2K Games
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2K Games is a major American video game publisher known for franchises such as NBA 2K, BioShock, Borderlands, and Civilization.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3778331 — 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: 2K Games Context triple: [2K, owns, 2K 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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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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Midway Games
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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EA Sports
EA Sports is a video game brand of Electronic Arts best known for developing popular sports game franchises such as FIFA (now EA Sports FC) and Madden NFL.
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E.
505 Games
505 Games is an Italian video game publisher known for bringing a wide range of indie and mid-sized titles to global markets, including high-profile releases like Death Stranding on PC.
- 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: 2K Games Target entity description: 2K Games is a major American video game publisher known for franchises such as NBA 2K, BioShock, Borderlands, and Civilization.
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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 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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C.
Midway Games
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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D.
EA Sports
EA Sports is a video game brand of Electronic Arts best known for developing popular sports game franchises such as FIFA (now EA Sports FC) and Madden NFL.
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E.
505 Games
505 Games is an Italian video game publisher known for bringing a wide range of indie and mid-sized titles to global markets, including high-profile releases like Death Stranding on PC.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
video game publisher ⓘ |
| brandOf | Take-Two Interactive ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributesToPlatform |
Nintendo Switch
ⓘ
PC ⓘ PlayStation ⓘ Xbox ⓘ |
| division |
2K Czech
ⓘ
2K Marin ⓘ 2K Play ⓘ 2K Games self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
2K Sports
Cloud Chamber ⓘ Firaxis Games ⓘ Hangar 13 ⓘ Visual Concepts ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Take-Two Interactive ⓘ |
| genreFocus |
first-person shooters
ⓘ
role-playing games ⓘ sports video games ⓘ strategy games ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://2k.com/ ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Novato, California NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| inception | 2005 ⓘ |
| industry | video games ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| ownsBrand |
2K Play
ⓘ
2K Games self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
2K Sports
|
| parentCompany | Take-Two Interactive ⓘ |
| product |
BioShock franchise
ⓘ
surface form:
BioShock series
Borderlands ⓘ
surface form:
Borderlands series
Civilization franchise ⓘ
surface form:
Civilization series
Mafia series ⓘ NBA 2K ⓘ
surface form:
NBA 2K series
XCOM series ⓘ |
| publisherOf |
BioShock Remastered
ⓘ
surface form:
BioShock
BioShock 2 ⓘ BioShock Infinite ⓘ Borderlands ⓘ Borderlands ⓘ
surface form:
Borderlands 2
Borderlands 3 ⓘ Mafia series ⓘ
surface form:
Mafia II
Mafia series ⓘ
surface form:
Mafia III
NBA 2K ⓘ NBA 2K ⓘ
surface form:
NBA 2K22
NBA 2K ⓘ
surface form:
NBA 2K23
NBA 2K ⓘ
surface form:
NBA 2K24
PGA Tour 2K ⓘ Sid Meier's Civilization IV ⓘ Sid Meier's Civilization V ⓘ Sid Meier's Civilization VI ⓘ WWE 2K video game series ⓘ
surface form:
WWE 2K
XCOM series ⓘ
surface form:
XCOM 2
XCOM series ⓘ
surface form:
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
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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: 2K Games Description of subject: 2K Games is a major American video game publisher known for franchises such as NBA 2K, BioShock, Borderlands, and Civilization.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
2K Sports
this entity surface form:
2K Sports
this entity surface form:
2K Sports
this entity surface form:
2K Sports
this entity surface form:
2K Sports
subject surface form:
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
subject surface form:
Mafia II