Virtua Fighter
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Virtua Fighter is a pioneering 3D fighting game series by Sega, renowned for its realistic martial arts, deep mechanics, and major influence on the fighting game genre.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Virtua Fighter canonical | 4 |
| Virtua Fighter 2 | 2 |
| Virtua Fighter Animation | 1 |
| Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series | 1 |
| Virtua Fighter Kids | 1 |
| Virtua Fighter Remix | 1 |
| Virtua Fighter anime television series | 1 |
| Virtua Fighter manga adaptations | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8472745 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Virtua Fighter Context triple: [Sega, notableWork, Virtua Fighter]
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A.
Street Fighter
Street Fighter is a 1994 live-action film adaptation of the popular Capcom fighting video game series, known for its ensemble cast and campy, action-driven portrayal of the game's characters.
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B.
Fatal Fury: King of Fighters
Fatal Fury: King of Fighters is a classic 1991 SNK fighting game that introduced the Fatal Fury series and helped define the early competitive fighting genre on arcade and Neo Geo platforms.
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C.
Final Fight
Final Fight is a classic side-scrolling beat 'em up arcade game by Capcom, renowned for its cooperative gameplay, urban crime setting, and influential impact on the genre.
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D.
Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II is a landmark competitive fighting video game by Capcom that popularized the one-on-one fighting genre and became a global arcade and home console phenomenon in the early 1990s.
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E.
Fighters
Fighters is the abbreviated name of the Frisco Fighters, a professional indoor football team based in Frisco, Texas.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virtua Fighter Target entity description: Virtua Fighter is a pioneering 3D fighting game series by Sega, renowned for its realistic martial arts, deep mechanics, and major influence on the fighting game genre.
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A.
Street Fighter
Street Fighter is a 1994 live-action film adaptation of the popular Capcom fighting video game series, known for its ensemble cast and campy, action-driven portrayal of the game's characters.
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B.
Fatal Fury: King of Fighters
Fatal Fury: King of Fighters is a classic 1991 SNK fighting game that introduced the Fatal Fury series and helped define the early competitive fighting genre on arcade and Neo Geo platforms.
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C.
Final Fight
Final Fight is a classic side-scrolling beat 'em up arcade game by Capcom, renowned for its cooperative gameplay, urban crime setting, and influential impact on the genre.
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D.
Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II is a landmark competitive fighting video game by Capcom that popularized the one-on-one fighting genre and became a global arcade and home console phenomenon in the early 1990s.
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E.
Fighters
Fighters is the abbreviated name of the Frisco Fighters, a professional indoor football team based in Frisco, Texas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (76)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fighting game series
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video game series ⓘ |
| awarded | Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association Award for excellence ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| creator | Yu Suzuki ⓘ |
| developer | Sega AM2 ⓘ |
| engine | Model 1 arcade hardware (original game) ⓘ |
| firstReleaseDate | 1993 ⓘ |
| firstReleaseTitle | Virtua Fighter ⓘ |
| gameplayFeature |
frame-precise timing
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ring-out system ⓘ stance-based movement ⓘ three-button control scheme ⓘ |
| genre | 3D fighting game ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Aoi Umenokoji
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Brad Burns ⓘ Eileen ⓘ El Blaze ⓘ Goh Hinogami ⓘ Jacky Bryant ⓘ Jean Kujo ⓘ Jeffry McWild ⓘ Kage-Maru ⓘ Lau Chan ⓘ Lei-Fei ⓘ Lion Rafale ⓘ Pai Chan ⓘ Sarah Bryant ⓘ Shun Di ⓘ Taka-Arashi ⓘ Vanessa Lewis ⓘ Wolf Hawkfield ⓘ |
| hasGameMode |
arcade mode
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online multiplayer ⓘ training mode ⓘ versus mode ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Akira Yuki ⓘ |
| includedIn | The Art of Video Games exhibition ⓘ |
| influenced |
Dead or Alive
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Fighting Vipers ⓘ Soulcalibur ⓘ Tekken ⓘ
linked to:
Tekken (2010 film)
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| inUniverseElement | J6 criminal organization ⓘ |
| mediaAdaptation |
Virtua Fighter anime television series
ⓘ
linked to:
Virtua Fighter
Virtua Fighter manga adaptations ⓘ
linked to:
Virtua Fighter
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| notableFor |
being one of the first 3D polygon-based fighting games
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deep and technical gameplay mechanics ⓘ influencing the evolution of 3D graphics in video games ⓘ major influence on competitive fighting game design ⓘ realistic martial arts representation ⓘ |
| notableInstallment |
Virtua Fighter 2
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linked to:
Virtua Fighter
Virtua Fighter 3 ⓘ Virtua Fighter 4 ⓘ Virtua Fighter 5 ⓘ Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown ⓘ
linked to:
Virtua Fighter 5
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| platform |
Arcade
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Microsoft Windows ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
PlayStation 2 ⓘ PlayStation 3 ⓘ
linked to:
Sony PlayStation 3
PlayStation 4 ⓘ PlayStation 5 ⓘ Sega 32X ⓘ Sega Dreamcast ⓘ
linked to:
Dreamcast
Sega Saturn ⓘ Xbox 360 ⓘ |
| publisher | Sega ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Smithsonian American Art Museum ⓘ |
| setting | World Fighting Tournament ⓘ |
| subseries |
Virtua Fighter Animation
ⓘ
linked to:
Virtua Fighter
Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series ⓘ
linked to:
Virtua Fighter
Virtua Fighter Kids ⓘ
linked to:
Virtua Fighter
Virtua Fighter Remix ⓘ
linked to:
Virtua Fighter
|
| successorEngine |
Lindbergh arcade hardware (Virtua Fighter 5)
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Model 2 arcade hardware (Virtua Fighter 2) ⓘ Model 3 arcade hardware (Virtua Fighter 3) ⓘ NAOMI arcade hardware (Virtua Fighter 4) ⓘ
linked to:
Sega NAOMI
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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: Virtua Fighter Description of subject: Virtua Fighter is a pioneering 3D fighting game series by Sega, renowned for its realistic martial arts, deep mechanics, and major influence on the fighting game genre.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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