Buddha engine
E914210
The Buddha engine is a proprietary game engine developed and used by Double Fine Productions to power several of its distinctive, narrative-driven video games.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Buddha Engine | 2 |
| Buddha engine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11249995 — 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: Buddha engine Context triple: [Double Fine Productions, hasGameEngineUsage, Buddha engine]
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A.
Tiger Engine
Tiger Engine is Bungie's proprietary game engine best known for powering the Destiny series of online first-person shooters.
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B.
Vikas engine
The Vikas engine is an Indian liquid-fueled rocket engine developed by ISRO and widely used to power the core and strap-on stages of its PSLV and GSLV launch vehicles.
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C.
Aichi Atsuta liquid-cooled V-12 engine
The Aichi Atsuta liquid-cooled V-12 engine was a Japanese-built, license-produced version of the German Daimler-Benz DB 601 aircraft engine, used to power several Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft during World War II.
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D.
V-54 diesel engine
The V-54 diesel engine is a Soviet V-12, water-cooled, four-stroke diesel powerplant widely used to propel T-54 main battle tanks and their variants.
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E.
MTU diesel engine
The MTU diesel engine is a high-performance, military-grade powerplant produced by MTU Friedrichshafen, widely used in armored vehicles and other heavy-duty applications for its reliability and power density.
- 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: Buddha engine Target entity description: The Buddha engine is a proprietary game engine developed and used by Double Fine Productions to power several of its distinctive, narrative-driven video games.
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A.
Tiger Engine
Tiger Engine is Bungie's proprietary game engine best known for powering the Destiny series of online first-person shooters.
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B.
Vikas engine
The Vikas engine is an Indian liquid-fueled rocket engine developed by ISRO and widely used to power the core and strap-on stages of its PSLV and GSLV launch vehicles.
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C.
Aichi Atsuta liquid-cooled V-12 engine
The Aichi Atsuta liquid-cooled V-12 engine was a Japanese-built, license-produced version of the German Daimler-Benz DB 601 aircraft engine, used to power several Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft during World War II.
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D.
V-54 diesel engine
The V-54 diesel engine is a Soviet V-12, water-cooled, four-stroke diesel powerplant widely used to propel T-54 main battle tanks and their variants.
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E.
MTU diesel engine
The MTU diesel engine is a high-performance, military-grade powerplant produced by MTU Friedrichshafen, widely used in armored vehicles and other heavy-duty applications for its reliability and power density.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
game engine
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proprietary software ⓘ |
| developer | Double Fine Productions ⓘ |
| feature |
cross-platform deployment
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support for 2D graphics ⓘ support for 3D graphics ⓘ support for adventure game mechanics ⓘ support for narrative-driven games ⓘ |
| genre | video game engine ⓘ |
| license | proprietary ⓘ |
| notableFor | use in Double Fine’s stylized, narrative-focused titles ⓘ |
| platform |
Linux
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Microsoft Windows ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
macOS ⓘ |
| primaryUser | Double Fine Productions ⓘ |
| usedBy | Double Fine Productions ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Broken Age
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Brütal Legend ⓘ Costume Quest ⓘ Headlander ⓘ Iron Brigade ⓘ Massive Chalice ⓘ Psychonauts 2 ⓘ Stacking ⓘ The Cave ⓘ |
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: Buddha engine Description of subject: The Buddha engine is a proprietary game engine developed and used by Double Fine Productions to power several of its distinctive, narrative-driven video games.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Buddha engine
linked to: Buddha engine