Tim Schafer
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Tim Schafer is an American video game designer and writer best known for his work on classic adventure games at LucasArts and for founding the studio Double Fine Productions.
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| Tim Schafer canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8561998 — 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: Tim Schafer Context triple: [The Secret of Monkey Island, designer, Tim Schafer]
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Matt Shafer
Matt Shafer, better known by his stage name Uncle Kracker, is an American singer-songwriter and musician recognized for his blend of rock, country, and pop influences.
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Dave Lebling
Dave Lebling is an American game designer and programmer best known as one of the co-creators of the pioneering text adventure game Zork and a founding member of the interactive fiction company Infocom.
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Phil Hay
Phil Hay is an American screenwriter known for co-writing genre films such as "Clash of the Titans" (2010), "Ride Along," and "Destroyer," often in collaboration with Matt Manfredi.
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David Cage
David Cage is a French video game designer, writer, and director best known as the founder of Quantic Dream and creator of narrative-driven titles like Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human.
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Ron Gilbert
Ron Gilbert is an American game designer and programmer best known for pioneering point-and-click adventure games such as Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island.
- 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: Tim Schafer Target entity description: Tim Schafer is an American video game designer and writer best known for his work on classic adventure games at LucasArts and for founding the studio Double Fine Productions.
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A.
Matt Shafer
Matt Shafer, better known by his stage name Uncle Kracker, is an American singer-songwriter and musician recognized for his blend of rock, country, and pop influences.
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B.
Dave Lebling
Dave Lebling is an American game designer and programmer best known as one of the co-creators of the pioneering text adventure game Zork and a founding member of the interactive fiction company Infocom.
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C.
Phil Hay
Phil Hay is an American screenwriter known for co-writing genre films such as "Clash of the Titans" (2010), "Ride Along," and "Destroyer," often in collaboration with Matt Manfredi.
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D.
David Cage
David Cage is a French video game designer, writer, and director best known as the founder of Quantic Dream and creator of narrative-driven titles like Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human.
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E.
Ron Gilbert
Ron Gilbert is an American game designer and programmer best known for pioneering point-and-click adventure games such as Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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human ⓘ video game designer ⓘ video game writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
AIAS Hall of Fame Award
NERFINISHED
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BAFTA Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| developerOf |
Broken Age
NERFINISHED
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Brütal Legend NERFINISHED ⓘ Day of the Tentacle NERFINISHED ⓘ Full Throttle NERFINISHED ⓘ Grim Fandango NERFINISHED ⓘ Psychonauts NERFINISHED ⓘ Psychonauts 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Double Fine Productions
NERFINISHED
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LucasArts NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucasfilm Games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Schafer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
adventure games
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video games ⓘ |
| genre | graphic adventure game ⓘ |
| givenName | Timothy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
independent game development through crowdfunding
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modern narrative adventure games ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding Double Fine Productions
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humorous writing in video games ⓘ innovative adventure game design ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Tim Schafer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
co-wrote Day of the Tentacle
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created cult classic game Full Throttle NERFINISHED ⓘ created cult classic game Grim Fandango ⓘ created cult classic game Psychonauts ⓘ pioneered narrative-driven adventure games at LucasArts ⓘ successfully crowdfunded Broken Age via Kickstarter ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Broken Age
NERFINISHED
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Brütal Legend NERFINISHED ⓘ Day of the Tentacle NERFINISHED ⓘ Full Throttle NERFINISHED ⓘ Grim Fandango NERFINISHED ⓘ Psychonauts NERFINISHED ⓘ Psychonauts 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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video game designer ⓘ video game producer ⓘ video game writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Double Fine Productions
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founder of Double Fine Productions ⓘ |
| workLocation | San Francisco Bay Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Tim Schafer Description of subject: Tim Schafer is an American video game designer and writer best known for his work on classic adventure games at LucasArts and for founding the studio Double Fine Productions.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.