Turbine, Inc.
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Turbine, Inc. was an American video game developer best known for creating and running massively multiplayer online role-playing games such as Asheron's Call and Dungeons & Dragons Online.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Turbine, Inc. canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11048530 — 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: Turbine, Inc. Context triple: [The Lord of the Rings Online, developer, Turbine, Inc.]
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A.
Solar Turbines Incorporated
Solar Turbines Incorporated is an industrial manufacturer specializing in gas turbine engines and related energy solutions for power generation, oil and gas, and other heavy industries.
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B.
Reaction Motors Inc.
Reaction Motors Inc. was an early American rocket engine company known for developing pioneering liquid-fuel rocket motors used in experimental aircraft and spaceflight research programs in the mid-20th century.
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C.
The Tornante Company
The Tornante Company is a private investment firm founded by former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, known for its holdings in media, entertainment, and sports, including ownership of Portsmouth F.C.
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D.
Aeolian Company
Aeolian Company was a prominent American musical instrument manufacturer best known for producing player pianos, organs, and other self-playing instruments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Hamilton Sundstrand
Hamilton Sundstrand was a major aerospace and industrial systems manufacturer known for producing aircraft systems, space and defense products, and industrial technologies before being integrated into Collins Aerospace.
- 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: Turbine, Inc. Target entity description: Turbine, Inc. was an American video game developer best known for creating and running massively multiplayer online role-playing games such as Asheron's Call and Dungeons & Dragons Online.
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A.
Solar Turbines Incorporated
Solar Turbines Incorporated is an industrial manufacturer specializing in gas turbine engines and related energy solutions for power generation, oil and gas, and other heavy industries.
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B.
Reaction Motors Inc.
Reaction Motors Inc. was an early American rocket engine company known for developing pioneering liquid-fuel rocket motors used in experimental aircraft and spaceflight research programs in the mid-20th century.
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C.
The Tornante Company
The Tornante Company is a private investment firm founded by former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, known for its holdings in media, entertainment, and sports, including ownership of Portsmouth F.C.
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D.
Aeolian Company
Aeolian Company was a prominent American musical instrument manufacturer best known for producing player pianos, organs, and other self-playing instruments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Hamilton Sundstrand
Hamilton Sundstrand was a major aerospace and industrial systems manufacturer known for producing aircraft systems, space and defense products, and industrial technologies before being integrated into Collins Aerospace.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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video game developer ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Warner Bros. Home Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| basedIn | Westwood, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Standing Stone Games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developedForPublisher |
Microsoft
NERFINISHED
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developedGame |
Asheron's Call
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Asheron's Call 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Dungeons & Dragons Online NERFINISHED ⓘ Infinite Crisis NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lord of the Rings Online NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focus |
online games
ⓘ
subscription-based games ⓘ |
| formerName | CyberSpace, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedAs | CyberSpace, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gameEngineUser | Turbine Engine ⓘ |
| gameGenreSpecialty | MMORPG ⓘ |
| industry |
massively multiplayer online role-playing games
ⓘ
video games ⓘ |
| knownFor | creating and running MMORPGs ⓘ |
| laterBusinessModel | free-to-play with microtransactions ⓘ |
| licenseUsed |
Dungeons & Dragons
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Lord of the Rings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableGameType | licensed IP MMORPGs ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Asheron's Call
NERFINISHED
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Asheron's Call 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Dungeons & Dragons Online NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lord of the Rings Online NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| onlineServiceType | persistent world games ⓘ |
| operatedGame |
Asheron's Call
GENERATED
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Dungeons & Dragons Online GENERATED ⓘ The Lord of the Rings Online GENERATED ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platformDevelopedFor | Microsoft Windows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Europe
ⓘ
North America ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successorCompany | Standing Stone Games 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: Turbine, Inc. Description of subject: Turbine, Inc. was an American video game developer best known for creating and running massively multiplayer online role-playing games such as Asheron's Call and Dungeons & Dragons Online.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.