Vault-Tec
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Vault-Tec is a fictional corporation in the Fallout video game series known for designing and operating the underground Vaults used as experimental shelters before and after nuclear war.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vault-Tec Corporation | 2 |
| Vault-Tec canonical | 1 |
| Vault-Tec Workshop | 1 |
| Vault-Tec logo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2911009 — 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: Vault-Tec Context triple: [Fallout (video game series), notableOrganization, Vault-Tec]
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A.
Nuka Bay
Nuka Bay is a remote coastal inlet in southern Alaska known for its rugged wilderness, marine wildlife, and access to glaciers within the Kenai Peninsula region.
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B.
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is a fictional company in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, notorious for producing irritating and malfunction-prone robots and technology.
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C.
Maryland Correctional Enterprises
Maryland Correctional Enterprises is a state-run prison industry program in Maryland that provides work and job training opportunities to incarcerated individuals through the production of goods and services for government and nonprofit customers.
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D.
Springfield Armory
Springfield Armory was a historic United States firearms manufacturing and military small arms research facility in Springfield, Massachusetts, that played a central role in American arms production from the Revolutionary War through the 20th century.
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E.
Mirage Enterprises
Mirage Enterprises is a film production company best known for producing acclaimed movies such as the Academy Award–winning drama "Out of Africa."
- 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: Vault-Tec Target entity description: Vault-Tec is a fictional corporation in the Fallout video game series known for designing and operating the underground Vaults used as experimental shelters before and after nuclear war.
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A.
Nuka Bay
Nuka Bay is a remote coastal inlet in southern Alaska known for its rugged wilderness, marine wildlife, and access to glaciers within the Kenai Peninsula region.
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B.
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is a fictional company in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, notorious for producing irritating and malfunction-prone robots and technology.
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C.
Maryland Correctional Enterprises
Maryland Correctional Enterprises is a state-run prison industry program in Maryland that provides work and job training opportunities to incarcerated individuals through the production of goods and services for government and nonprofit customers.
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D.
Springfield Armory
Springfield Armory was a historic United States firearms manufacturing and military small arms research facility in Springfield, Massachusetts, that played a central role in American arms production from the Revolutionary War through the 20th century.
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E.
Mirage Enterprises
Mirage Enterprises is a film production company best known for producing acclaimed movies such as the Academy Award–winning drama "Out of Africa."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fallout universe entity
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fictional corporation ⓘ organization in fiction ⓘ |
| activity |
designing underground Vaults
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operating underground Vaults ⓘ social experiments on Vault dwellers ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Fallout (video game series)
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surface form:
Fallout
Fallout (video game series) ⓘ
surface form:
Fallout (TV series)
Fallout 2 ⓘ Fallout 3 ⓘ Fallout 4 ⓘ Fallout 76 ⓘ Fallout (video game series) ⓘ
surface form:
Fallout series
Fallout: New Vegas ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Enclave
ⓘ
United States government ⓘ
surface form:
United States government (Fallout universe)
|
| category |
Fallout organizations
ⓘ
Fictional companies ⓘ |
| countryInFiction |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator |
Bethesda Game Studios
ⓘ
Interplay Productions ⓘ
surface form:
Interplay Entertainment
|
| fictionalHeadquartersLocation |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C. (Fallout universe)
|
| fictionalStatus | pre-war U.S. government contractor ⓘ |
| industry |
defense contracting
ⓘ
shelter manufacturing ⓘ vault construction ⓘ |
| inUniverseTechnology | Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System (V.A.T.S.) ⓘ |
| logoFeature | gear-shaped symbol ⓘ |
| medium |
television series
ⓘ
video games ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
Vault 101
ⓘ
Vault 13 ⓘ
surface form:
Vault 111
Vault 13 ⓘ Vault 76 ⓘ |
| notableProductType | underground Vault ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
amoral
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corporate ⓘ secretive ⓘ |
| roleInUniverse |
designer of pre-war Vault network
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operator of experimental shelters ⓘ |
| settingTime |
post-Great War era
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pre-Great War era ⓘ |
| theme |
corporate dystopia
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government-corporate conspiracy ⓘ human experimentation ⓘ |
| universe |
Fallout (video game series)
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surface form:
Fallout
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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: Vault-Tec Description of subject: Vault-Tec is a fictional corporation in the Fallout video game series known for designing and operating the underground Vaults used as experimental shelters before and after nuclear war.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Vault Boy
this entity surface form:
Vault-Tec Corporation
subject surface form:
Vault Boy
this entity surface form:
Vault-Tec logo
subject surface form:
Pip-Boy
this entity surface form:
Vault-Tec Corporation