THQ
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THQ was an American video game publisher known for producing and distributing a wide range of licensed and original titles before its bankruptcy and eventual closure in the early 2010s.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| THQ canonical | 27 |
| THQ Kids | 1 |
| THQ Studio Australia | 1 |
| THQ in Australia | 1 |
| THQ in North America | 1 |
| THQI | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9131494 — 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: THQ Context triple: [Danny Bilson, employer, THQ]
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A.
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.
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B.
Activision Blizzard
Activision Blizzard is a major American video game holding company known for franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch.
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C.
Take-Two Interactive
Take-Two Interactive is a major American video game publisher known for franchises like Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, and NBA 2K.
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D.
Bethesda Softworks
Bethesda Softworks is a prominent American video game publisher and developer best known for franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.
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E.
ZeniMax Media
ZeniMax Media is a video game holding company best known as the parent of Bethesda Softworks, the publisher of major franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.
- 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: THQ Target entity description: THQ was an American video game publisher known for producing and distributing a wide range of licensed and original titles before its bankruptcy and eventual closure in the early 2010s.
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A.
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.
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B.
Activision Blizzard
Activision Blizzard is a major American video game holding company known for franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch.
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C.
Take-Two Interactive
Take-Two Interactive is a major American video game publisher known for franchises like Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, and NBA 2K.
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D.
Bethesda Softworks
Bethesda Softworks is a prominent American video game publisher and developer best known for franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.
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E.
ZeniMax Media
ZeniMax Media is a video game holding company best known as the parent of Bethesda Softworks, the publisher of major franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: THQ Description of subject: THQ was an American video game publisher known for producing and distributing a wide range of licensed and original titles before its bankruptcy and eventual closure in the early 2010s.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: THQ
linked to: THQ
subject linked to:
Finding Nemo video game
subject linked to:
Finding Nemo video game
linked to: THQ
subject linked to:
Finding Nemo video game
linked to: THQ