Minecraft
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Minecraft is a hugely popular sandbox video game that lets players explore, build, and survive in procedurally generated block-based worlds.
All labels observed (25)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T452520 — 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: Minecraft Context triple: [Mojang Studios, notableWork, Minecraft]
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A.
Minecraft: Education Edition
Minecraft: Education Edition is a classroom-focused version of the popular sandbox game Minecraft, designed to support collaborative, curriculum-aligned learning activities across subjects like coding, STEM, and history.
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B.
New World
The New World refers to the Western Hemisphere, especially the Americas, as distinguished from the Old World of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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C.
World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in the fantasy world of Azeroth, renowned for its expansive lore, cooperative gameplay, and long-standing cultural impact on online gaming.
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D.
Smash
Smash is an American musical drama television series that follows the creation of a Broadway show about Marilyn Monroe, featuring Jennifer Hudson in a prominent role.
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E.
FIFA
FIFA is the international governing body of association football, responsible for organizing major global tournaments such as the FIFA World Cup and overseeing the sport’s rules and international governance.
- 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: Minecraft Target entity description: Minecraft is a hugely popular sandbox video game that lets players explore, build, and survive in procedurally generated block-based worlds.
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A.
Minecraft: Education Edition
Minecraft: Education Edition is a classroom-focused version of the popular sandbox game Minecraft, designed to support collaborative, curriculum-aligned learning activities across subjects like coding, STEM, and history.
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B.
New World
The New World refers to the Western Hemisphere, especially the Americas, as distinguished from the Old World of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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C.
World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in the fantasy world of Azeroth, renowned for its expansive lore, cooperative gameplay, and long-standing cultural impact on online gaming.
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D.
Smash
Smash is an American musical drama television series that follows the creation of a Broadway show about Marilyn Monroe, featuring Jennifer Hudson in a prominent role.
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E.
FIFA
FIFA is the international governing body of association football, responsible for organizing major global tournaments such as the FIFA World Cup and overseeing the sport’s rules and international governance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (141)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
indie game
ⓘ
sandbox game ⓘ survival game ⓘ video game ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2014-11-06 ⓘ |
| alphaReleaseDate | 2009-05-17 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Minecraft
ⓘ
surface form:
Minecraft: Java Edition
|
| betaReleaseDate | 2010-12-20 ⓘ |
| creator | Markus Persson ⓘ |
| developer | Mojang Studios ⓘ |
| ESRBRating | E10+ ⓘ |
| feature |
Redstone circuitry
ⓘ
brewing ⓘ building structures ⓘ combat with hostile mobs ⓘ crafting system ⓘ enchanting ⓘ farming ⓘ mining resources ⓘ trading with villagers ⓘ |
| gameEngine | proprietary engine ⓘ |
| gameMode |
Adventure
ⓘ
Creative ⓘ Hardcore ⓘ Spectator ⓘ Survival ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure
ⓘ
sandbox ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| hasBiome |
