Working Designs
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Working Designs was an American video game publisher best known for its high-quality, humor-infused localizations of Japanese role-playing games in the 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Working Designs canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8435942 — 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: Working Designs Context triple: [Lunar: The Silver Star, localizationBy, Working Designs]
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A.
Working
"Working" is a musical by Stephen Schwartz that adapts Studs Terkel’s book of interviews into a series of vignettes exploring the lives and aspirations of everyday American workers.
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B.
Working Drafts
Working Drafts are early-stage, publicly released specifications from the W3C CSS Working Group that outline proposed features and changes to Cascading Style Sheets for review and feedback.
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C.
Designit
Designit is a global strategic design and innovation consultancy known for helping organizations create user-centered products, services, and experiences.
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D.
Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration was a New Deal agency that provided millions of jobs during the Great Depression by funding public works and arts projects across the United States.
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E.
Afwerki
Afwerki is the surname of Isaias Afwerki, the long-serving president and founding leader of Eritrea.
- 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: Working Designs Target entity description: Working Designs was an American video game publisher best known for its high-quality, humor-infused localizations of Japanese role-playing games in the 1990s.
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A.
Working
"Working" is a musical by Stephen Schwartz that adapts Studs Terkel’s book of interviews into a series of vignettes exploring the lives and aspirations of everyday American workers.
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B.
Working Drafts
Working Drafts are early-stage, publicly released specifications from the W3C CSS Working Group that outline proposed features and changes to Cascading Style Sheets for review and feedback.
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C.
Designit
Designit is a global strategic design and innovation consultancy known for helping organizations create user-centered products, services, and experiences.
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D.
Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration was a New Deal agency that provided millions of jobs during the Great Depression by funding public works and arts projects across the United States.
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E.
Afwerki
Afwerki is the surname of Isaias Afwerki, the long-serving president and founding leader of Eritrea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct company
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video game publisher ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dissolvedInto | Gaijinworks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focus |
Japanese role-playing games
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niche Japanese titles ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Victor Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFanPerception |
controversial difficulty adjustments in localized games
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high-quality localization standards ⓘ |
| hasReputation | cult following among JRPG fans ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| industry | video games ⓘ |
| keyPerson | Victor Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfLocalization | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collector-oriented bonus items in releases
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humor-infused English localizations ⓘ localization of Japanese role-playing games ⓘ premium physical packaging of games ⓘ |
| operatedInMarket | North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publishedGame |
Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean
NERFINISHED
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Alundra NERFINISHED ⓘ Alundra 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Arc the Lad Collection NERFINISHED ⓘ Dragon Force NERFINISHED ⓘ Growlanser Generations NERFINISHED ⓘ Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete NERFINISHED ⓘ Lunar: Eternal Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete NERFINISHED ⓘ Lunar: The Silver Star NERFINISHED ⓘ Magic Knight Rayearth NERFINISHED ⓘ Popful Mail NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanguard Bandits NERFINISHED ⓘ Vay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publishedOnPlatform |
PlayStation
NERFINISHED
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Sega CD NERFINISHED ⓘ Sega Saturn NERFINISHED ⓘ TurboGrafx-CD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| specialization | localization of Japanese video games ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
added gameplay rebalancing in localizations
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extensive script rewrites ⓘ inclusion of contemporary pop-culture references ⓘ liberal translation approach ⓘ |
| successor | Gaijinworks 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: Working Designs Description of subject: Working Designs was an American video game publisher best known for its high-quality, humor-infused localizations of Japanese role-playing games in the 1990s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.