NBA 2K
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NBA 2K is a long-running basketball video game series that simulates the NBA with realistic gameplay, teams, and players.
All labels observed (22)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NBA 2K canonical | 99 |
| NBA 2K series | 8 |
| NBA 2K20 | 7 |
| NBA 2K22 | 7 |
| NBA 2K23 | 6 |
| NBA 2K24 | 6 |
| NBA 2K video game series | 5 |
| NBA 2K19 | 5 |
| NBA 2K18 | 4 |
| NBA 2K21 | 4 |
| NBA 2K15 | 3 |
| NBA 2K16 | 3 |
| NBA 2K basketball simulation series | 2 |
| NBA 2K17 | 2 |
| NBA 2K Pro-Am | 1 |
| NBA 2K franchise | 1 |
| NBA 2K video game | 1 |
| NBA 2K video game franchise | 1 |
| NBA 2K10 | 1 |
| NBA 2K11 | 1 |
| NBA 2K14 | 1 |
| NBA 2K2 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T109271 — 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: NBA 2K Context triple: [Wizards District Gaming, hasGame, NBA 2K]
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A.
NBA 2K League
The NBA 2K League is a professional esports league co-founded by the NBA and Take-Two Interactive that features official NBA team-affiliated squads competing in the NBA 2K video game.
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B.
NBA All-Star Game
The NBA All-Star Game is an annual midseason exhibition basketball game that showcases the league’s top players, featuring fan-selected stars, high-scoring play, and a weekend of related events and festivities.
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C.
Apex
Apex is a suburban town in North Carolina’s Research Triangle region, known for its historic downtown and high quality of life.
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D.
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association is the premier professional men's basketball league in North America, featuring top teams and players and widely regarded as the highest level of basketball competition in the world.
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E.
NBA Finals games
NBA Finals games are the championship series of the National Basketball Association, determining the league’s annual champion in a best-of-seven playoff between the Eastern and Western Conference winners.
- 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: NBA 2K Target entity description: NBA 2K is a long-running basketball video game series that simulates the NBA with realistic gameplay, teams, and players.
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A.
NBA 2K League
The NBA 2K League is a professional esports league co-founded by the NBA and Take-Two Interactive that features official NBA team-affiliated squads competing in the NBA 2K video game.
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B.
NBA All-Star Game
The NBA All-Star Game is an annual midseason exhibition basketball game that showcases the league’s top players, featuring fan-selected stars, high-scoring play, and a weekend of related events and festivities.
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C.
Apex
Apex is a suburban town in North Carolina’s Research Triangle region, known for its historic downtown and high quality of life.
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D.
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association is the premier professional men's basketball league in North America, featuring top teams and players and widely regarded as the highest level of basketball competition in the world.
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E.
NBA Finals games
NBA Finals games are the championship series of the National Basketball Association, determining the league’s annual champion in a best-of-seven playoff between the Eastern and Western Conference winners.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball video game series
ⓘ
video game series ⓘ |
| basedOn | National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developer | Visual Concepts ⓘ |
| firstReleasePlatform | Dreamcast ⓘ |
| firstReleaseTitle | NBA 2K self-link ⓘ |
| firstReleaseYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| formerPublisher | Sega Sports ⓘ |
| genre |
basketball simulation
ⓘ
sports ⓘ |
| hasCompetition | NBA Live ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
MyCareer mode
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MyGM mode ⓘ MyLeague mode ⓘ MyTeam mode ⓘ career mode ⓘ franchise mode ⓘ online multiplayer ⓘ real NBA players ⓘ real NBA teams ⓘ season mode ⓘ |
| hasMode |
multiplayer
ⓘ
single-player ⓘ |
| hasTheme | professional basketball ⓘ |
| knownFor |
annual releases
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licensed NBA presentation ⓘ realistic basketball gameplay ⓘ |
| notableEntry |
NBA 2K
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
NBA 2K11
NBA 2K self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
NBA 2K16
NBA 2K self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
NBA 2K20
NBA 2K self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
NBA 2K24
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| owner | 2K ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Take-Two Interactive ⓘ |
| platform |
Android
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Dreamcast ⓘ Windows ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
Nintendo GameCube ⓘ Nintendo Switch ⓘ PlayStation ⓘ
surface form:
PlayStation 2
Sony PlayStation 3 ⓘ
surface form:
PlayStation 3
PlayStation 4 ⓘ PlayStation 5 ⓘ Xbox ⓘ Xbox ⓘ
surface form:
Xbox 360
Xbox ⓘ
surface form:
Xbox One
Xbox ⓘ
surface form:
Xbox Series X/S
iOS ⓘ |
| publisher |
Take-Two Interactive
ⓘ
surface form:
2K Sports
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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: NBA 2K Description of subject: NBA 2K is a long-running basketball video game series that simulates the NBA with realistic gameplay, teams, and players.
Referenced by (169)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
NBA 2K video game series
this entity surface form:
NBA 2K19
this entity surface form:
NBA 2K20
this entity surface form:
NBA 2K22
this entity surface form:
NBA 2K24
this entity surface form:
NBA 2K23
this entity surface form:
NBA 2K22
this entity surface form:
NBA 2K video game series