Broken Age
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Broken Age is a crowd-funded, hand-animated point-and-click adventure game directed by Tim Schafer, known for its dual-protagonist narrative and whimsical, story-driven design.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Broken Age canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11249982 — 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: Broken Age Context triple: [Double Fine Productions, notableWork, Broken Age]
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A.
Braid
Braid is a Scottish surname most notably associated with James Braid, a pioneering figure in the development of hypnotism.
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B.
Gone Home
Gone Home is a critically acclaimed first-person exploration video game known for its narrative-driven gameplay and emotional storytelling set within an empty family house.
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C.
Thimbleweed Park
Thimbleweed Park is a retro-styled point-and-click adventure game created by Maniac Mansion designers Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, featuring a darkly comedic mystery set in a quirky small town.
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D.
Sea of Stories
The Sea of Stories is a vast, magical ocean of interwoven tales and narrative streams in Salman Rushdie’s children’s novel "Haroun and the Sea of Stories."
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E.
Fear Is the Key
Fear Is the Key is a 1961 thriller novel by Alistair MacLean that follows a vengeful protagonist entangled in a high-stakes plot involving murder, hijacking, and sunken treasure.
- 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: Broken Age Target entity description: Broken Age is a crowd-funded, hand-animated point-and-click adventure game directed by Tim Schafer, known for its dual-protagonist narrative and whimsical, story-driven design.
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A.
Braid
Braid is a Scottish surname most notably associated with James Braid, a pioneering figure in the development of hypnotism.
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B.
Gone Home
Gone Home is a critically acclaimed first-person exploration video game known for its narrative-driven gameplay and emotional storytelling set within an empty family house.
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C.
Thimbleweed Park
Thimbleweed Park is a retro-styled point-and-click adventure game created by Maniac Mansion designers Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, featuring a darkly comedic mystery set in a quirky small town.
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D.
Sea of Stories
The Sea of Stories is a vast, magical ocean of interwoven tales and narrative streams in Salman Rushdie’s children’s novel "Haroun and the Sea of Stories."
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E.
Fear Is the Key
Fear Is the Key is a 1961 thriller novel by Alistair MacLean that follows a vengeful protagonist entangled in a high-stakes plot involving murder, hijacking, and sunken treasure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
point-and-click adventure game
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video game ⓘ |
| award | Excellence in Visual Art nomination at the Independent Games Festival ⓘ |
| campaignStartDate | 2012-02-08 ⓘ |
| composer | Peter McConnell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| crowdfundingPlatform | Kickstarter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designer | Tim Schafer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | Double Fine Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Tim Schafer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| engine | Moai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feature |
dual-protagonist narrative
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hand-animated graphics ⓘ point-and-click interface ⓘ story-driven design ⓘ |
| fullReleaseYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| fundingMethod | crowdfunding ⓘ |
| gameMode | single-player ⓘ |
| genre | adventure game ⓘ |
| hasCutscenes | true ⓘ |
| hasPuzzleSolving | true ⓘ |
| inputMethod |
mouse
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touchscreen ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | reviving interest in classic adventure games via crowdfunding ⓘ |
| numberOfActs | 2 ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Double Fine Adventure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platform |
Android
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Linux ⓘ Windows ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
PlayStation 4 ⓘ PlayStation Vita NERFINISHED ⓘ Xbox One NERFINISHED ⓘ iOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| protagonist |
Shay Volta
NERFINISHED
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Vella Tartine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Double Fine Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDatePart1 | 2014-01-28 ⓘ |
| releaseDatePart2 | 2015-04-28 ⓘ |
| setting | fantasy world ⓘ |
| voiceActor |
Elijah Wood
NERFINISHED
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Jack Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Jennifer Hale NERFINISHED ⓘ Masasa Moyo NERFINISHED ⓘ Wil Wheaton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Tim Schafer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Broken Age Description of subject: Broken Age is a crowd-funded, hand-animated point-and-click adventure game directed by Tim Schafer, known for its dual-protagonist narrative and whimsical, story-driven design.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.