Epic Games
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Epic Games is an American video game and software developer best known for creating Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game development platform.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Epic Games canonical | 14 |
| Epic Games Store | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4597866 — 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: Epic Games Context triple: [Tencent, majorShareholderOf, Epic Games]
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Meta
Meta is a multinational technology company best known as the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, focusing on social media platforms and virtual/augmented reality technologies.
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Meta
Meta is a coastal town on Italy’s Sorrento Peninsula, known for its beaches, cliffs, and proximity to Naples and the Amalfi Coast.
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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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Rovio Entertainment
Rovio Entertainment is a Finnish video game developer and entertainment company best known for creating the Angry Birds franchise.
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E.
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment is a renowned American video game developer and publisher best known for creating major franchises such as Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo.
- 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: Epic Games Target entity description: Epic Games is an American video game and software developer best known for creating Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game development platform.
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A.
Meta
Meta is a multinational technology company best known as the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, focusing on social media platforms and virtual/augmented reality technologies.
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B.
Meta
Meta is a coastal town on Italy’s Sorrento Peninsula, known for its beaches, cliffs, and proximity to Naples and the Amalfi Coast.
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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.
Rovio Entertainment
Rovio Entertainment is a Finnish video game developer and entertainment company best known for creating the Angry Birds franchise.
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E.
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment is a renowned American video game developer and publisher best known for creating major franchises such as Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
privately held company
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software company ⓘ video game company ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| created | Epic Games Store NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developed |
Fortnite
NERFINISHED
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Gears of War NERFINISHED ⓘ Infinity Blade NERFINISHED ⓘ Jazz Jackrabbit NERFINISHED ⓘ Unreal Engine NERFINISHED ⓘ Unreal Tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| engineDeveloped |
Unreal Engine 1
NERFINISHED
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Unreal Engine 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Unreal Engine 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Unreal Engine 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Unreal Engine 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
game development tools
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online services for games ⓘ |
| formerName |
Epic MegaGames
NERFINISHED
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Potomac Computer Systems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Tim Sweeney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Cary, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1991 ⓘ |
| industry |
software development
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video games ⓘ |
| launchDate | Epic Games Store 2018 ⓘ |
| launched | Epic Games Store NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalAction |
Epic Games v. Apple
NERFINISHED
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Epic Games v. Google NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorShareholder | Tencent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableTechnology | real-time 3D graphics ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Fortnite Battle Royale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Unreal Engine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owns |
Bandcamp
NERFINISHED
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Chair Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ Harmonix NERFINISHED ⓘ Mediatonic NERFINISHED ⓘ Psyonix NERFINISHED ⓘ SuperAwesome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| percentageOwnedBy | Tencent 40% ⓘ |
| platformOffered |
PC digital distribution
ⓘ
cross-platform game services ⓘ |
| product |
Epic Games Store
NERFINISHED
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Fortnite NERFINISHED ⓘ Gears of War NERFINISHED ⓘ Infinity Blade NERFINISHED ⓘ Jazz Jackrabbit NERFINISHED ⓘ Unreal Engine NERFINISHED ⓘ Unreal Tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOf |
Fortnite
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rocket League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subsidiary |
Chair Entertainment
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harmonix NERFINISHED ⓘ Mediatonic NERFINISHED ⓘ Psyonix NERFINISHED ⓘ SuperAwesome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.epicgames.com/ ⓘ |
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: Epic Games Description of subject: Epic Games is an American video game and software developer best known for creating Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game development platform.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Epic Games Store
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