Nintendo R&D2
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Nintendo R&D2 was an internal Nintendo development division known for creating and porting handheld and early console games, particularly for the Game Boy and related systems.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nintendo R&D2 canonical | 3 |
| Nintendo Research & Development 2 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13196668 — 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)
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Target entity: Nintendo R&D2 Context triple: [Super Mario Advance, developer, Nintendo R&D2]
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Nintendo R&D1
Nintendo R&D1 was a pioneering internal development team at Nintendo responsible for creating several of the company’s most influential hardware systems and game franchises, including early handheld consoles and titles like Metroid and WarioWare.
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Nintendo R&D4
Nintendo R&D4 was a key internal development division of Nintendo best known for creating the original Super Mario Bros. and pioneering many of the company’s classic NES-era franchises.
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Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development was Nintendo’s famed internal development division responsible for creating many of its most iconic game franchises, including Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda.
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Nintendo
Nintendo is a Japanese video game company best known for creating iconic franchises such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon, as well as popular gaming consoles like the Nintendo Switch.
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Nintendo Revolution
Nintendo Revolution was the early codename for Nintendo's Wii console, a motion-controlled gaming system that significantly broadened the video game audience.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Nintendo R&D2 Target entity description: Nintendo R&D2 was an internal Nintendo development division known for creating and porting handheld and early console games, particularly for the Game Boy and related systems.
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Nintendo R&D1
Nintendo R&D1 was a pioneering internal development team at Nintendo responsible for creating several of the company’s most influential hardware systems and game franchises, including early handheld consoles and titles like Metroid and WarioWare.
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Nintendo R&D4
Nintendo R&D4 was a key internal development division of Nintendo best known for creating the original Super Mario Bros. and pioneering many of the company’s classic NES-era franchises.
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Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development was Nintendo’s famed internal development division responsible for creating many of its most iconic game franchises, including Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda.
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Nintendo
Nintendo is a Japanese video game company best known for creating iconic franchises such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon, as well as popular gaming consoles like the Nintendo Switch.
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Nintendo Revolution
Nintendo Revolution was the early codename for Nintendo's Wii console, a motion-controlled gaming system that significantly broadened the video game audience.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nintendo development division
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video game development team ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Nintendo Research & Development 2
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linked to:
Nintendo R&D2
R&D2 ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| developed |
Balloon Fight (NES)
ⓘ
linked to:
Balloon Fight
Balloon Kid ⓘ
linked to:
Balloon Fight
Baseball (NES) ⓘ Clu Clu Land (NES) ⓘ
linked to:
Clu Clu Land
Dr. Mario (Game Boy version) ⓘ
linked to:
Dr. Mario
Duck Hunt (NES) ⓘ
linked to:
Duck Hunt
For the Frog the Bell Tolls (localization title of Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru) ⓘ Game Boy Wars ⓘ Golf (NES) ⓘ Gumshoe (NES) ⓘ Gyromite (NES) ⓘ Hogan’s Alley (NES) ⓘ Ice Climber (NES) ⓘ
linked to:
Ice Climber
Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru ⓘ Kid Icarus (NES) ⓘ
linked to:
Kid Icarus
Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters ⓘ
linked to:
Kid Icarus
Mach Rider (NES) ⓘ
linked to:
Excitebike (NES version)
Metroid (NES) ⓘ
linked to:
Metroid
Metroid II: Return of Samus ⓘ NES Open Tournament Golf ⓘ
linked to:
Mario Golf
Stack-Up (NES) ⓘ
linked to:
Stack-Up
Super Mario Land ⓘ Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins ⓘ Tennis (NES) ⓘ The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening ⓘ
linked to:
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Urban Champion (NES) ⓘ Wild Gunman (NES) ⓘ
linked to:
Wild Gunman (arcade)
Wrecking Crew (NES) ⓘ various Game & Watch titles ⓘ |
| developedForPlatform |
Famicom
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linked to:
Famicom Disk System
Game & Watch ⓘ Game Boy ⓘ Game Boy Advance ⓘ Game Boy Color ⓘ Nintendo Entertainment System ⓘ |
| field |
hardware development
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video game development ⓘ |
| focus |
handheld game design
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porting console games to handheld systems ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Game & Watch software development
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Game Boy software development ⓘ early Nintendo Entertainment System game development ⓘ game ports to handheld systems ⓘ handheld game development ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Nintendo ⓘ |
| partOf | Nintendo Research & Development ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Nintendo R&D2 Description of subject: Nintendo R&D2 was an internal Nintendo development division known for creating and porting handheld and early console games, particularly for the Game Boy and related systems.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nintendo R&D2