Namco Bandai Games
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Namco Bandai Games is a major Japanese video game publisher and developer known for franchises such as Tekken, Pac-Man, and the Tales series.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bandai Namco Entertainment | 5 |
| Namco | 3 |
| Bandai Namco franchises | 1 |
| Namco Bandai Games canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11249801 — 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: Namco Bandai Games Context triple: [Ninja Theory, collaboratedWith, Namco Bandai Games]
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A.
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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B.
Bandai Entertainment
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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C.
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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D.
Sega Sammy Holdings
Sega Sammy Holdings is a Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for owning Sega and operating businesses in video games, arcade machines, and pachinko/pachislot machines.
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E.
Jaleco
Jaleco was a Japanese video game company known for developing and publishing arcade and home console titles from the 1980s through the early 2000s.
- 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: Namco Bandai Games Target entity description: Namco Bandai Games is a major Japanese video game publisher and developer known for franchises such as Tekken, Pac-Man, and the Tales series.
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A.
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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B.
Bandai Entertainment
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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C.
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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D.
Sega Sammy Holdings
Sega Sammy Holdings is a Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for owning Sega and operating businesses in video games, arcade machines, and pachinko/pachislot machines.
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E.
Jaleco
Jaleco was a Japanese video game company known for developing and publishing arcade and home console titles from the 1980s through the early 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese company
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video game company ⓘ video game developer ⓘ video game publisher ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| developed |
Pac-Man Championship Edition
NERFINISHED
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Pac-Man Championship Edition DX NERFINISHED ⓘ Soulcalibur IV NERFINISHED ⓘ Soulcalibur V NERFINISHED ⓘ Tales of Graces NERFINISHED ⓘ Tales of Symphonia NERFINISHED ⓘ Tales of Vesperia NERFINISHED ⓘ Tales of the Abyss NERFINISHED ⓘ Tekken NERFINISHED ⓘ Tekken 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Tekken 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Tekken 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Tekken 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Tekken 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ Tekken Tag Tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ Tekken Tag Tournament 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | video games ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Pac-Man franchise
NERFINISHED
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Tales series NERFINISHED ⓘ Tekken series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Japan ⓘ |
| notableFranchise |
Ace Combat
NERFINISHED
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Pac-Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Soulcalibur NERFINISHED ⓘ Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ Tekken NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Bandai Namco Holdings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platforms |
PC
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arcade ⓘ handheld consoles ⓘ home consoles ⓘ mobile devices ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Bandai
NERFINISHED
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Namco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| published |
Dark Souls
NERFINISHED
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Dark Souls II NERFINISHED ⓘ Dragon Ball: Raging Blast NERFINISHED ⓘ Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm NERFINISHED ⓘ One Piece: Pirate Warriors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Bandai Namco Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Namco Bandai Games Description of subject: Namco Bandai Games is a major Japanese video game publisher and developer known for franchises such as Tekken, Pac-Man, and the Tales series.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bandai Namco Entertainment
this entity surface form:
Bandai Namco Entertainment
this entity surface form:
Bandai Namco Entertainment
this entity surface form:
Namco
this entity surface form:
Bandai Namco Entertainment