Mined-Out
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Mined-Out is an early 1983 ZX Spectrum puzzle video game by Ian Andrew that pioneered the grid-based mine-clearing gameplay later popularized by Minesweeper.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mined-Out canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8286200 — 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.
Target entity: Mined-Out Context triple: [Minesweeper, inspiredBy, Mined-Out]
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A.
Miners
Miners is the nickname for the University of Texas at El Paso’s athletic teams, most prominently its NCAA Division I football program.
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Minning
Minning was the personal name of the Daoguang Emperor, a Qing dynasty ruler of China in the early to mid-19th century.
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C.
Dry Diggings
Dry Diggings was the early Gold Rush–era mining camp that later became the city of Placerville, California.
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Miner
Miner is a surname of English origin historically associated with the occupation of mining.
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E.
Dismal Nitch
Dismal Nitch is a historic shoreline site along the Columbia River in Washington state, known as a key encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition during their journey to the Pacific.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Mined-Out Target entity description: Mined-Out is an early 1983 ZX Spectrum puzzle video game by Ian Andrew that pioneered the grid-based mine-clearing gameplay later popularized by Minesweeper.
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A.
Miners
Miners is the nickname for the University of Texas at El Paso’s athletic teams, most prominently its NCAA Division I football program.
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B.
Minning
Minning was the personal name of the Daoguang Emperor, a Qing dynasty ruler of China in the early to mid-19th century.
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C.
Dry Diggings
Dry Diggings was the early Gold Rush–era mining camp that later became the city of Placerville, California.
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D.
Miner
Miner is a surname of English origin historically associated with the occupation of mining.
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E.
Dismal Nitch
Dismal Nitch is a historic shoreline site along the Columbia River in Washington state, known as a key encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition during their journey to the Pacific.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ZX Spectrum game
ⓘ
video game ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| designer | Ian Andrew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | Ian Andrew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | cassette tape ⓘ |
| era | early 1980s home computer games ⓘ |
| gameplayMechanic | grid-based mine-clearing ⓘ |
| genre |
puzzle
ⓘ
strategy ⓘ |
| hasGrid | yes ⓘ |
| hasHazard | mines ⓘ |
| influenced | Minesweeper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inputMethod | keyboard ⓘ |
| mediaType | home computer game ⓘ |
| notableFor | pioneering grid-based mine-clearing gameplay ⓘ |
| numberOfPlayers | single-player ⓘ |
| objective | navigate across a minefield without detonating mines ⓘ |
| perspective | top-down ⓘ |
| platform | ZX Spectrum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platformExclusiveTo | ZX Spectrum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programmedIn | Z80 assembly (ZX Spectrum) ⓘ |
| publisher | Quicksilva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionRelease | Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1983 ⓘ |
| setting | abstract minefield grid ⓘ |
| targetHardware | 48K ZX Spectrum ⓘ |
| usesHiddenInformation | hidden mines ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Mined-Out Description of subject: Mined-Out is an early 1983 ZX Spectrum puzzle video game by Ian Andrew that pioneered the grid-based mine-clearing gameplay later popularized by Minesweeper.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.