Minesweeper
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Minesweeper is a classic single-player logic puzzle video game in which players uncover squares on a grid while avoiding hidden mines.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Minesweeper (Windows 8 app) | 1 |
| Minesweeper canonical | 1 |
| hexagonal-grid Minesweeper | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1718663 — 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: Minesweeper Context triple: [Windows 95, includedComponent, Minesweeper]
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A.
Solitaire
Solitaire is a fictional psychic tarot reader and Bond girl who appears as a key ally and love interest to James Bond in the novel and film "Live and Let Die."
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B.
Trichinopoly
Trichinopoly, now commonly known as Tiruchirappalli, is a historic city in Tamil Nadu, India, renowned for its ancient temples and strategic location on the banks of the Kaveri River.
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C.
the Fifteen
The Fifteen was a major early 18th-century Jacobite rebellion in Britain that sought to restore the exiled Stuart dynasty to the throne.
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D.
Ludo
Ludo is a common short form or nickname for the given name Ludovica.
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E.
The Gamester
The Gamester is a Caroline-era tragicomedy play by English dramatist James Shirley, centered on themes of gambling, honor, and social intrigue.
- 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: Minesweeper Target entity description: Minesweeper is a classic single-player logic puzzle video game in which players uncover squares on a grid while avoiding hidden mines.
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A.
Solitaire
Solitaire is a fictional psychic tarot reader and Bond girl who appears as a key ally and love interest to James Bond in the novel and film "Live and Let Die."
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B.
Trichinopoly
Trichinopoly, now commonly known as Tiruchirappalli, is a historic city in Tamil Nadu, India, renowned for its ancient temples and strategic location on the banks of the Kaveri River.
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C.
the Fifteen
The Fifteen was a major early 18th-century Jacobite rebellion in Britain that sought to restore the exiled Stuart dynasty to the throne.
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D.
Ludo
Ludo is a common short form or nickname for the given name Ludovica.
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E.
The Gamester
The Gamester is a Caroline-era tragicomedy play by English dramatist James Shirley, centered on themes of gambling, honor, and social intrigue.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
logic puzzle
ⓘ
single-player game ⓘ video game ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| difficultyLevel |
Beginner
ⓘ
Expert ⓘ Intermediate ⓘ |
| feature |
difficulty levels
ⓘ
flagging suspected mines ⓘ numbered clues indicating adjacent mines ⓘ timer for completion time ⓘ |
| gameplayMechanic |
deductive reasoning
ⓘ
grid-based playfield ⓘ hidden mines ⓘ tile uncovering ⓘ |
| genre | puzzle video game ⓘ |
| gridSize |
16x16 (Intermediate)
ⓘ
30x16 (Expert) ⓘ 9x9 (Beginner) ⓘ |
| hasCommunity |
puzzle-solving community
ⓘ
speedrunning community ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Minesweeper
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Minesweeper (Windows 8 app)
Minesweeper self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
hexagonal-grid Minesweeper
multiplayer Minesweeper variants ⓘ online Minesweeper clones ⓘ triangular-grid Minesweeper ⓘ |
| includedIn |
Microsoft Entertainment Pack
ⓘ
Windows 3.x ⓘ
surface form:
Windows 3.1
later versions of Microsoft Windows ⓘ |
| inputMethod |
keyboard
ⓘ
mouse ⓘ touchscreen ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Mined-Out
ⓘ
Relentless Logic ⓘ |
| mineCount |
10 (Beginner)
ⓘ
40 (Intermediate) ⓘ 99 (Expert) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being bundled with Microsoft Windows
ⓘ
teaching mouse control to new computer users ⓘ |
| objective |
avoid detonating mines
ⓘ
clear all non-mine squares ⓘ |
| platform |
Windows
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
mobile devices ⓘ web browser ⓘ |
| publisher | Microsoft ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1990 ⓘ |
| rule |
clicking a mine ends the game
ⓘ
game is won when all safe squares are revealed ⓘ numbers show count of adjacent mines ⓘ player can place flags on suspected mines ⓘ |
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: Minesweeper Description of subject: Minesweeper is a classic single-player logic puzzle video game in which players uncover squares on a grid while avoiding hidden mines.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Microsoft Minesweeper (Windows 8 app)
this entity surface form:
hexagonal-grid Minesweeper