Build engine
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The Build engine is a 2.5D first-person shooter game engine best known for powering mid-1990s titles like Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, and Shadow Warrior.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Build engine canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11250662 — 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: Build engine Context triple: [id Tech 1, influenced, Build engine]
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A.
Velocity Engine
Velocity Engine is Apple’s marketing name for the AltiVec vector processing unit used to accelerate multimedia and scientific computations in PowerPC-based Macs.
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B.
Builder
Builder is a creational design pattern in object-oriented programming that separates the construction of a complex object from its representation, allowing the same construction process to create different representations.
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C.
Build Service
Build Service is an openSUSE infrastructure platform that automates building, packaging, and publishing software for multiple Linux distributions.
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D.
NOD Engine
NOD Engine is a proprietary game engine developed by Nihilistic Software for powering their video game titles.
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E.
Engine 163
Engine 163 is a New York City Fire Department engine company serving Staten Island as part of FDNY’s network of frontline firefighting units.
- 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: Build engine Target entity description: The Build engine is a 2.5D first-person shooter game engine best known for powering mid-1990s titles like Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, and Shadow Warrior.
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A.
Velocity Engine
Velocity Engine is Apple’s marketing name for the AltiVec vector processing unit used to accelerate multimedia and scientific computations in PowerPC-based Macs.
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B.
Builder
Builder is a creational design pattern in object-oriented programming that separates the construction of a complex object from its representation, allowing the same construction process to create different representations.
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C.
Build Service
Build Service is an openSUSE infrastructure platform that automates building, packaging, and publishing software for multiple Linux distributions.
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D.
NOD Engine
NOD Engine is a proprietary game engine developed by Nihilistic Software for powering their video game titles.
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E.
Engine 163
Engine 163 is a New York City Fire Department engine company serving Staten Island as part of FDNY’s network of frontline firefighting units.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
2.5D game engine
ⓘ
first-person shooter engine ⓘ video game engine ⓘ |
| contemporaryWith |
Doom engine
ⓘ
linked to:
Doom game engine
Quake engine ⓘ
linked to:
Quake
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developer | Ken Silverman ⓘ |
| dimensionality | 2.5D ⓘ |
| era | pre-hardware-accelerated 3D era ⓘ |
| genre | first-person shooter ⓘ |
| graphicsFeature |
2D map with height information
ⓘ
parallax skies ⓘ room-over-room effect via portal tricks ⓘ sector-based level geometry ⓘ sloped surfaces ⓘ sprite-based objects ⓘ voxel support (in some games) ⓘ |
| graphicsTechnology | software rendering ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | important engine in mid-1990s FPS development ⓘ |
| influenced |
BuildGDX
ⓘ
EDuke32 ⓘ NBlood ⓘ PCExhumed ⓘ |
| initialReleaseYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| licenseModel | proprietary ⓘ |
| notability | best known for powering Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, and Shadow Warrior ⓘ |
| notableFeature | real-time level editing in original tools ⓘ |
| notableGame |
Blood
ⓘ
Duke Nukem 3D ⓘ Powerslave ⓘ Redneck Rampage ⓘ Shadow Warrior ⓘ
linked to:
Shadow Warrior (2013)
TekWar ⓘ Witchaven ⓘ Witchaven II: Blood Vengeance ⓘ
linked to:
Witchaven
|
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| publisherOfLicensedGames |
3D Realms
ⓘ
GT Interactive ⓘ |
| releasePeriod | mid-1990s ⓘ |
| sourceCodeStatus | partially released ⓘ |
| supportsPerspective | pseudo-3D ⓘ |
| supportsView | first-person view ⓘ |
| tooling | Build editor ⓘ |
| usedForPlatform |
Linux
ⓘ
MS-DOS ⓘ Mac OS ⓘ
linked to:
macOS
Microsoft Windows ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Build engine Description of subject: The Build engine is a 2.5D first-person shooter game engine best known for powering mid-1990s titles like Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, and Shadow Warrior.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.