Infogrames
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Infogrames is a French video game company best known for its role as a major publisher and for later rebranding under the Atari name.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Infogrames canonical | 2 |
| Infogrames, Inc. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11250895 — 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: Infogrames Context triple: [GT Interactive, acquiredBy, Infogrames]
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Konami
Konami is a major Japanese entertainment company best known for developing and publishing popular video game franchises such as Metal Gear, Castlevania, and Silent Hill.
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Vivendi Games
Vivendi Games was a French video game publisher and holding company that owned studios like Blizzard Entertainment before merging with Activision to form Activision Blizzard.
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Jaleco
Jaleco was a Japanese video game company known for developing and publishing arcade and home console titles from the 1980s through the early 2000s.
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D.
Midway Games
Midway Games was an American video game company best known for publishing and developing popular arcade and console titles such as the Mortal Kombat series.
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E.
Sega Sammy Holdings
Sega Sammy Holdings is a Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for owning Sega and operating businesses in video games, arcade machines, and pachinko/pachislot machines.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Infogrames Target entity description: Infogrames is a French video game company best known for its role as a major publisher and for later rebranding under the Atari name.
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A.
Konami
Konami is a major Japanese entertainment company best known for developing and publishing popular video game franchises such as Metal Gear, Castlevania, and Silent Hill.
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B.
Vivendi Games
Vivendi Games was a French video game publisher and holding company that owned studios like Blizzard Entertainment before merging with Activision to form Activision Blizzard.
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C.
Jaleco
Jaleco was a Japanese video game company known for developing and publishing arcade and home console titles from the 1980s through the early 2000s.
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D.
Midway Games
Midway Games was an American video game company best known for publishing and developing popular arcade and console titles such as the Mortal Kombat series.
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E.
Sega Sammy Holdings
Sega Sammy Holdings is a Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for owning Sega and operating businesses in video games, arcade machines, and pachinko/pachislot machines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business enterprise
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video game company ⓘ |
| acquired |
Accolade
NERFINISHED
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Atari brand NERFINISHED ⓘ GT Interactive NERFINISHED ⓘ Gremlin Interactive NERFINISHED ⓘ Hasbro Interactive NERFINISHED ⓘ Ocean Software NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ |
| brandUsed | Atari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Atari SA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Bruno Bonnell
NERFINISHED
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Christophe Sapet NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Schmider NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreFocus |
action games
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adventure games ⓘ racing games ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Atari Interactive, Inc.
NERFINISHED
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Atari, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ Infogrames Entertainment SA NERFINISHED ⓘ Infogrames North America NERFINISHED ⓘ Infogrames UK NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
France
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Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1983 ⓘ |
| industry |
software publishing
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video games ⓘ |
| languageOfName | French ⓘ |
| legalForm | Société anonyme ⓘ |
| notableFor |
acquisition of Atari brand
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video game publishing ⓘ |
| notableRole | major European video game publisher ⓘ |
| productType |
computer games
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console games ⓘ video games ⓘ |
| publisherOf |
Alone in the Dark series
NERFINISHED
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Driver series NERFINISHED ⓘ Enter the Matrix NERFINISHED ⓘ Neverwinter Nights NERFINISHED ⓘ RollerCoaster Tycoon series NERFINISHED ⓘ Test Drive series NERFINISHED ⓘ Unreal Tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rebrandedAs | Atari SA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rebrandingPeriod | early 2000s ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | Euronext Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedTrademark | Atari 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: Infogrames Description of subject: Infogrames is a French video game company best known for its role as a major publisher and for later rebranding under the Atari name.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Infogrames, Inc.