Virtua Fighter
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Virtua Fighter is a pioneering 3D fighting game series by Sega, renowned for its realistic martial arts, deep mechanics, and major influence on the fighting game genre.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Virtua Fighter canonical | 2 |
| Virtua Fighter 2 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8472745 — 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: Virtua Fighter Context triple: [Sega, notableWork, Virtua Fighter]
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A.
Street Fighter
Street Fighter is a 1994 live-action film adaptation of the popular Capcom fighting video game series, known for its ensemble cast and campy, action-driven portrayal of the game's characters.
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B.
Fatal Fury: King of Fighters
Fatal Fury: King of Fighters is a classic 1991 SNK fighting game that introduced the Fatal Fury series and helped define the early competitive fighting genre on arcade and Neo Geo platforms.
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C.
Final Fight
Final Fight is a classic side-scrolling beat 'em up arcade game by Capcom, renowned for its cooperative gameplay, urban crime setting, and influential impact on the genre.
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D.
Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II is a landmark competitive fighting video game by Capcom that popularized the one-on-one fighting genre and became a global arcade and home console phenomenon in the early 1990s.
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E.
Fighters
Fighters is the abbreviated name of the Frisco Fighters, a professional indoor football team based in Frisco, Texas.
- 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: Virtua Fighter Target entity description: Virtua Fighter is a pioneering 3D fighting game series by Sega, renowned for its realistic martial arts, deep mechanics, and major influence on the fighting game genre.
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A.
Street Fighter
Street Fighter is a 1994 live-action film adaptation of the popular Capcom fighting video game series, known for its ensemble cast and campy, action-driven portrayal of the game's characters.
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B.
Fatal Fury: King of Fighters
Fatal Fury: King of Fighters is a classic 1991 SNK fighting game that introduced the Fatal Fury series and helped define the early competitive fighting genre on arcade and Neo Geo platforms.
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C.
Final Fight
Final Fight is a classic side-scrolling beat 'em up arcade game by Capcom, renowned for its cooperative gameplay, urban crime setting, and influential impact on the genre.
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D.
Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II is a landmark competitive fighting video game by Capcom that popularized the one-on-one fighting genre and became a global arcade and home console phenomenon in the early 1990s.
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E.
Fighters
Fighters is the abbreviated name of the Frisco Fighters, a professional indoor football team based in Frisco, Texas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (76)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fighting game series
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video game series ⓘ |
| awarded | Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association Award for excellence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| creator | Yu Suzuki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | Sega AM2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| engine | Model 1 arcade hardware (original game) ⓘ |
| firstReleaseDate | 1993 ⓘ |
| firstReleaseTitle | Virtua Fighter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gameplayFeature |
frame-precise timing
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ring-out system ⓘ stance-based movement ⓘ three-button control scheme ⓘ |
| genre | 3D fighting game ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Aoi Umenokoji
NERFINISHED
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Brad Burns NERFINISHED ⓘ Eileen NERFINISHED ⓘ El Blaze NERFINISHED ⓘ Goh Hinogami NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacky Bryant NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean Kujo NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeffry McWild NERFINISHED ⓘ Kage-Maru NERFINISHED ⓘ Lau Chan NERFINISHED ⓘ Lei-Fei NERFINISHED ⓘ Lion Rafale NERFINISHED ⓘ Pai Chan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Bryant NERFINISHED ⓘ Shun Di NERFINISHED ⓘ Taka-Arashi NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanessa Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Wolf Hawkfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGameMode |
arcade mode
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online multiplayer ⓘ training mode ⓘ versus mode ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Akira Yuki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedIn | The Art of Video Games exhibition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Dead or Alive
NERFINISHED
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Fighting Vipers NERFINISHED ⓘ Soulcalibur NERFINISHED ⓘ Tekken NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inUniverseElement | J6 criminal organization ⓘ |
| mediaAdaptation |
Virtua Fighter anime television series
NERFINISHED
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Virtua Fighter manga adaptations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first 3D polygon-based fighting games
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deep and technical gameplay mechanics ⓘ influencing the evolution of 3D graphics in video games ⓘ major influence on competitive fighting game design ⓘ realistic martial arts representation ⓘ |
| notableInstallment |
Virtua Fighter 2
NERFINISHED
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Virtua Fighter 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Virtua Fighter 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Virtua Fighter 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platform |
Arcade
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Windows ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
PlayStation 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Sony PlayStation 3 ⓘ
surface form:
PlayStation 3
PlayStation 4 ⓘ PlayStation 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Sega 32X NERFINISHED ⓘ Sega Dreamcast NERFINISHED ⓘ Sega Saturn NERFINISHED ⓘ Xbox 360 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Sega NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Smithsonian American Art Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | World Fighting Tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subseries |
Virtua Fighter Animation
NERFINISHED
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Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series NERFINISHED ⓘ Virtua Fighter Kids NERFINISHED ⓘ Virtua Fighter Remix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorEngine |
Lindbergh arcade hardware (Virtua Fighter 5)
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Model 2 arcade hardware (Virtua Fighter 2) ⓘ Model 3 arcade hardware (Virtua Fighter 3) NERFINISHED ⓘ NAOMI arcade hardware (Virtua Fighter 4) 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: Virtua Fighter Description of subject: Virtua Fighter is a pioneering 3D fighting game series by Sega, renowned for its realistic martial arts, deep mechanics, and major influence on the fighting game genre.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Virtua Fighter 2