Nazca Corporation
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Nazca Corporation was a Japanese video game developer best known for creating the run-and-gun arcade series Metal Slug before being absorbed into SNK.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nazca Corporation canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8552188 — 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: Nazca Corporation Context triple: [Metal Slug, developer, Nazca Corporation]
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A.
Lima Company
Lima Company is a rifle company within the U.S. Marine Corps’ 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, known for its infantry combat role.
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B.
Pella Corporation
Pella Corporation is a major American manufacturer of windows and doors known for its innovative, energy-efficient building products.
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C.
Delos Incorporated
Delos Incorporated is the powerful corporate owner and operator of the Westworld theme park and its sister parks in the Westworld television series.
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D.
Marcus Corporation
Marcus Corporation is a U.S.-based company best known for its movie theatre and hospitality businesses, including operating cinema chains and hotels.
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E.
Pando Company
Pando Company is a film production company known for producing the movie "The Happy Ending."
- 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: Nazca Corporation Target entity description: Nazca Corporation was a Japanese video game developer best known for creating the run-and-gun arcade series Metal Slug before being absorbed into SNK.
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A.
Lima Company
Lima Company is a rifle company within the U.S. Marine Corps’ 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, known for its infantry combat role.
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B.
Pella Corporation
Pella Corporation is a major American manufacturer of windows and doors known for its innovative, energy-efficient building products.
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C.
Delos Incorporated
Delos Incorporated is the powerful corporate owner and operator of the Westworld theme park and its sister parks in the Westworld television series.
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D.
Marcus Corporation
Marcus Corporation is a U.S.-based company best known for its movie theatre and hospitality businesses, including operating cinema chains and hotels.
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E.
Pando Company
Pando Company is a film production company known for producing the movie "The Happy Ending."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct company
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video game developer ⓘ |
| associatedWithHardware | SNK Neo Geo hardware ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | SNK ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| developedForPlatform |
Neo Geo AES
ⓘ
Neo Geo MVS ⓘ |
| fate |
absorbed into SNK
ⓘ
acquired by SNK ⓘ |
| gameEngineStyle | 2D side-scrolling ⓘ |
| genreSpecialty | run-and-gun games ⓘ |
| industry | video games ⓘ |
| knownFor |
high-quality 2D sprite art
ⓘ
run-and-gun arcade shooters ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Japan ⓘ |
| notableGameFeature | cooperative multiplayer in Metal Slug series ⓘ |
| notableSeries | Metal Slug ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Metal Slug
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Metal Slug 2 ⓘ
linked to:
Metal Slug
Metal Slug X ⓘ
linked to:
Metal Slug
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| parentCompany | SNK ⓘ |
| platformFocus |
Neo Geo
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arcade ⓘ |
| primaryMarket | arcade game market ⓘ |
| region | Asia ⓘ |
| successor |
SNK development divisions
ⓘ
linked to:
SNK
|
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: Nazca Corporation Description of subject: Nazca Corporation was a Japanese video game developer best known for creating the run-and-gun arcade series Metal Slug before being absorbed into SNK.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.