Mega Man
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Mega Man is a classic video game hero and robot protagonist from Capcom’s long-running action-platformer series, known for copying enemies’ abilities and battling the villainous Dr. Wily.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mega Man canonical | 6 |
| Mega Man series | 2 |
| Mega Man (1987 video game) | 1 |
| Mega Man (animated series) | 1 |
| Mega Man 2 | 1 |
| Mega Man Battle Network | 1 |
| Mega Man Classic | 1 |
| Mega Man X | 1 |
| Megaman | 1 |
| Rockman | 1 |
| ロックマン | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3537814 — 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: Mega Man Context triple: [Super Smash Bros., includesThirdPartyCharacters, Mega Man]
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A.
Taitō
Taitō is a special ward in central Tokyo known for its historic districts, traditional temples, and major cultural attractions such as Ueno Park and Asakusa.
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B.
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog is a long-running video game franchise centered on a super-fast blue anthropomorphic hedgehog, spanning numerous games, TV shows, comics, and films.
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C.
Mario
Mario is a fictional Italian plumber and the iconic protagonist of Nintendo's long-running Super Mario video game franchise.
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D.
Mario
Mario is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and occasional actor best known for his early-2000s hits like "Let Me Love You."
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E.
Phantasy Star
Phantasy Star is a classic Japanese role-playing game franchise known for its pioneering blend of sci-fi and fantasy settings and its influential early titles on Sega consoles.
- 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: Mega Man Target entity description: Mega Man is a classic video game hero and robot protagonist from Capcom’s long-running action-platformer series, known for copying enemies’ abilities and battling the villainous Dr. Wily.
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A.
Taitō
Taitō is a special ward in central Tokyo known for its historic districts, traditional temples, and major cultural attractions such as Ueno Park and Asakusa.
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B.
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog is a long-running video game franchise centered on a super-fast blue anthropomorphic hedgehog, spanning numerous games, TV shows, comics, and films.
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C.
Mario
Mario is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and occasional actor best known for his early-2000s hits like "Let Me Love You."
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D.
Mario
Mario is a fictional Italian plumber and the iconic protagonist of Nintendo's long-running Super Mario video game franchise.
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E.
Phantasy Star
Phantasy Star is a classic Japanese role-playing game franchise known for its pioneering blend of sci-fi and fantasy settings and its influential early titles on Sega consoles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Capcom franchise
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android ⓘ fictional character ⓘ robot ⓘ video game character ⓘ |
| ally |
Dr. Light
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Proto Man ⓘ Roll ⓘ Rush ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Rock
ⓘ
Mega Man ⓘ
surface form:
Rockman
|
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| creator | Capcom ⓘ |
| creatorInFiction | Dr. Light ⓘ |
| designedAs | household robot ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceInVideoGame |
Mega Man
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mega Man (1987 video game)
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| firstAppearanceYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| franchise |
Mega Man
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Mega Man series
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| genre | action-platformer ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Mega Man
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mega Man (animated series)
Mega Man comics ⓘ |
| hasGameInSeries |
Mega Man 10
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Mega Man 11 ⓘ Mega Man 2 ⓘ Mega Man 3 ⓘ Mega Man 4 ⓘ Mega Man 5 ⓘ Mega Man 6 ⓘ Mega Man 7 ⓘ Mega Man 8 ⓘ Mega Man 9 ⓘ |
| laterRedesignedAs | combat robot ⓘ |
| mainAntagonist | Dr. Wily ⓘ |
| medium | video game ⓘ |
| notableAbility |
copying defeated enemies’ weapons
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using special weapons gained from Robot Masters ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
blue armor
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helmet with side crests ⓘ |
| originalJapaneseName |
Mega Man
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
ロックマン
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| platformOfDebut | Nintendo Entertainment System ⓘ |
| primaryWeapon |
Mega Buster
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arm cannon ⓘ |
| publisher | Capcom ⓘ |
| series |
Mega Man
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mega Man Classic
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| subSeries |
Mega Man
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mega Man Battle Network
Mega Man Legends ⓘ Mega Man Star Force ⓘ Mega Man self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mega Man X
Mega Man Zero ⓘ |
| typicalGoal |
defeat Dr. Wily
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stop Robot Masters ⓘ |
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: Mega Man Description of subject: Mega Man is a classic video game hero and robot protagonist from Capcom’s long-running action-platformer series, known for copying enemies’ abilities and battling the villainous Dr. Wily.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mega Man 2
this entity surface form:
Megaman
this entity surface form:
Mega Man series
this entity surface form:
Mega Man (1987 video game)
this entity surface form:
Rockman
this entity surface form:
ロックマン
this entity surface form:
Mega Man series
this entity surface form:
Mega Man Battle Network
this entity surface form:
Mega Man (animated series)