Konami
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Konami is a major Japanese entertainment company best known for developing and publishing popular video game franchises such as Metal Gear, Castlevania, and Silent Hill.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Konami canonical | 21 |
| Konami Computer Entertainment Japan | 2 |
| Konami (former) | 1 |
| Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo | 1 |
| Konami Music Entertainment | 1 |
| Konami sound team | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6960271 — 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: Konami Context triple: [Hideo Kojima, employer, Konami]
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A.
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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B.
Kojima Productions
Kojima Productions is a Japanese video game development studio founded by Hideo Kojima, best known for creating cinematic, narrative-driven titles such as Death Stranding and the Metal Gear series.
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C.
Sega
Sega is a Japanese video game and entertainment company best known for its iconic consoles and franchises such as Sonic the Hedgehog.
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D.
Sony
Sony is a Japanese multinational conglomerate best known for its consumer electronics, gaming (PlayStation), entertainment, and imaging products.
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E.
Vivendi Games
Vivendi Games was a French video game publisher and holding company that owned studios like Blizzard Entertainment before merging with Activision to form Activision Blizzard.
- 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: Konami Target entity description: Konami is a major Japanese entertainment company best known for developing and publishing popular video game franchises such as Metal Gear, Castlevania, and Silent Hill.
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A.
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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B.
Kojima Productions
Kojima Productions is a Japanese video game development studio founded by Hideo Kojima, best known for creating cinematic, narrative-driven titles such as Death Stranding and the Metal Gear series.
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C.
Sega
Sega is a Japanese video game and entertainment company best known for its iconic consoles and franchises such as Sonic the Hedgehog.
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D.
Sony
Sony is a Japanese multinational conglomerate best known for its consumer electronics, gaming (PlayStation), entertainment, and imaging products.
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E.
Vivendi Games
Vivendi Games was a French video game publisher and holding company that owned studios like Blizzard Entertainment before merging with Activision to form Activision Blizzard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public company
ⓘ
video game company ⓘ |
| brand |
Konami Digital Entertainment
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Konami Sports Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| develops |
arcade games
ⓘ
mobile games ⓘ video games ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Kagemasa Kozuki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1969 ⓘ |
| founder | Kagemasa Kozuki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreFocus |
action games
ⓘ
horror games ⓘ sports games ⓘ |
| hasLogo | Konami logo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.konami.com/ ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Japan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tokyo ⓘ |
| industry |
entertainment
ⓘ
fitness ⓘ gambling ⓘ trading cards ⓘ video games ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableEmployee |
Hideo Kojima
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Koji Igarashi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Castlevania
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Contra NERFINISHED ⓘ Dance Dance Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ Frogger NERFINISHED ⓘ Gradius NERFINISHED ⓘ Metal Gear NERFINISHED ⓘ Metal Gear Solid NERFINISHED ⓘ Pro Evolution Soccer NERFINISHED ⓘ Silent Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game NERFINISHED ⓘ eFootball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalBusiness |
arcade game machines
ⓘ
jukebox rental ⓘ |
| produces |
pachinko machines
ⓘ
pachislot machines ⓘ trading card games ⓘ |
| publishes | video games ⓘ |
| regionServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| stockExchange | Tokyo Stock Exchange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subsidiary |
Konami Amusement
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Konami Digital Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ Konami Sports NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | 9766 ⓘ |
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: Konami Description of subject: Konami is a major Japanese entertainment company best known for developing and publishing popular video game franchises such as Metal Gear, Castlevania, and Silent Hill.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Konami (former)
this entity surface form:
Konami sound team
this entity surface form:
Konami Computer Entertainment Japan
this entity surface form:
Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo
this entity surface form:
Konami Music Entertainment
this entity surface form:
Konami Computer Entertainment Japan