Atlus
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Atlus is a Japanese video game developer and publisher best known for creating the Shin Megami Tensei and Persona role-playing game series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Atlus canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8472774 — 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: Atlus Context triple: [Sega, subsidiary, Atlus]
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A.
Obsidian Entertainment
Obsidian Entertainment is an American video game developer best known for its critically acclaimed role-playing games such as Fallout: New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity, and The Outer Worlds.
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B.
Tango Gameworks
Tango Gameworks is a Japanese video game development studio best known for creating the survival horror series The Evil Within and the action-adventure game Ghostwire: Tokyo.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Atlus Target entity description: Atlus is a Japanese video game developer and publisher best known for creating the Shin Megami Tensei and Persona role-playing game series.
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A.
Obsidian Entertainment
Obsidian Entertainment is an American video game developer best known for its critically acclaimed role-playing games such as Fallout: New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity, and The Outer Worlds.
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B.
Tango Gameworks
Tango Gameworks is a Japanese video game development studio best known for creating the survival horror series The Evil Within and the action-adventure game Ghostwire: Tokyo.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
video game company
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video game publisher ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Sega NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| developed |
Catherine
NERFINISHED
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Etrian Odyssey NERFINISHED ⓘ Etrian Odyssey II NERFINISHED ⓘ Etrian Odyssey III NERFINISHED ⓘ Persona NERFINISHED ⓘ Persona 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Persona 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Persona 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Persona 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Shin Megami Tensei NERFINISHED ⓘ Shin Megami Tensei II NERFINISHED ⓘ Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne NERFINISHED ⓘ Shin Megami Tensei IV NERFINISHED ⓘ Shin Megami Tensei V NERFINISHED ⓘ Trauma Center: Second Opinion NERFINISHED ⓘ Trauma Center: Under the Knife NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focus |
niche Japanese games
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role-playing games ⓘ |
| foundedIn |
1980s
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1986 ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Atlus USA
NERFINISHED
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Atlus West NERFINISHED ⓘ P-Studio NERFINISHED ⓘ Studio Zero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Japan
NERFINISHED
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Tokyo ⓘ |
| industry | video games ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Catherine
NERFINISHED
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Etrian Odyssey series NERFINISHED ⓘ Persona series NERFINISHED ⓘ Shin Megami Tensei series NERFINISHED ⓘ Trauma Center series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOperation | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFranchise |
Etrian Odyssey
NERFINISHED
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Megami Tensei NERFINISHED ⓘ Persona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Sega
NERFINISHED
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Sega Sammy Holdings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| published |
Demon’s Souls
NERFINISHED
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Dragon’s Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ Odin Sphere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Europe
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Japan ⓘ North America ⓘ |
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: Atlus Description of subject: Atlus is a Japanese video game developer and publisher best known for creating the Shin Megami Tensei and Persona role-playing game series.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Joker (Persona 5)
subject surface form:
Joker (Persona 5)