Daikatana
E915593
Daikatana is a 2000 first-person shooter video game, infamous for its troubled development, aggressive marketing, and poor critical reception despite being led by Doom co-creator John Romero.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Daikatana canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11290361 — 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: Daikatana Context triple: [John Romero, notableWork, Daikatana]
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A.
Taikon
Taikon is a Romani Swedish family name most prominently associated with activist and silversmith Rosa Taikon and her relatives.
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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.
Daijosai
Daijosai is a grand Shinto ritual performed once in a Japanese emperor’s reign to celebrate his enthronement and offer newly harvested rice to the deities.
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D.
Dai Tōa Kyōeiken
Dai Tōa Kyōeiken was Imperial Japan’s World War II-era political and economic concept for a Japan-led bloc of Asian nations, promoted as regional cooperation but effectively serving as a framework for Japanese expansion and domination.
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E.
Tokusuke
Tokusuke is the given name of Nakae Chōmin, a prominent Japanese political theorist, journalist, and early advocate of liberal democracy in the Meiji era.
- 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: Daikatana Target entity description: Daikatana is a 2000 first-person shooter video game, infamous for its troubled development, aggressive marketing, and poor critical reception despite being led by Doom co-creator John Romero.
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A.
Taikon
Taikon is a Romani Swedish family name most prominently associated with activist and silversmith Rosa Taikon and her relatives.
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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.
Daijosai
Daijosai is a grand Shinto ritual performed once in a Japanese emperor’s reign to celebrate his enthronement and offer newly harvested rice to the deities.
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D.
Dai Tōa Kyōeiken
Dai Tōa Kyōeiken was Imperial Japan’s World War II-era political and economic concept for a Japan-led bloc of Asian nations, promoted as regional cooperation but effectively serving as a framework for Japanese expansion and domination.
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E.
Tokusuke
Tokusuke is the given name of Nakae Chōmin, a prominent Japanese political theorist, journalist, and early advocate of liberal democracy in the Meiji era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
first-person shooter video game
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video game ⓘ |
| artStyle | 3D graphics ⓘ |
| associatedCompany | Ion Storm Dallas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | John Romero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commercialPerformance | commercial failure ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | generally negative ⓘ |
| designer | John Romero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | Ion Storm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developmentIssue |
engine switch during development
ⓘ
missed release deadlines ⓘ staff turnover ⓘ |
| developmentStart | late 1990s ⓘ |
| developmentTime | prolonged ⓘ |
| distribution | retail ⓘ |
| engine | Quake II engine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | first-person shooter ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
AI sidekicks
ⓘ
time travel ⓘ |
| hasMultiplayerMode |
cooperative
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deathmatch ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist | Hiro Miyamoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWeapon | Daikatana sword NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadDesigner | John Romero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketingSlogan | John Romero's about to make you his bitch ⓘ |
| metacriticReception | mixed to negative reviews ⓘ |
| mode |
multiplayer
ⓘ
single-player ⓘ |
| notableFor |
aggressive marketing campaign
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poor critical reception ⓘ troubled development ⓘ |
| notableIn | video game development history ⓘ |
| platform |
Game Boy Color
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Windows ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
Nintendo 64 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Eidos Interactive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherRegion |
Europe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2000-05-23 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| setting |
Japan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ancient Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ future ⓘ futuristic San Francisco ⓘ medieval Norway ⓘ |
| soundtrackComposer | Will Loconto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesModifiedEngine | Quake II engine 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: Daikatana Description of subject: Daikatana is a 2000 first-person shooter video game, infamous for its troubled development, aggressive marketing, and poor critical reception despite being led by Doom co-creator John Romero.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.