Midway Games
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Midway Games was an American video game company best known for publishing and developing popular arcade and console titles such as the Mortal Kombat series.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Midway Games canonical | 51 |
| midway games | 2 |
| Midway Games Chicago studio | 1 |
| Midway Games Inc. | 1 |
| Midway Games West | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2433020 — 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: Midway Games Context triple: [Doom franchise, publisher, Midway Games]
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Take-Two Interactive
Take-Two Interactive is a major American video game publisher known for franchises like Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, and NBA 2K.
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B.
Activision Publishing
Activision Publishing is a major American video game publisher best known for franchises like Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.
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C.
Activision Blizzard
Activision Blizzard is a major American video game holding company known for franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch.
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D.
Annapurna Interactive
Annapurna Interactive is a video game publisher known for curating and releasing critically acclaimed, artistically driven indie games such as "What Remains of Edith Finch," "Outer Wilds," and "Stray."
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E.
Bethesda Softworks
Bethesda Softworks is a prominent American video game publisher and developer best known for franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.
- 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: Midway Games Target entity description: Midway Games was an American video game company best known for publishing and developing popular arcade and console titles such as the Mortal Kombat series.
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A.
Take-Two Interactive
Take-Two Interactive is a major American video game publisher known for franchises like Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, and NBA 2K.
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B.
Activision Publishing
Activision Publishing is a major American video game publisher best known for franchises like Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.
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C.
Activision Blizzard
Activision Blizzard is a major American video game holding company known for franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch.
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D.
Annapurna Interactive
Annapurna Interactive is a video game publisher known for curating and releasing critically acclaimed, artistically driven indie games such as "What Remains of Edith Finch," "Outer Wilds," and "Stray."
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E.
Bethesda Softworks
Bethesda Softworks is a prominent American video game publisher and developer best known for franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Midway Games Description of subject: Midway Games was an American video game company best known for publishing and developing popular arcade and console titles such as the Mortal Kombat series.
Referenced by (56)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Doom franchise (via id Software)
linked to: Midway Games
linked to: Midway Games
linked to: Midway Games
subject linked to:
Cruis'n series