Sorcerer
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Sorcerer is a 1984 interactive fiction adventure game by Infocom, known for its magic-themed puzzles and text-based exploration in a fantasy world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sorcerer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5513629 — 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: Sorcerer Context triple: [Infocom, notableWork, Sorcerer]
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A.
Sorcerer
Sorcerer is a 1977 tense adventure thriller film directed by William Friedkin, known for its gritty realism and story of desperate men transporting unstable explosives through a dangerous jungle.
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B.
Sorcerer
Sorcerer is a 1967 jazz album by Miles Davis that marks a key phase in his second great quintet’s innovative, post-bop explorations.
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C.
The Sorcerer
"The Sorcerer" is a jazz composition by Herbie Hancock, best known as one of the tracks on his 1968 album "Speak Like a Child."
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D.
The Mage
The Mage is a powerful and enigmatic magic-user who aids Arthur with supernatural abilities and guidance in the fantasy film "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
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E.
Warlock
Warlock is a Hearthstone hero class themed around dark magic and demonic powers, often trading its own health for powerful cards and effects.
- 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: Sorcerer Target entity description: Sorcerer is a 1984 interactive fiction adventure game by Infocom, known for its magic-themed puzzles and text-based exploration in a fantasy world.
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A.
Sorcerer
Sorcerer is a 1977 tense adventure thriller film directed by William Friedkin, known for its gritty realism and story of desperate men transporting unstable explosives through a dangerous jungle.
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B.
Sorcerer
Sorcerer is a 1967 jazz album by Miles Davis that marks a key phase in his second great quintet’s innovative, post-bop explorations.
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C.
The Sorcerer
"The Sorcerer" is a jazz composition by Herbie Hancock, best known as one of the tracks on his 1968 album "Speak Like a Child."
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D.
The Mage
The Mage is a powerful and enigmatic magic-user who aids Arthur with supernatural abilities and guidance in the fantasy film "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
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E.
Warlock
Warlock is a Hearthstone hero class themed around dark magic and demonic powers, often trading its own health for powerful cards and effects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
interactive fiction video game
ⓘ
text adventure game ⓘ video game ⓘ |
| audio | minimal or no in-game sound ⓘ |
| company | Infocom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| copyProtection | feelies-based copy protection ⓘ |
| designer | Steve Meretzky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | Infocom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developerCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distribution | retail boxed release ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | floppy disk ⓘ |
| distributor | Infocom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1980s home computer games ⓘ |
| feature |
magic-themed puzzles
ⓘ
text-based exploration ⓘ |
| followedBy | Spellbreaker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gameMode | single-player ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure game
ⓘ
interactive fiction ⓘ |
| hasSaveFeature | yes ⓘ |
| includedMaterials | physical feelies ⓘ |
| inputMethod | text parser ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Infocom-style text parser
ⓘ
complex spell system ⓘ |
| platform |
Amiga
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Amstrad CPC NERFINISHED ⓘ Apple II NERFINISHED ⓘ Atari 8-bit family NERFINISHED ⓘ Atari ST NERFINISHED ⓘ Commodore 64 NERFINISHED ⓘ IBM PC NERFINISHED ⓘ Macintosh NERFINISHED ⓘ TRS-80 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playerPerspective | second-person narrative ⓘ |
| publisher | Infocom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherType | independent game publisher ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| sequelTo | Enchanter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| series | Enchanter trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | fantasy world ⓘ |
| supportsTextInput | yes ⓘ |
| supportsTextOutput | yes ⓘ |
| targetPlatformType | home computer ⓘ |
| visualStyle | text-only interface ⓘ |
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: Sorcerer Description of subject: Sorcerer is a 1984 interactive fiction adventure game by Infocom, known for its magic-themed puzzles and text-based exploration in a fantasy world.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.