MWY
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MWY was the stock ticker symbol for Midway Games, an American video game publisher best known for franchises like Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MWY canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11250942 — 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: MWY Context triple: [Midway Games, tickerSymbol, MWY]
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A.
MW
MW is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Malawi.
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B.
MW
MW is the commonly used abbreviation for Metro Warszawskie, the company operating the Warsaw Metro system in Poland.
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C.
MW
MW is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for cars registered in the District of Mittelsachsen in Germany.
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D.
MJY
MJY is the station code for Mount Joy railway station in Ontario, Canada, which serves GO Transit and VIA Rail passengers.
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E.
MVY
MVY is the IATA airport code for Martha's Vineyard Airport, the primary commercial airport serving Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, USA.
- 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: MWY Target entity description: MWY was the stock ticker symbol for Midway Games, an American video game publisher best known for franchises like Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam.
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A.
MW
MW is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Malawi.
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B.
MW
MW is the commonly used abbreviation for Metro Warszawskie, the company operating the Warsaw Metro system in Poland.
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C.
MW
MW is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for cars registered in the District of Mittelsachsen in Germany.
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D.
MJY
MJY is the station code for Mount Joy railway station in Ontario, Canada, which serves GO Transit and VIA Rail passengers.
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E.
MVY
MVY is the IATA airport code for Martha's Vineyard Airport, the primary commercial airport serving Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, USA.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stock ticker symbol ⓘ |
| associatedWithEra |
1990s video game industry
ⓘ
early 2000s video game industry ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre |
fighting games
ⓘ
sports games ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlatform |
arcade
ⓘ
home consoles ⓘ |
| countryOfExchange |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| currencyOfTrading | US dollar ⓘ |
| exchangeSymbolType | equity security ⓘ |
| industryOfUnderlyingCompany | video game industry ⓘ |
| listedOn | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| refersTo | Midway Games ⓘ |
| underlyingCompanyBasedInState | Illinois ⓘ |
| underlyingCompanyBusinessType |
arcade game developer
ⓘ
home console game publisher ⓘ |
| underlyingCompanyHeadquartersCity | Chicago ⓘ |
| underlyingCompanyHeadquartersCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| underlyingCompanyInstanceOf | video game publisher ⓘ |
| underlyingCompanyName |
Midway Games Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Midway Games
|
| underlyingCompanyNotableFranchise |
Mortal Kombat
ⓘ
NBA Jam ⓘ Rampage ⓘ Spy Hunter ⓘ
linked to:
Spy Hunter (reboot)
|
| underlyingCompanyStatus | defunct ⓘ |
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: MWY Description of subject: MWY was the stock ticker symbol for Midway Games, an American video game publisher best known for franchises like Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.