Relentless Logic
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Relentless Logic is an early text-based puzzle game for DOS that uses logical deduction to locate hidden mines, serving as a conceptual predecessor to Microsoft’s Minesweeper.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Relentless Logic canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8286201 — 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: Relentless Logic Context triple: [Minesweeper, inspiredBy, Relentless Logic]
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A.
Beyond Reason
"Beyond Reason" is a memoir by Margaret Trudeau in which she recounts her life as the wife of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and her personal struggles with mental health and public scrutiny.
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B.
Escape from Reason
Escape from Reason is a Christian philosophical work by Francis Schaeffer that critiques modern secular thought and its departure from biblical truth.
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C.
Engines of Logic
Engines of Logic is a book by mathematician and computer scientist Martin Davis that explores the historical development of mathematical logic and its foundational role in the creation of modern computers.
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D.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
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E.
"Logik"
"Logik" is a philosophical work by German neo-Kantian thinker Bruno Bauch that explores the foundations and principles of logic.
- 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: Relentless Logic Target entity description: Relentless Logic is an early text-based puzzle game for DOS that uses logical deduction to locate hidden mines, serving as a conceptual predecessor to Microsoft’s Minesweeper.
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A.
Beyond Reason
"Beyond Reason" is a memoir by Margaret Trudeau in which she recounts her life as the wife of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and her personal struggles with mental health and public scrutiny.
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B.
Escape from Reason
Escape from Reason is a Christian philosophical work by Francis Schaeffer that critiques modern secular thought and its departure from biblical truth.
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C.
Engines of Logic
Engines of Logic is a book by mathematician and computer scientist Martin Davis that explores the historical development of mathematical logic and its foundational role in the creation of modern computers.
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D.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
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E.
"Logik"
"Logik" is a philosophical work by German neo-Kantian thinker Bruno Bauch that explores the foundations and principles of logic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
logic game
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video game ⓘ |
| category | single-player game ⓘ |
| displayMode | text ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | PC software ⓘ |
| gameplayFeature | logical deduction to locate hidden mines ⓘ |
| gameplayMechanic |
grid-based reasoning
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mine detection ⓘ |
| genre |
logic
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puzzle ⓘ |
| hasHiddenInformation | mines ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | early example of minesweeper-style logic puzzle ⓘ |
| influenced | Microsoft Minesweeper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inputMethod | text-based ⓘ |
| inspiredGames | later minesweeper-style games ⓘ |
| interfaceStyle | command-line style ⓘ |
| objective |
avoid detonating mines
ⓘ
locate all mines ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | MS-DOS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platform | DOS ⓘ |
| puzzleType | deductive reasoning ⓘ |
| relationToMicrosoftMinesweeper | conceptual predecessor ⓘ |
| releasePeriod | early DOS era ⓘ |
| supportsSinglePlayer | true ⓘ |
| targetHardware | IBM PC compatible NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesClues | logical clues about adjacent mines ⓘ |
| visualStyle | character-based graphics ⓘ |
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: Relentless Logic Description of subject: Relentless Logic is an early text-based puzzle game for DOS that uses logical deduction to locate hidden mines, serving as a conceptual predecessor to Microsoft’s Minesweeper.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.