Shinobi
E739782
Shinobi is a classic side-scrolling action game featuring a ninja protagonist, known for its challenging gameplay and influential role in the arcade and home console era.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ninja Gaiden video game series | 1 |
| Shinobi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8521148 — 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: Shinobi Context triple: [Sega Master System, notableGame, Shinobi]
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A.
Ninja
Ninja is a fast, small, and focused build system designed to efficiently handle incremental builds in large software projects.
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B.
Katano
Katano is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known for its residential suburbs and proximity to the Osaka metropolitan area.
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C.
Fusumi no Okami
Fusumi no Okami is a Shinto deity venerated at Kumano Nachi Taisha, associated with the sacred natural and spiritual landscape of the Kumano region in Japan.
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D.
Inari Ōkami
Inari Ōkami is a major Shinto kami associated primarily with rice, agriculture, prosperity, and fox spirits, widely revered at thousands of shrines across Japan.
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E.
Shadow Kin
Shadow Kin are a race of fiery, shadowy alien warriors from the Doctor Who universe, known for their brutal combat and attempts to invade Earth.
- 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: Shinobi Target entity description: Shinobi is a classic side-scrolling action game featuring a ninja protagonist, known for its challenging gameplay and influential role in the arcade and home console era.
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A.
Ninja
Ninja is a fast, small, and focused build system designed to efficiently handle incremental builds in large software projects.
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B.
Katano
Katano is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known for its residential suburbs and proximity to the Osaka metropolitan area.
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C.
Fusumi no Okami
Fusumi no Okami is a Shinto deity venerated at Kumano Nachi Taisha, associated with the sacred natural and spiritual landscape of the Kumano region in Japan.
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D.
Inari Ōkami
Inari Ōkami is a major Shinto kami associated primarily with rice, agriculture, prosperity, and fox spirits, widely revered at thousands of shrines across Japan.
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E.
Shadow Kin
Shadow Kin are a race of fiery, shadowy alien warriors from the Doctor Who universe, known for their brutal combat and attempts to invade Earth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
side-scrolling action game
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video game ⓘ |
| audioFeature | chiptune soundtrack ⓘ |
| controlScheme |
action buttons
ⓘ
joystick ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| developer | Sega NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| difficulty | high ⓘ |
| distributionFormat |
arcade cabinet
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cartridge ⓘ |
| enemyType | criminal organization ⓘ |
| franchise | Shinobi series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gameplayFeature |
boss battles
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melee attacks ⓘ rescuing hostages ⓘ shuriken throwing ⓘ |
| genre |
action game
ⓘ
platform game ⓘ |
| hasSequel |
Shadow Dancer
NERFINISHED
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Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master NERFINISHED ⓘ The Revenge of Shinobi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | later ninja-themed action games ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | ninja ⓘ |
| notableFor |
challenging gameplay
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influential role in arcade era ⓘ influential role in home console era ⓘ |
| perspective | side-scrolling ⓘ |
| platform |
Amiga
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Amstrad CPC NERFINISHED ⓘ Atari ST NERFINISHED ⓘ Commodore 64 NERFINISHED ⓘ MS-DOS NERFINISHED ⓘ Nintendo Entertainment System NERFINISHED ⓘ PC Engine NERFINISHED ⓘ Sega Master System NERFINISHED ⓘ TurboGrafx-16 NERFINISHED ⓘ ZX Spectrum NERFINISHED ⓘ arcade ⓘ |
| protagonist | Joe Musashi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Sega NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| setting | modern urban environments ⓘ |
| theme |
martial arts
ⓘ
ninja ⓘ |
| visualStyle | 2D sprite-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: Shinobi Description of subject: Shinobi is a classic side-scrolling action game featuring a ninja protagonist, known for its challenging gameplay and influential role in the arcade and home console era.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tomonobu Itagaki
this entity surface form:
Ninja Gaiden video game series