Heretic (video game)
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Heretic is a 1994 dark fantasy first-person shooter built on a modified Doom engine, known for its medieval setting, magical weapons, and early implementation of features like inventory and vertical aiming.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heretic | 4 |
| Heretic series | 2 |
| Heretic (video game) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2433039 — 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: Heretic (video game) Context triple: [Doom franchise, influenced, Heretic (video game)]
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A.
Strife
Strife is a 1909 stage play by John Galsworthy that portrays a bitter industrial conflict between capital and labor, highlighting the human cost of class struggle.
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B.
Havoc
Havoc is an American rapper and record producer best known as one half of the influential hip-hop duo Mobb Deep.
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C.
Simon the Zealot
Simon the Zealot is a figure in the New Testament traditionally recognized as one of Jesus Christ’s twelve apostles, distinguished by his epithet suggesting former association with a Jewish nationalist movement.
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D.
Risen
Risen is a 2016 biblical drama film that follows a Roman tribune investigating the mysterious disappearance of Jesus’ body after the crucifixion.
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E.
Kotor
Kotor is a historic coastal town in southwestern Montenegro, renowned for its well-preserved medieval old town and dramatic bay-side setting.
- 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: Heretic (video game) Target entity description: Heretic is a 1994 dark fantasy first-person shooter built on a modified Doom engine, known for its medieval setting, magical weapons, and early implementation of features like inventory and vertical aiming.
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A.
Strife
Strife is a 1909 stage play by John Galsworthy that portrays a bitter industrial conflict between capital and labor, highlighting the human cost of class struggle.
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B.
Havoc
Havoc is an American rapper and record producer best known as one half of the influential hip-hop duo Mobb Deep.
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C.
Simon the Zealot
Simon the Zealot is a figure in the New Testament traditionally recognized as one of Jesus Christ’s twelve apostles, distinguished by his epithet suggesting former association with a Jewish nationalist movement.
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D.
Risen
Risen is a 2016 biblical drama film that follows a Roman tribune investigating the mysterious disappearance of Jesus’ body after the crucifixion.
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E.
Kotor
Kotor is a historic coastal town in southwestern Montenegro, renowned for its well-preserved medieval old town and dramatic bay-side setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dark fantasy video game
ⓘ
first-person shooter video game ⓘ video game ⓘ |
| ageRatingSystem | ESRB ⓘ |
| audioFormat | MIDI soundtrack ⓘ |
| bossCharacter | D'Sparil ⓘ |
| coPublisher | GT Interactive ⓘ |
| developer | Raven Software ⓘ |
| distributor | GT Interactive ⓘ |
| enemyType |
disciples of D'Sparil
ⓘ
gargoyles ⓘ undead creatures ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Heretic II (Amiga port)
ⓘ
surface form:
Heretic II
Hexen: Beyond Heretic ⓘ |
| gameEngineModification | modified Doom engine ⓘ |
| gameMode |
multiplayer
ⓘ
single-player ⓘ |
| genre |
dark fantasy
ⓘ
first-person shooter ⓘ |
| initialReleaseDate | 1994-12-23 ⓘ |
| multiplayerMode |
cooperative
ⓘ
deathmatch ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
environmental effects like wind and water currents
ⓘ
flight power-up ⓘ inventory system ⓘ vertical aiming support ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early implementation of inventory in FPS games
ⓘ
early implementation of vertical aiming in FPS games ⓘ |
| originalPlatform | MS-DOS ⓘ |
| perspective | first-person ⓘ |
| platform |
Atari Jaguar
ⓘ
surface form:
Atari Jaguar (unreleased port)
Classic Mac OS ⓘ Linux ⓘ MS-DOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ
surface form:
Mac OS
Sega 32X ⓘ
surface form:
Sega 32X (unreleased port)
Windows ⓘ |
| powerUp |
Morph Ovum
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Quartz Flask ⓘ Shadowsphere ⓘ Tome of Power ⓘ Wings of Wrath ⓘ |
| protagonist | Sidhe elf ⓘ |
| protagonistName | Corvus ⓘ |
| publisher | id Software ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| series |
Heretic (video game)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Heretic series
|
| setting | medieval fantasy world ⓘ |
| supports | modding via WAD files ⓘ |
| usesGameEngine |
Doom game engine
ⓘ
surface form:
Doom engine
|
| visualStyle | 2.5D sprite-based graphics ⓘ |
| weapon |
Dragon Claw
ⓘ
Elvenwand ⓘ Ethereal Crossbow ⓘ Firemace ⓘ Hellstaff ⓘ Phoenix Rod ⓘ |
| weaponType | magical weapons ⓘ |
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: Heretic (video game) Description of subject: Heretic is a 1994 dark fantasy first-person shooter built on a modified Doom engine, known for its medieval setting, magical weapons, and early implementation of features like inventory and vertical aiming.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Doom franchise
this entity surface form:
Heretic
this entity surface form:
Heretic
this entity surface form:
Heretic
subject surface form:
Heretic
this entity surface form:
Heretic series
this entity surface form:
Heretic series
this entity surface form:
Heretic