Midway
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Midway was a prominent American video game developer and publisher best known for creating influential arcade titles such as the Mortal Kombat series and NBA Jam.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Midway canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8412942 — 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)
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Target entity: Midway Context triple: [NBA Jam, developer, Midway]
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Midway
Midway is a suburban village in South Derbyshire, England, situated between Swadlincote and Burton upon Trent.
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B.
Midway
Midway is a small town located in Bullock County in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Alabama.
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C.
Midway
Midway is a small unincorporated community located in Chaves County in southeastern New Mexico, United States.
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American war drama film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii during World War II, blending historical events with a fictional love story.
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a natural deep-water naval base and lagoon on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, best known as the site of the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack that led the United States to enter World War II.
- 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: Midway Target entity description: Midway was a prominent American video game developer and publisher best known for creating influential arcade titles such as the Mortal Kombat series and NBA Jam.
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A.
Midway
Midway is a small unincorporated community located in Chaves County in southeastern New Mexico, United States.
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B.
Midway
Midway is a suburban village in South Derbyshire, England, situated between Swadlincote and Burton upon Trent.
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C.
Midway
Midway is a small town located in Bullock County in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Alabama.
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D.
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American war drama film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii during World War II, blending historical events with a fictional love story.
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E.
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a natural deep-water naval base and lagoon on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, best known as the site of the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack that led the United States to enter World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
video game company
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video game publisher ⓘ |
| basedOn | Midway Manufacturing Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brandAssociatedWith | Midway Games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| culturalImpact |
helped popularize over-the-top arcade sports games
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helped popularize violent fighting games in arcades ⓘ |
| distributionChannel |
PC
NERFINISHED
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arcade cabinets ⓘ home video game consoles ⓘ |
| gameDesignStyle |
fast-paced arcade gameplay
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high-score oriented design ⓘ multiplayer-focused experiences ⓘ |
| genreSpecialty | arcade games ⓘ |
| industry | video games ⓘ |
| knownFor |
digitized-graphics arcade titles
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sports arcade games ⓘ violent fighting games ⓘ |
| notableFranchise |
Cruis'n
NERFINISHED
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Mortal Kombat NERFINISHED ⓘ NBA Jam NERFINISHED ⓘ NFL Blitz NERFINISHED ⓘ Rampage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableGameType |
fighting game
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racing game ⓘ sports game ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cruis'n USA
NERFINISHED
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Cruis'n World NERFINISHED ⓘ Mortal Kombat NERFINISHED ⓘ Mortal Kombat 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Mortal Kombat II NERFINISHED ⓘ NBA Jam NERFINISHED ⓘ NFL Blitz NERFINISHED ⓘ Rampage NERFINISHED ⓘ Spy Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platformFocus |
arcade
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home consoles ⓘ |
| region | North America ⓘ |
| roleInMortalKombat |
original developer
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original publisher ⓘ |
| roleInNBAJam |
original developer
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original publisher ⓘ |
| successor | Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Midway Description of subject: Midway was a prominent American video game developer and publisher best known for creating influential arcade titles such as the Mortal Kombat series and NBA Jam.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.