Nintendo eShop
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Nintendo eShop is Nintendo’s official online marketplace for purchasing and downloading digital games, add-ons, and other content on its gaming platforms.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nintendo eShop canonical | 7 |
| Australian Nintendo eShop | 1 |
| European Nintendo eShop | 1 |
| Japanese Nintendo eShop | 1 |
| Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS | 1 |
| Nintendo eShop for Wii U | 1 |
| North American Nintendo eShop | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2557219 — 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 eShop Context triple: [Nintendo Switch, digitalStorefront, Nintendo eShop]
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A.
Wii Shop Channel
The Wii Shop Channel was Nintendo's digital storefront for the Wii, used to purchase and download games, Virtual Console titles, and other software.
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B.
PlayStation Store
PlayStation Store is Sony’s official digital marketplace for purchasing and downloading games, add-ons, and other media for PlayStation consoles.
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C.
Wii Internet Channel
The Wii Internet Channel was a downloadable web browser for Nintendo's Wii console that allowed users to surf the internet on their TV.
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D.
Wii U
The Wii U is Nintendo’s eighth-generation home video game console that introduced a tablet-like GamePad controller with a built-in touchscreen for dual-screen and asymmetric gameplay.
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E.
Nintendo Switch
The Nintendo Switch is a hybrid video game console by Nintendo that functions as both a home console and portable handheld system, featuring detachable controllers and a diverse library of games.
- 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 eShop Target entity description: Nintendo eShop is Nintendo’s official online marketplace for purchasing and downloading digital games, add-ons, and other content on its gaming platforms.
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A.
Wii Shop Channel
The Wii Shop Channel was Nintendo's digital storefront for the Wii, used to purchase and download games, Virtual Console titles, and other software.
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B.
PlayStation Store
PlayStation Store is Sony’s official digital marketplace for purchasing and downloading games, add-ons, and other media for PlayStation consoles.
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C.
Wii Internet Channel
The Wii Internet Channel was a downloadable web browser for Nintendo's Wii console that allowed users to surf the internet on their TV.
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D.
Wii U
The Wii U is Nintendo’s eighth-generation home video game console that introduced a tablet-like GamePad controller with a built-in touchscreen for dual-screen and asymmetric gameplay.
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E.
Nintendo Switch
The Nintendo Switch is a hybrid video game console by Nintendo that functions as both a home console and portable handheld system, featuring detachable controllers and a diverse library of games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
digital distribution platform
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online marketplace ⓘ online store ⓘ |
| availableOnPlatform |
Nintendo 3DS
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Nintendo Switch ⓘ Wii U ⓘ |
| developer | Nintendo ⓘ |
| discontinuationDateOnPlatform | 2023-03-27 (Nintendo 3DS and Wii U) ⓘ |
| discontinuedOnPlatform |
Nintendo 3DS
ⓘ
Wii U ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
category browsing
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digital purchases ⓘ game downloads ⓘ news and featured titles ⓘ pre-purchase of games ⓘ redeeming download codes ⓘ sales and discounts ⓘ search function ⓘ user reviews (region-dependent) ⓘ wish list (on supported systems) ⓘ |
| hasRegionalVersion |
Nintendo eShop
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Australian Nintendo eShop
Nintendo eShop self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
European Nintendo eShop
Nintendo eShop self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Japanese Nintendo eShop
Nintendo eShop self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
North American Nintendo eShop
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| launchDate | 2011-06-06 ⓘ |
| launchDateOnPlatform |
2012-12-08 (Wii U)
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2017-03-03 (Nintendo Switch) ⓘ |
| operator | Nintendo ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Nintendo ⓘ |
| platformFor |
applications
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digital video games ⓘ downloadable content ⓘ game demos ⓘ virtual console titles ⓘ |
| primaryUse | purchasing digital games for Nintendo platforms ⓘ |
| regionLocked | true ⓘ |
| requiresAccount |
Nintendo Account (for Nintendo Switch)
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Nintendo Network ID (for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS) ⓘ |
| supportsContentType |
add-ons
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applications ⓘ downloadable content ⓘ free-to-start games ⓘ full games ⓘ game demos ⓘ themes ⓘ virtual console games ⓘ |
| supportsCurrency | Nintendo eShop funds ⓘ |
| supportsDigitalRightsManagement | yes ⓘ |
| supportsPaymentMethod |
Nintendo eShop Card
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credit card ⓘ debit card ⓘ prepaid funds ⓘ |
| website | https://www.nintendo.com/eshop/ ⓘ |
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: Nintendo eShop Description of subject: Nintendo eShop is Nintendo’s official online marketplace for purchasing and downloading digital games, add-ons, and other content on its gaming platforms.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS
this entity surface form:
Nintendo eShop for Wii U
this entity surface form:
Japanese Nintendo eShop
this entity surface form:
North American Nintendo eShop
this entity surface form:
European Nintendo eShop
this entity surface form:
Australian Nintendo eShop