TekWar
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TekWar is a science fiction franchise created by William Shatner, best known as a series of novels adapted into television movies and a TV series set in a near-future world plagued by a powerful digital drug.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TekWar canonical | 2 |
| TekWar novel series | 1 |
| TekWar: TekJustice | 1 |
| TekWar: TekLab | 1 |
| TekWar: TekLords | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5757657 — 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: TekWar Context triple: [Torri Higginson, notableWork, TekWar]
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A.
Ballblazer
Ballblazer is a pioneering 1984 split-screen, one-on-one futuristic sports video game developed by Lucasfilm Games, known for its fast-paced first-person action and innovative procedural music.
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B.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
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C.
Blitz
Blitz is the Seattle Seahawks’ official blue and green anthropomorphic bird mascot who entertains fans at games and team events.
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D.
Warfighter’s Edge
Warfighter’s Edge is the official motto of the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command, emphasizing its mission to provide technological and logistical advantages to military personnel in combat.
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E.
Tanker War
The Tanker War was a phase of the Iran–Iraq War during which both sides attacked oil tankers and merchant shipping in the Persian Gulf to disrupt each other’s economic lifelines and pressure international involvement.
- 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: TekWar Target entity description: TekWar is a science fiction franchise created by William Shatner, best known as a series of novels adapted into television movies and a TV series set in a near-future world plagued by a powerful digital drug.
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A.
Ballblazer
Ballblazer is a pioneering 1984 split-screen, one-on-one futuristic sports video game developed by Lucasfilm Games, known for its fast-paced first-person action and innovative procedural music.
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B.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
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C.
Blitz
Blitz is the Seattle Seahawks’ official blue and green anthropomorphic bird mascot who entertains fans at games and team events.
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D.
Warfighter’s Edge
Warfighter’s Edge is the official motto of the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command, emphasizing its mission to provide technological and logistical advantages to military personnel in combat.
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E.
Tanker War
The Tanker War was a phase of the Iran–Iraq War during which both sides attacked oil tankers and merchant shipping in the Persian Gulf to disrupt each other’s economic lifelines and pressure international involvement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction franchise ⓘ |
| basedOn | TekWar (novel series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| creator | William Shatner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1989 ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | TekWar (video game) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Bascom
NERFINISHED
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Beth Kittridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Jake Cardigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sid Gomez NERFINISHED ⓘ Warbride NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
TekWar (TV films)
NERFINISHED
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TekWar (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ TekWar (novel series) NERFINISHED ⓘ TekWorld (comic series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
addiction
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digital drug Tek NERFINISHED ⓘ virtual reality ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Tek Secret
NERFINISHED
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TekKill NERFINISHED ⓘ TekLab NERFINISHED ⓘ TekLords NERFINISHED ⓘ TekMoney NERFINISHED ⓘ TekNet NERFINISHED ⓘ TekPower NERFINISHED ⓘ TekVengeance NERFINISHED ⓘ TekWar (1992 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Atlantis Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Universal Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationMedium |
comic book
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novel ⓘ television film ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| publisher | G. P. Putnam's Sons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace | North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | near future ⓘ |
| televisionFilmSeriesEndDate | 1994 ⓘ |
| televisionFilmSeriesStartDate | 1994 ⓘ |
| televisionNetwork |
CTV
NERFINISHED
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USA Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionSeriesEndDate | 1996 ⓘ |
| televisionSeriesStartDate | 1994 ⓘ |
| theme |
corporate conspiracy
ⓘ
crime investigation ⓘ cyberpunk elements ⓘ |
| videoGamePlatform |
MS-DOS
NERFINISHED
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PC 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: TekWar Description of subject: TekWar is a science fiction franchise created by William Shatner, best known as a series of novels adapted into television movies and a TV series set in a near-future world plagued by a powerful digital drug.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
TekWar: TekLords
this entity surface form:
TekWar: TekLab
this entity surface form:
TekWar: TekJustice
this entity surface form:
TekWar novel series