Bandai Entertainment
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Bandai Entertainment was an American anime licensing and distribution company known for bringing numerous popular Japanese animated series and films to North American audiences.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bandai Entertainment canonical | 1 |
| Bandai Entertainment Inc. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9001794 — 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: Bandai Entertainment Context triple: [Gurren Lagann, licensedBy, Bandai Entertainment]
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A.
Takara Tomy
Takara Tomy is a Japanese toy and entertainment company best known internationally for creating and producing the Transformers franchise and other popular toy lines.
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B.
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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C.
Toyopa Group, LLC
Toyopa Group, LLC is the original corporate name under which the company now known as Snap Inc., the parent of Snapchat, was first established.
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D.
Capcom
Capcom is a Japanese video game developer and publisher best known for creating major franchises such as Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Monster Hunter.
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E.
Tokyo Denki
Tokyo Denki was a Japanese electrical company that became a predecessor of the modern electronics conglomerate Toshiba.
- 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: Bandai Entertainment Target entity description: Bandai Entertainment was an American anime licensing and distribution company known for bringing numerous popular Japanese animated series and films to North American audiences.
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A.
Takara Tomy
Takara Tomy is a Japanese toy and entertainment company best known internationally for creating and producing the Transformers franchise and other popular toy lines.
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B.
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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C.
Toyopa Group, LLC
Toyopa Group, LLC is the original corporate name under which the company now known as Snap Inc., the parent of Snapchat, was first established.
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D.
Capcom
Capcom is a Japanese video game developer and publisher best known for creating major franchises such as Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Monster Hunter.
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E.
Tokyo Denki
Tokyo Denki was a Japanese electrical company that became a predecessor of the modern electronics conglomerate Toshiba.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anime licensing company
ⓘ
defunct company ⓘ home video distributor ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Bandai Entertainment Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Bandai Entertainment
|
| announcedEndOfNewLicensing | 2012-01 ⓘ |
| ceasedOperations | 2012 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dissolved | 2012 ⓘ |
| distributedFormat |
home video masters
ⓘ
television broadcast masters ⓘ |
| distributedInRegion |
Canada
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North America ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focus | bringing Japanese anime to North American audiences ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Bandai Visual ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Cypress, California ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| inception | 1998 ⓘ |
| industry |
anime
ⓘ
film distribution ⓘ home video ⓘ |
| languageOfRelease | English ⓘ |
| notableLicensedWork |
.hack//SIGN
ⓘ
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion ⓘ
linked to:
Code Geass
Cowboy Bebop ⓘ
linked to:
Cowboy Bebop (anime)
Escaflowne ⓘ Eureka Seven ⓘ Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex ⓘ
linked to:
Ghost in the Shell (anime franchise)
Gundam Wing ⓘ Gurren Lagann ⓘ K-On! ⓘ
linked to:
K-On! franchise
Lucky Star ⓘ Mobile Suit Gundam ⓘ
linked to:
Gundam franchise
My-Hime ⓘ Outlaw Star ⓘ The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya ⓘ Wolf’s Rain ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Bandai Visual USA
ⓘ
linked to:
Bandai Visual
|
| parentCompany |
Bandai
ⓘ
linked to:
Bandai America
Bandai Namco Holdings ⓘ
linked to:
Namco Bandai Games
Bandai Visual ⓘ |
| product |
Blu-ray Disc
ⓘ
linked to:
Blu-ray Disc format
DVD ⓘ VHS ⓘ anime home video releases ⓘ manga ⓘ theatrical anime releases ⓘ |
| successorInLicenses |
Aniplex of America
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linked to:
Aniplex
Funimation ⓘ
linked to:
Funimation (legacy brand)
Right Stuf ⓘ
linked to:
Right Stuf Anime
Sentai Filmworks ⓘ |
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: Bandai Entertainment Description of subject: Bandai Entertainment was an American anime licensing and distribution company known for bringing numerous popular Japanese animated series and films to North American audiences.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bandai Entertainment