Sam & Max Hit the Road
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Sam & Max Hit the Road is a 1993 comedic point-and-click adventure game starring the freelance police duo Sam and Max as they investigate a bizarre cross-country mystery across the United States.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam & Max Hit the Road canonical | 5 |
| Sam & Max comic series | 1 |
| Sam & Max franchise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1804138 — 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: Sam & Max Hit the Road Context triple: [LucasArts, notableWork, Sam & Max Hit the Road]
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A.
Shenanigans
Shenanigans is a 2002 compilation album by American punk rock band Green Day, featuring B-sides, rarities, and previously unreleased tracks.
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B.
Sky Max
Sky Max is a British pay television channel from Sky that focuses on premium drama, comedy, and entertainment programming in the UK and Ireland.
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C.
Bootjack
Bootjack is a small unincorporated community located in Mariposa County, California, near the Sierra Nevada foothills and the gateway to Yosemite National Park.
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D.
Save the Night
"Save the Night" is a song by John Legend from his R&B album "Love in the Future."
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E.
Escapade
"Escapade" is an upbeat, chart-topping pop and R&B single by Janet Jackson from her 1989 album "Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814."
- 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: Sam & Max Hit the Road Target entity description: Sam & Max Hit the Road is a 1993 comedic point-and-click adventure game starring the freelance police duo Sam and Max as they investigate a bizarre cross-country mystery across the United States.
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A.
Shenanigans
Shenanigans is a 2002 compilation album by American punk rock band Green Day, featuring B-sides, rarities, and previously unreleased tracks.
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B.
Sky Max
Sky Max is a British pay television channel from Sky that focuses on premium drama, comedy, and entertainment programming in the UK and Ireland.
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C.
Bootjack
Bootjack is a small unincorporated community located in Mariposa County, California, near the Sierra Nevada foothills and the gateway to Yosemite National Park.
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D.
Save the Night
"Save the Night" is a song by John Legend from his R&B album "Love in the Future."
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E.
Escapade
"Escapade" is an upbeat, chart-topping pop and R&B single by Janet Jackson from her 1989 album "Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
graphic adventure game
ⓘ
point-and-click adventure game ⓘ video game ⓘ |
| ageRating | Teen (varies by region and system) ⓘ |
| artStyle | 2D cartoon ⓘ |
| audio |
dynamic music
ⓘ
voice acting ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Sam & Max Hit the Road
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Sam & Max comic series
|
| basedOnWorkBy | Steve Purcell ⓘ |
| contains |
inventory-based puzzles
ⓘ
mini-games ⓘ |
| controlScheme | point-and-click interface ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | positive ⓘ |
| developer | LucasArts ⓘ |
| distribution |
CD-ROM
ⓘ
floppy disk ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Bigfoot ⓘ |
| gameEngine | SCUMM ⓘ |
| gameMode | single-player ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure game
ⓘ
comedy ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist |
Max
ⓘ
Sam ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Sam & Max Save the World ⓘ |
| inputMethod | mouse ⓘ |
| legacy | considered a classic of the adventure game genre ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | road trip ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bizarre puzzles
ⓘ
cartoon-style graphics ⓘ humorous dialogue ⓘ parodies of American roadside attractions ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
Sam & Max Hit the Road
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Sam & Max franchise
|
| perspective | third-person ⓘ |
| platform |
FM Towns
ⓘ
MS-DOS ⓘ Apple Macintosh computers ⓘ
surface form:
Macintosh
PC-98 ⓘ Windows ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Sam and Max investigate the disappearance of a frozen Bigfoot from a carnival freak show ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | freelance police ⓘ |
| publisher | LucasArts ⓘ |
| releaseDateNorthAmerica | 1993 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| setting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| starring |
Max
ⓘ
Sam ⓘ |
| usesTechnology | iMUSE ⓘ |
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: Sam & Max Hit the Road Description of subject: Sam & Max Hit the Road is a 1993 comedic point-and-click adventure game starring the freelance police duo Sam and Max as they investigate a bizarre cross-country mystery across the United States.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sam & Max comic series
this entity surface form:
Sam & Max franchise