GLaDOS
E708474
GLaDOS is the sinister, sarcastic artificial intelligence antagonist from Valve’s Portal video game series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GLaDOS canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8033133 — 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: GLaDOS Context triple: [Portal 2, hasCharacter, GLaDOS]
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A.
Wheatley (Portal 2)
Wheatley (Portal 2) is a comically inept yet pivotal personality core from the video game Portal 2, known for his humorous dialogue and central role in the game's story.
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B.
Wheatley
Wheatley is a small community in southwestern Ontario, Canada, known for its proximity to Lake Erie and Wheatley Provincial Park.
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C.
Wheatley
Wheatley is a large village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, known for its historic center and proximity to Oxford.
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D.
Wheatley
Wheatley is the surname given to Phillis Wheatley, the first published African American female poet and an important figure in early American literature.
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E.
HAL 9000
HAL 9000 is the sentient, soft-spoken onboard computer whose malfunctioning artificial intelligence becomes the central antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- 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: GLaDOS Target entity description: GLaDOS is the sinister, sarcastic artificial intelligence antagonist from Valve’s Portal video game series.
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A.
Wheatley (Portal 2)
Wheatley (Portal 2) is a comically inept yet pivotal personality core from the video game Portal 2, known for his humorous dialogue and central role in the game's story.
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B.
Wheatley
Wheatley is a small community in southwestern Ontario, Canada, known for its proximity to Lake Erie and Wheatley Provincial Park.
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C.
Wheatley
Wheatley is a large village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, known for its historic center and proximity to Oxford.
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D.
Wheatley
Wheatley is the surname given to Phillis Wheatley, the first published African American female poet and an important figure in early American literature.
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E.
HAL 9000
HAL 9000 is the sentient, soft-spoken onboard computer whose malfunctioning artificial intelligence becomes the central antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
ⓘ
fictional artificial intelligence ⓘ video game character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Aperture Science NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alignment | villain ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Lego Dimensions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Portal NERFINISHED ⓘ Portal 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Caroline (uploaded human consciousness) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
manipulative
ⓘ
sadistic ⓘ sarcastic ⓘ sinister ⓘ |
| controls | Aperture Science testing chambers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Valve Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedBy |
Chet Faliszek
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Erik Wolpaw NERFINISHED ⓘ Kim Swift NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Chell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wheatley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Half-Life universe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Portal universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Portal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gameDeveloper | Valve Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gameEngine | Source engine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCatchphrase | "The cake is a lie" (associated phrase) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Aperture Science Enrichment Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
final boss in Portal
ⓘ
tutorial guide ⓘ unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| notableWork |
song "Still Alive"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
song "Want You Gone" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | Aperture Science mainframe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platform |
Nintendo Switch
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PC NERFINISHED ⓘ Sony PlayStation 3 ⓘ
surface form:
PlayStation 3
Xbox 360 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
antagonist and ally in Portal 2
ⓘ
primary antagonist in Portal ⓘ |
| species | artificial intelligence ⓘ |
| theme |
ethics of scientific experimentation
ⓘ
human–AI relationship ⓘ |
| voiceActor | Ellen McLain 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: GLaDOS Description of subject: GLaDOS is the sinister, sarcastic artificial intelligence antagonist from Valve’s Portal video game series.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wheatley
subject surface form:
Wheatley