Game Developers Conference
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The Game Developers Conference is a major annual professional event where video game creators, programmers, artists, and industry leaders gather for talks, networking, and showcasing new technologies and games.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Game Developers Conference canonical | 2 |
| Game Developers Conference 2015 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4837813 — 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: Game Developers Conference Context triple: [Moscone Center, hostedEvent, Game Developers Conference]
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A.
Electronic Entertainment Expo
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is a major annual trade event where video game publishers, developers, and hardware manufacturers showcase upcoming games and gaming technologies to industry professionals and media.
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B.
TwitchCon convention
TwitchCon convention is an annual fan and creator event celebrating the Twitch streaming community with live shows, gaming, meet-and-greets, and industry panels.
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C.
Games Without Frontiers
"Games Without Frontiers" is a 1980 art rock/new wave song by Peter Gabriel, known for its satirical take on international politics and its distinctive whistled melody and Kate Bush backing vocals.
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D.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is Apple Inc.’s annual conference where the company unveils new software platforms, tools, and technologies to developers through keynotes and technical sessions.
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E.
TGS
TGS is the central administrative and academic unit overseeing graduate education and research programs at Northwestern University.
- 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: Game Developers Conference Target entity description: The Game Developers Conference is a major annual professional event where video game creators, programmers, artists, and industry leaders gather for talks, networking, and showcasing new technologies and games.
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A.
Electronic Entertainment Expo
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is a major annual trade event where video game publishers, developers, and hardware manufacturers showcase upcoming games and gaming technologies to industry professionals and media.
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B.
TwitchCon convention
TwitchCon convention is an annual fan and creator event celebrating the Twitch streaming community with live shows, gaming, meet-and-greets, and industry panels.
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C.
Games Without Frontiers
"Games Without Frontiers" is a 1980 art rock/new wave song by Peter Gabriel, known for its satirical take on international politics and its distinctive whistled melody and Kate Bush backing vocals.
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D.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is Apple Inc.’s annual conference where the company unveils new software platforms, tools, and technologies to developers through keynotes and technical sessions.
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E.
TGS
TGS is the central administrative and academic unit overseeing graduate education and research programs at Northwestern University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
professional conference
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trade fair ⓘ video game industry event ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | GDC Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| field | video game development ⓘ |
| formerOrganizer | UBM Tech Game Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | Chris Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Game Developers Choice Awards
NERFINISHED
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Independent Games Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ career pavilion ⓘ expo floor ⓘ lectures ⓘ networking events ⓘ panels ⓘ roundtable discussions ⓘ technical sessions ⓘ tutorials ⓘ |
| hasSpinOff |
GDC China
NERFINISHED
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GDC Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ GDC Online NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1988 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEventType |
keynote speeches
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postmortem talks ⓘ |
| organizer | Informa Tech NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryVenue | Moscone Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName | GDC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
artists
ⓘ
audio professionals ⓘ business professionals ⓘ game designers ⓘ game developers ⓘ producers ⓘ programmers ⓘ |
| topic |
audio design
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augmented reality ⓘ business and marketing ⓘ game design ⓘ game engines ⓘ game programming ⓘ mobile games ⓘ online games ⓘ production ⓘ virtual reality ⓘ visual arts ⓘ |
| typicalMonthHeld | March ⓘ |
| website | https://gdconf.com ⓘ |
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: Game Developers Conference Description of subject: The Game Developers Conference is a major annual professional event where video game creators, programmers, artists, and industry leaders gather for talks, networking, and showcasing new technologies and games.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Game Developers Conference 2015