id Tech 1
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id Tech 1 is a pioneering first-person shooter game engine best known for powering id Software’s classic titles like Doom and Heretic, and for popularizing fast, real-time 3D-like graphics in the early 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| id Tech 1 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2432922 — 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)
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Target entity: id Tech 1 Context triple: [id Software, developedTechnology, id Tech 1]
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A.
Doom
Doom is a 2005 science fiction action horror film adaptation of the popular video game series, starring Karl Urban and Dwayne Johnson as space marines battling monstrous creatures on a Martian research facility.
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B.
Illadelph Halflife
Illadelph Halflife is a critically acclaimed 1996 hip-hop album by The Roots known for its live-instrumentation sound, socially conscious lyrics, and jazzy, experimental production.
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C.
Sledgehammer
"Sledgehammer" is a 1986 hit single by English musician Peter Gabriel, renowned for its soulful sound and groundbreaking stop-motion music video.
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D.
id Software
id Software is an American video game developer best known for pioneering the first-person shooter genre with titles like Doom and Quake.
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E.
Battlefield
"Battlefield" is a pop-R&B song written and produced by Ryan Tedder, best known as the powerful lead single for Jordin Sparks’ 2009 album of the same name.
- 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: id Tech 1 Target entity description: id Tech 1 is a pioneering first-person shooter game engine best known for powering id Software’s classic titles like Doom and Heretic, and for popularizing fast, real-time 3D-like graphics in the early 1990s.
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A.
Doom
Doom is a 2005 science fiction action horror film adaptation of the popular video game series, starring Karl Urban and Dwayne Johnson as space marines battling monstrous creatures on a Martian research facility.
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B.
Illadelph Halflife
Illadelph Halflife is a critically acclaimed 1996 hip-hop album by The Roots known for its live-instrumentation sound, socially conscious lyrics, and jazzy, experimental production.
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C.
Sledgehammer
"Sledgehammer" is a 1986 hit single by English musician Peter Gabriel, renowned for its soulful sound and groundbreaking stop-motion music video.
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D.
id Software
id Software is an American video game developer best known for pioneering the first-person shooter genre with titles like Doom and Quake.
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E.
Battlefield
"Battlefield" is a pop-R&B song written and produced by Ryan Tedder, best known as the powerful lead single for Jordin Sparks’ 2009 album of the same name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
first-person shooter engine
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game engine ⓘ id Software game engine ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Doom game engine
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surface form:
Doom engine
|
| architecture | sector-based map representation ⓘ |
| dataFormat | WAD (Where's All the Data) ⓘ |
| developer | id Software ⓘ |
| graphicsType | 2.5D ⓘ |
| influenced |
Build engine
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Quake engine ⓘ id Tech engine ⓘ
surface form:
id Tech 2
|
| license | proprietary at initial release ⓘ |
| notableFor |
enabling extensive user-created mods and levels
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popularizing fast real-time 3D-like graphics in early 1990s ⓘ powering Doom and Heretic series ⓘ |
| platform |
3DO
ⓘ
Atari Jaguar ⓘ Linux ⓘ MS-DOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ
surface form:
Mac OS
PlayStation ⓘ Sega 32X ⓘ Sega Saturn ⓘ Super Nintendo Entertainment System ⓘ Windows ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
C
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x86 assembly ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| renderingTechnique |
binary space partitioning
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ray casting-like column renderer ⓘ |
| sourceCodeLicense |
GNU General Public License
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surface form:
GNU General Public License v2
|
| sourceCodeReleased | true ⓘ |
| sourceCodeReleaseYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
WAD file system
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cooperative multiplayer ⓘ light levels ⓘ modding via custom WADs ⓘ multiplayer deathmatch ⓘ sector-based level geometry ⓘ texture mapping ⓘ |
| usedInGame |
Chex Quest
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Chex Quest 2 ⓘ Chex Quest 3 ⓘ Doom (1993 video game) ⓘ
surface form:
Doom
Doom II: Hell on Earth ⓘ Final Doom ⓘ Hacx: Twitch 'n Kill ⓘ Heretic (video game) ⓘ
surface form:
Heretic
Hexen: Beyond Heretic ⓘ Strife ⓘ The Ultimate Doom ⓘ |
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: id Tech 1 Description of subject: id Tech 1 is a pioneering first-person shooter game engine best known for powering id Software’s classic titles like Doom and Heretic, and for popularizing fast, real-time 3D-like graphics in the early 1990s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
id Tech