Pokémon GO
E493020
Pokémon GO is a mobile augmented reality game that lets players find, catch, and battle virtual Pokémon in real-world locations using their smartphones.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pokémon GO canonical | 7 |
| Pokémon GO mobile game | 1 |
| Pokémon Go | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5080294 — 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: Pokémon GO Context triple: [Pokémon, notableWork, Pokémon GO]
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A.
Pokémon Go for Apple Watch
Pokémon Go for Apple Watch is the smartwatch companion version of Niantic’s popular augmented reality mobile game, designed to let players track steps, hatch eggs, and receive gameplay notifications directly from their Apple Watch.
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B.
Pokémon
Pokémon is a globally popular multimedia franchise centered on collecting, training, and battling fictional creatures across video games, trading cards, animation, and merchandise.
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C.
Poke
Poke is a hip-hop music producer best known as one half of the production duo Trackmasters, who crafted numerous hits for major rap and R&B artists in the 1990s and 2000s.
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D.
Niantic
The Niantic are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands, historically living along the southern New England coast near present-day Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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E.
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is a now-discontinued augmented reality mobile game that let players explore the real world while casting spells, discovering magical creatures, and engaging with the Harry Potter universe.
- 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: Pokémon GO Target entity description: Pokémon GO is a mobile augmented reality game that lets players find, catch, and battle virtual Pokémon in real-world locations using their smartphones.
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A.
Pokémon Go for Apple Watch
Pokémon Go for Apple Watch is the smartwatch companion version of Niantic’s popular augmented reality mobile game, designed to let players track steps, hatch eggs, and receive gameplay notifications directly from their Apple Watch.
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B.
Pokémon
Pokémon is a globally popular multimedia franchise centered on collecting, training, and battling fictional creatures across video games, trading cards, animation, and merchandise.
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C.
Poke
Poke is a hip-hop music producer best known as one half of the production duo Trackmasters, who crafted numerous hits for major rap and R&B artists in the 1990s and 2000s.
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D.
Niantic
The Niantic are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands, historically living along the southern New England coast near present-day Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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E.
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is a now-discontinued augmented reality mobile game that let players explore the real world while casting spells, discovering magical creatures, and engaging with the Harry Potter universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
augmented reality mobile game
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location-based game ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Pokémon franchise
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linked to:
Pokémon
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| developer | Niantic ⓘ |
| gameMechanic |
battling in Gyms
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catching Pokémon ⓘ collecting Candy ⓘ collecting Stardust ⓘ evolving Pokémon ⓘ hatching Eggs ⓘ participating in Raids ⓘ powering up Pokémon ⓘ spinning PokéStops ⓘ |
| genre |
augmented reality
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location-based ⓘ massively multiplayer online ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
AR+ mode
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linked to:
augmented reality
Adventure Sync ⓘ Buddy Pokémon system ⓘ Community Day events ⓘ Field Research tasks ⓘ Gyms ⓘ Mega Evolution ⓘ Player versus Player battles ⓘ PokéStops ⓘ Raid Battles ⓘ Remote Raids ⓘ Special Research quests ⓘ Team GO Rocket encounters ⓘ Team-based gameplay ⓘ Trading ⓘ in-app purchases ⓘ |
| hasGameMode |
multiplayer
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single-player ⓘ |
| hasTeam |
Team Instinct
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Team Mystic ⓘ Team Valor ⓘ |
| initialReleaseRegion |
Australia
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New Zealand ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| monetizationModel | free-to-play ⓘ |
| notableImpact |
increased public interest in Pokémon franchise
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popularized augmented reality gaming ⓘ |
| platform |
Android
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iOS ⓘ |
| publisher | Niantic ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2016-07-06 ⓘ |
| supports |
outdoor physical activity
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real-world exploration ⓘ social interaction ⓘ |
| usesTechnology |
GPS
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augmented reality ⓘ mobile data ⓘ smartphone camera ⓘ |
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: Pokémon GO Description of subject: Pokémon GO is a mobile augmented reality game that lets players find, catch, and battle virtual Pokémon in real-world locations using their smartphones.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Pokémon GO
linked to: Pokémon GO