Shiny Entertainment
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Shiny Entertainment was an American video game developer best known for its innovative and humorous action titles in the 1990s, particularly the Earthworm Jim series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shiny Entertainment canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8413226 — 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: Shiny Entertainment Context triple: [Earthworm Jim, developer, Shiny Entertainment]
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A.
Chameleon Entertainment
Chameleon Entertainment is a music record label known for producing and distributing recordings for various artists across genres.
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B.
Shiny Button Productions
Shiny Button Productions is a British television production company known for creating comedy and entertainment programming.
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C.
Centropolis Entertainment
Centropolis Entertainment is a film production company co-founded by director Roland Emmerich, best known for producing large-scale science fiction and disaster movies.
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D.
Kaleidoscope Entertainment
Kaleidoscope Entertainment is an Indian film production company known for backing notable Hindi cinema projects, including historical and socially themed films.
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E.
Stellar Ent.
Stellar Ent. is a music record label known for releasing the album *The 18th Day*.
- 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: Shiny Entertainment Target entity description: Shiny Entertainment was an American video game developer best known for its innovative and humorous action titles in the 1990s, particularly the Earthworm Jim series.
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A.
Chameleon Entertainment
Chameleon Entertainment is a music record label known for producing and distributing recordings for various artists across genres.
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B.
Shiny Button Productions
Shiny Button Productions is a British television production company known for creating comedy and entertainment programming.
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C.
Centropolis Entertainment
Centropolis Entertainment is a film production company co-founded by director Roland Emmerich, best known for producing large-scale science fiction and disaster movies.
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D.
Kaleidoscope Entertainment
Kaleidoscope Entertainment is an Indian film production company known for backing notable Hindi cinema projects, including historical and socially themed films.
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E.
Stellar Ent.
Stellar Ent. is a music record label known for releasing the album *The 18th Day*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | video game developer ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Atari, Inc.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Foundation 9 Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ Infogrames NERFINISHED ⓘ Interplay Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| basedIn | Orange County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ceasedToExistAsBrand | 2007 ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
The Wachowskis
NERFINISHED
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| developed |
Earthworm Jim
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Earthworm Jim 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Enter the Matrix NERFINISHED ⓘ MDK NERFINISHED ⓘ MDK 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Messiah NERFINISHED ⓘ Sacrifice NERFINISHED ⓘ The Matrix: Path of Neo NERFINISHED ⓘ Wild 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eraOfProminence | mid-1990s ⓘ |
| foundedBy | David Perry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedInYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| genreFocus | action games ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Laguna Beach, California NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| industry | video games ⓘ |
| keyPerson | David Perry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cartoon-style animation
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character-driven action games ⓘ |
| mergedInto | Double Helix Games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Earthworm Jim series
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
humorous tone ⓘ innovative gameplay ⓘ |
| notableFranchise | Earthworm Jim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Atari, Inc.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Foundation 9 Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ Infogrames NERFINISHED ⓘ Interplay Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platformsDevelopedFor |
Dreamcast
NERFINISHED
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PC ⓘ PlayStation NERFINISHED ⓘ Sega Genesis NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Nintendo Entertainment System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
experimental game design
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humorous action titles ⓘ |
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: Shiny Entertainment Description of subject: Shiny Entertainment was an American video game developer best known for its innovative and humorous action titles in the 1990s, particularly the Earthworm Jim series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.