new video games ⓘ pre-owned video games ⓘ video game consoles ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | GME ⓘ |
| tradedAs | meme stock ⓘ |
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: GameStop Description of subject: GameStop is a major American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer known for its chain of brick-and-mortar stores and prominent role in gaming culture and finance.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.