Playdom
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Playdom was a social gaming company best known for developing popular games for platforms like Facebook before being acquired by The Walt Disney Company.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pet Society | 1 |
| Playdom canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5558930 — 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: Playdom Context triple: [Steve Meretzky, workedAt, Playdom]
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A.
Playfish
Playfish was a pioneering social gaming company best known for creating popular Facebook and mobile games before being acquired by Electronic Arts.
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B.
Ludo
Ludo is a common short form or nickname for the given name Ludovica.
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C.
Ludo
Ludo is a gentle, horned beast-like creature from the fantasy film "Labyrinth" who befriends Sarah and helps her navigate the Goblin King's maze.
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D.
Pengo
Pengo is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Pengo people in parts of central India, especially in Odisha and neighboring regions.
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E.
12 Play
12 Play is R. Kelly’s debut solo studio album, a landmark 1993 R&B release known for its sensual slow jams and major commercial success.
- 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: Playdom Target entity description: Playdom was a social gaming company best known for developing popular games for platforms like Facebook before being acquired by The Walt Disney Company.
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A.
Playfish
Playfish was a pioneering social gaming company best known for creating popular Facebook and mobile games before being acquired by Electronic Arts.
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B.
Ludo
Ludo is a common short form or nickname for the given name Ludovica.
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C.
Ludo
Ludo is a gentle, horned beast-like creature from the fantasy film "Labyrinth" who befriends Sarah and helps her navigate the Goblin King's maze.
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D.
Pengo
Pengo is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Pengo people in parts of central India, especially in Odisha and neighboring regions.
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E.
12 Play
12 Play is R. Kelly’s debut solo studio album, a landmark 1993 R&B release known for its sensual slow jams and major commercial success.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (80)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
social gaming company
ⓘ
video game developer ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | The Walt Disney Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2010-07-27 ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | 563000000 USD ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| dissolved | 2016 ⓘ |
| divisionOf | Disney Interactive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Alex Liu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alex Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ Andrew Liu NERFINISHED ⓘ Andrew Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ Brian Chu NERFINISHED ⓘ Brian Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ Brian Wu NERFINISHED ⓘ Chris Liu NERFINISHED ⓘ Chris Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ Dan Kim NERFINISHED ⓘ Dan Yue NERFINISHED ⓘ David Chang NERFINISHED ⓘ David King NERFINISHED ⓘ David Liu NERFINISHED ⓘ David Ma NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Liu NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ Gus Tai NERFINISHED ⓘ James Liu NERFINISHED ⓘ James Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Liu NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Tomlinson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ John Liu NERFINISHED ⓘ John Pleasants NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin Li NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ Ling Xiao NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Chang NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Li NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike O’Brien NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Liu NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ Roy Liu NERFINISHED ⓘ Sean Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ Shaun Merritt NERFINISHED ⓘ Steven Liu NERFINISHED ⓘ Steven Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Le NERFINISHED ⓘ William Liu NERFINISHED ⓘ William Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
casual games
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role-playing games ⓘ simulation games ⓘ strategy games ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Mountain View, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sunnyvale, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
social network games
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video games ⓘ |
| notableEvent | acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2010 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
City of Wonder
NERFINISHED
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Gardens of Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Market Street NERFINISHED ⓘ Marvel: Avengers Alliance NERFINISHED ⓘ Mobsters NERFINISHED ⓘ Mobsters 2: Vendetta NERFINISHED ⓘ Social City NERFINISHED ⓘ Sorority Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Tiki Resort NERFINISHED ⓘ Wild Ones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployees | approximately 700 ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Disney Interactive Studios
NERFINISHED
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The Walt Disney Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platform |
Android
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Facebook NERFINISHED ⓘ MySpace NERFINISHED ⓘ iOS ⓘ |
| product | social network games ⓘ |
| serviceArea | worldwide ⓘ |
| website | http://www.playdom.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: Playdom Description of subject: Playdom was a social gaming company best known for developing popular games for platforms like Facebook before being acquired by The Walt Disney Company.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Pet Society