Hudson Soft
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Hudson Soft was a Japanese video game company best known for creating popular franchises like Bomberman and co-developing early entries in the Mario Party series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hudson Soft canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7187369 — 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: Hudson Soft Context triple: [Mario Party, developer, Hudson Soft]
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A.
Konami
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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B.
Umbrella Entertainment
Umbrella Entertainment is an Australian home entertainment and film distribution company known for releasing cult, classic, and independent films on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital platforms.
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C.
Coktel Vision
Coktel Vision was a French video game developer and publisher best known for its educational and adventure games in the 1980s and 1990s, including the Adibou/Adi series and Gobliiins.
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D.
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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E.
Sama Studio
Sama Studio is a recording studio known for working on music projects such as Soundgarden’s debut album "Ultramega OK."
- 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: Hudson Soft Target entity description: Hudson Soft was a Japanese video game company best known for creating popular franchises like Bomberman and co-developing early entries in the Mario Party series.
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A.
Konami
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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B.
Umbrella Entertainment
Umbrella Entertainment is an Australian home entertainment and film distribution company known for releasing cult, classic, and independent films on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital platforms.
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C.
Coktel Vision
Coktel Vision was a French video game developer and publisher best known for its educational and adventure games in the 1980s and 1990s, including the Adibou/Adi series and Gobliiins.
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D.
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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E.
Sama Studio
Sama Studio is a recording studio known for working on music projects such as Soundgarden’s debut album "Ultramega OK."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct company
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video game company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Konami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| coDeveloperOf |
Mario Party
NERFINISHED
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Mario Party 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Mario Party 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Mario Party 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Mario Party 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Mario Party 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ Mario Party 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ Mario Party 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
NEC
NERFINISHED
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Nintendo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| creatorOf |
Adventure Island
NERFINISHED
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Bloody Roar NERFINISHED ⓘ Bomberman NERFINISHED ⓘ Bonk NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Soldier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developedForPlatform |
GameCube
NERFINISHED
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Nintendo 64 NERFINISHED ⓘ Nintendo Entertainment System NERFINISHED ⓘ PC Engine NERFINISHED ⓘ PlayStation NERFINISHED ⓘ PlayStation 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Nintendo Entertainment System NERFINISHED ⓘ TurboGrafx-16 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dissolved | 2012 ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Hiroshi Kudo
NERFINISHED
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Yuji Kudo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Hokkaido
NERFINISHED
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Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sapporo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1973 ⓘ |
| industry |
software
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video games ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Adventure Island
NERFINISHED
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Bloody Roar NERFINISHED ⓘ Bomberman NERFINISHED ⓘ Bonk NERFINISHED ⓘ Mario Party NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Soldier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalName | Hudson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platformDeveloperFor |
PC Engine
NERFINISHED
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TurboGrafx-16 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOf |
Adventure Island
NERFINISHED
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Bomberman NERFINISHED ⓘ Bonk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Konami Digital Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Hudson Soft Description of subject: Hudson Soft was a Japanese video game company best known for creating popular franchises like Bomberman and co-developing early entries in the Mario Party series.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.