Deep Dark
ⓘ
Desert ⓘ Forest ⓘ Jungle ⓘ Mushroom Fields ⓘ Ocean ⓘ Plains ⓘ Savanna ⓘ Snowy Tundra ⓘ Taiga ⓘ |
| hasBoss |
Ender Dragon
ⓘ
Wither ⓘ |
| hasDimension |
Nether
ⓘ
Overworld ⓘ The End ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
Minecraft
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Bedrock Edition
Education Edition ⓘ Minecraft self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Java Edition
|
| hasItem |
Diamond
ⓘ
Diamond Sword ⓘ Elytra ⓘ Iron Ingot ⓘ Netherite Ingot ⓘ Stone Pickaxe ⓘ Totem of Undying ⓘ Wooden Planks ⓘ |
| hasMarketplace | Minecraft Marketplace ⓘ |
| hasMob |
Axolotl
ⓘ
Blaze ⓘ Creeper ⓘ Enderman ⓘ Ghast ⓘ Guardian ⓘ Iron Golem ⓘ Phantom ⓘ Piglin ⓘ Shulker ⓘ Skeleton ⓘ Slime ⓘ Spider ⓘ Villager ⓘ Warden ⓘ Witch ⓘ Wither Skeleton ⓘ Zombie ⓘ |
| hasMusicBy |
C418
ⓘ
Lena Raine ⓘ |
| hasSpinOff |
Minecraft Dungeons
ⓘ
Minecraft Legends ⓘ Minecraft Story Mode ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
Bastion Remnant
ⓘ
Desert Temple ⓘ End City ⓘ Jungle Temple ⓘ Nether Fortress ⓘ Ocean Monument ⓘ Stronghold ⓘ Village ⓘ Woodland Mansion ⓘ |
| initialReleaseDate | 2011-11-18 ⓘ |
| language |
C++
ⓘ
surface form:
C++ (for Bedrock Edition)
Java ⓘ
surface form:
Java (for Java Edition)
|
| monetization | one-time purchase ⓘ |
| notableAward |
BAFTA Games Award for Best Family and Social Game
ⓘ
Golden Joystick Awards 2012 ⓘ |
| originalDeveloper |
Mojang Studios
ⓘ
surface form:
Mojang
|
| owner | Microsoft ⓘ |
| PEGIRating | 7 ⓘ |
| platform |
Fire TV
ⓘ
surface form:
Amazon Fire TV
Android ⓘ Apple TV ⓘ Gear VR ⓘ HTC Vive ⓘ Linux ⓘ Nintendo 3DS ⓘ Nintendo 3DS ⓘ
surface form:
Nintendo New 3DS
Nintendo Switch ⓘ Oculus Rift ⓘ PC ⓘ Sony PlayStation 3 ⓘ
surface form:
PlayStation 3
PlayStation 4 ⓘ PlayStation 5 ⓘ PlayStation Vita ⓘ Raspberry Pi ⓘ Wii U ⓘ Windows ⓘ Windows Phone ⓘ Xbox 360 ⓘ Xbox One ⓘ Xbox Series X/S ⓘ iOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| publisher |
Mojang Studios
ⓘ
Nintendo ⓘ Sony ⓘ
surface form:
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Xbox Game Studios ⓘ |
| sales | over 300 million copies sold worldwide ⓘ |
| setting |
Nether
ⓘ
Overworld ⓘ The End ⓘ |
| supports |
cross-platform play (Bedrock Edition)
ⓘ
custom servers ⓘ mods (Java Edition) ⓘ multiplayer ⓘ single-player ⓘ user-created skins ⓘ user-created texture packs ⓘ |
| targetAudience | all ages ⓘ |
| website | https://www.minecraft.net/ ⓘ |
| worldStyle | block-based ⓘ |
| worldType | procedurally generated ⓘ |
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: Minecraft Description of subject: Minecraft is a hugely popular sandbox video game that lets players explore, build, and survive in procedurally generated block-based worlds.
Referenced by (103)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Minecraft Java Edition
this entity surface form:
Minecraft Bedrock Edition
this entity surface form:
Minecraft: Java Edition
this entity surface form:
Minecraft: Java Edition
this entity surface form:
Java Edition
this entity surface form:
Bedrock Edition
this entity surface form:
Minecraft Java Edition
this entity surface form:
Minecraft Bedrock Edition
this entity surface form:
Minecraft Bedrock Edition
this entity surface form:
Minecraft for Windows
this entity surface form:
Minecraft for iOS
this entity surface form:
Minecraft for Android
this entity surface form:
Minecraft for Gear VR
this entity surface form:
Minecraft Java Edition (does not support Marketplace)
this entity surface form:
Minecraft: Java Edition
this entity surface form:
Minecraft universe
this entity surface form:
Minecraft franchise
this entity surface form:
Redstone
subject surface form:
Jens Bergensten
subject surface form:
Jens Bergensten
this entity surface form:
Minecraft: Java Edition
subject surface form:
Jens Bergensten
this entity surface form:
Minecraft Indev (early nether-like)
this entity surface form:
Minecraft Beta 1.9 pre-release
this entity surface form:
Minecraft Java Edition 1.0
this entity surface form:
Java Edition
this entity surface form:
Minecraft Java Edition 1.4.2
this entity surface form:
Minecraft Classic