StarCraft II World Championship Series
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The StarCraft II World Championship Series was Blizzard Entertainment’s premier global professional league and tournament circuit for competitive StarCraft II.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| StarCraft II World Championship Series canonical | 2 |
| StarCraft II World Championship Series Global Finals 2019 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8697648 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: StarCraft II World Championship Series Context triple: [StarCraft II, esport, StarCraft II World Championship Series]
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A.
StarCraft II
StarCraft II is a real-time strategy video game by Blizzard Entertainment, renowned for its competitive multiplayer scene and deep strategic gameplay.
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B.
StarCraft
StarCraft is a landmark real-time strategy video game franchise known for its competitive multiplayer, deep sci-fi lore, and major influence on esports, particularly in South Korea.
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C.
StarCraft: Brood War
StarCraft: Brood War is a critically acclaimed expansion pack to the real-time strategy game StarCraft, adding new campaigns, units, and balance changes that became foundational to professional esports, especially in South Korea.
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D.
StarCraft: Ghost
StarCraft: Ghost is a canceled stealth-action video game set in Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft universe, originally planned to follow the covert operations of a Terran Ghost operative.
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E.
Heroes of the Storm
Heroes of the Storm is a team-based multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game that brings together characters from Blizzard Entertainment’s various franchises into fast-paced, objective-focused matches.
- 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: StarCraft II World Championship Series Target entity description: The StarCraft II World Championship Series was Blizzard Entertainment’s premier global professional league and tournament circuit for competitive StarCraft II.
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A.
StarCraft II
StarCraft II is a real-time strategy video game by Blizzard Entertainment, renowned for its competitive multiplayer scene and deep strategic gameplay.
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B.
StarCraft
StarCraft is a landmark real-time strategy video game franchise known for its competitive multiplayer, deep sci-fi lore, and major influence on esports, particularly in South Korea.
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C.
StarCraft: Brood War
StarCraft: Brood War is a critically acclaimed expansion pack to the real-time strategy game StarCraft, adding new campaigns, units, and balance changes that became foundational to professional esports, especially in South Korea.
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D.
StarCraft: Ghost
StarCraft: Ghost is a canceled stealth-action video game set in Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft universe, originally planned to follow the covert operations of a Terran Ghost operative.
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E.
Heroes of the Storm
Heroes of the Storm is a team-based multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game that brings together characters from Blizzard Entertainment’s various franchises into fast-paced, objective-focused matches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Blizzard Entertainment esports league
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StarCraft II competition ⓘ esports tournament series ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | WCS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| announcedEnd | 2019 ⓘ |
| basedOn | StarCraft II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryScope | global ⓘ |
| developerOfGame | Blizzard Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| featuredGame |
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
NERFINISHED
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StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void NERFINISHED ⓘ StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalsEvent | StarCraft II WCS Global Finals at BlizzCon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalsVenue | BlizzCon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | league and tournament circuit ⓘ |
| gameMode | 1v1 ⓘ |
| genre | real-time strategy esports ⓘ |
| governingBody | Blizzard Entertainment esports division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadFinalsEvent | WCS Global Finals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 2012 ⓘ |
| notableChampion |
Dark
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INnoVation NERFINISHED ⓘ Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Serral NERFINISHED ⓘ Zest NERFINISHED ⓘ herO NERFINISHED ⓘ sOs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| organizer | Blizzard Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platform | PC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOfGame | Blizzard Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose | determine annual StarCraft II world champion ⓘ |
| qualificationMethod |
WCS Circuit events
NERFINISHED
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regional leagues ⓘ regional qualifiers ⓘ |
| region |
China
NERFINISHED
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Europe ⓘ Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ Latin America ⓘ North America ⓘ Oceania ⓘ Rest of World NERFINISHED ⓘ Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy | ESL Pro Tour StarCraft II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reward |
WCS points
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prize money ⓘ |
| sponsor | Blizzard Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| successorCircuitOrganizer |
DreamHack
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ESL 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: StarCraft II World Championship Series Description of subject: The StarCraft II World Championship Series was Blizzard Entertainment’s premier global professional league and tournament circuit for competitive StarCraft II.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
StarCraft II World Championship Series Global Finals 2019