Riot Games
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Riot Games is an American video game developer and publisher best known for creating the popular multiplayer online battle arena game League of Legends.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Riot Games canonical | 16 |
| Riot Games Esports | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4597865 — 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: Riot Games Context triple: [Tencent, owns, Riot Games]
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A.
Blizzard Seoul
Blizzard Seoul is the South Korean branch of Blizzard Entertainment, overseeing the company’s operations, localization, and esports initiatives in the Korean market.
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B.
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment is a renowned American video game developer and publisher best known for creating major franchises such as Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo.
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C.
League of Legends
League of Legends is a popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed by Riot Games, known for its competitive esports scene and strategic team-based gameplay.
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D.
Activision Blizzard
Activision Blizzard is a major American video game holding company known for franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch.
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E.
Team SoloMid
Team SoloMid (TSM) is a prominent North American esports organization best known for its highly successful League of Legends team and strong competitive legacy across multiple games.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Riot Games Target entity description: Riot Games is an American video game developer and publisher best known for creating the popular multiplayer online battle arena game League of Legends.
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A.
Blizzard Seoul
Blizzard Seoul is the South Korean branch of Blizzard Entertainment, overseeing the company’s operations, localization, and esports initiatives in the Korean market.
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B.
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment is a renowned American video game developer and publisher best known for creating major franchises such as Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo.
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C.
League of Legends
League of Legends is a popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed by Riot Games, known for its competitive esports scene and strategic team-based gameplay.
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D.
Activision Blizzard
Activision Blizzard is a major American video game holding company known for franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch.
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E.
Team SoloMid
Team SoloMid (TSM) is a prominent North American esports organization best known for its highly successful League of Legends team and strong competitive legacy across multiple games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
subsidiary
ⓘ
video game company ⓘ video game developer ⓘ video game publisher ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Tencent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| developed |
League of Legends
NERFINISHED
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League of Legends: Wild Rift NERFINISHED ⓘ Legends of Runeterra NERFINISHED ⓘ Teamfight Tactics NERFINISHED ⓘ Valorant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Riot Games, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Brandon Beck
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marc Merrill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreDeveloped |
auto battler
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digital collectible card game ⓘ fighting game ⓘ first-person shooter ⓘ multiplayer online battle arena ⓘ |
| hasESportsLeague |
League Championship Series
NERFINISHED
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League of Legends European Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ League of Legends World Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ Valorant Champions Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGameUniverse | Runeterra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLogo | Riot Games logo ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| inception | 2006 ⓘ |
| industry |
esports
ⓘ
video games ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAward | Technology & Engineering Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Arcane
NERFINISHED
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League of Legends NERFINISHED ⓘ League of Legends: Wild Rift NERFINISHED ⓘ Legends of Runeterra NERFINISHED ⓘ Teamfight Tactics NERFINISHED ⓘ Valorant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployees | 5000+ ⓘ |
| officialWebsite | https://www.riotgames.com ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Tencent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| produced | Arcane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subsidiary |
Riot Forge
NERFINISHED
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Riot Games Esports NERFINISHED ⓘ Riot Games Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Riot Games Description of subject: Riot Games is an American video game developer and publisher best known for creating the popular multiplayer online battle arena game League of Legends.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Riot Games Esports