Defense of the Ancients
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Defense of the Ancients is a pioneering multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) mod that popularized team-based hero combat and laid the groundwork for games like Dota 2 and League of Legends.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Defense of the Ancients canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11364638 — 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: Defense of the Ancients Context triple: [Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, influenced, Defense of the Ancients]
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A.
Dota
Dota is a rural canton in Costa Rica’s San José Province known for its mountainous landscapes, coffee production, and ecotourism.
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B.
League of Legends
League of Legends is a popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed by Riot Games, known for its competitive esports scene and strategic team-based gameplay.
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C.
Moonton
Moonton is a Chinese video game developer best known for creating the popular mobile multiplayer online battle arena game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.
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D.
Smite
Smite is a third-person multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game developed by Hi-Rez Studios in which players control mythological gods and deities in team-based combat.
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E.
StarCraft II World Championship Series
The StarCraft II World Championship Series was Blizzard Entertainment’s premier global professional league and tournament circuit for competitive StarCraft II.
- 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: Defense of the Ancients Target entity description: Defense of the Ancients is a pioneering multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) mod that popularized team-based hero combat and laid the groundwork for games like Dota 2 and League of Legends.
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A.
Dota
Dota is a rural canton in Costa Rica’s San José Province known for its mountainous landscapes, coffee production, and ecotourism.
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B.
League of Legends
League of Legends is a popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed by Riot Games, known for its competitive esports scene and strategic team-based gameplay.
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C.
Moonton
Moonton is a Chinese video game developer best known for creating the popular mobile multiplayer online battle arena game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.
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D.
Smite
Smite is a third-person multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game developed by Hi-Rez Studios in which players control mythological gods and deities in team-based combat.
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E.
StarCraft II World Championship Series
The StarCraft II World Championship Series was Blizzard Entertainment’s premier global professional league and tournament circuit for competitive StarCraft II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
custom map
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multiplayer online battle arena game ⓘ video game mod ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| communityPlatform | Battle.net NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| communityStatus | community-developed project ⓘ |
| controlScheme | mouse and keyboard ⓘ |
| designer |
Eul
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guinsoo NERFINISHED ⓘ IceFrog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer |
Eul
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guinsoo NERFINISHED ⓘ IceFrog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionMethod |
Battle.net custom games
ⓘ
Warcraft III custom map hosting sites ⓘ |
| firstReleaseYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| gameEngine | Warcraft III World Editor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | MOBA ⓘ |
| influenced |
Dota 2
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heroes of Newerth NERFINISHED ⓘ Heroes of the Storm NERFINISHED ⓘ League of Legends NERFINISHED ⓘ Smite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | MOBA ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legacy | pioneered modern MOBA design ⓘ |
| mapPerspective | top-down ⓘ |
| matchType | team-based competitive ⓘ |
| modOf | Warcraft III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
asymmetric factions
ⓘ
creep waves ⓘ experience and gold progression ⓘ hero-based team combat ⓘ item shop system ⓘ three-lane map layout ⓘ |
| notableTournament |
ESWC
NERFINISHED
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World Cyber Games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableVersion | DotA Allstars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| objective | destroy enemy Ancient ⓘ |
| platform |
Windows
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surface form:
Microsoft Windows
PC ⓘ |
| playersPerTeam | 5 ⓘ |
| primaryGameMode | multiplayer ⓘ |
| publisher | self-published ⓘ |
| setting | fantasy ⓘ |
| teamName |
Scourge
NERFINISHED
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Sentinel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamsPerMatch | 2 ⓘ |
| usesGameEngineOf | Warcraft III 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: Defense of the Ancients Description of subject: Defense of the Ancients is a pioneering multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) mod that popularized team-based hero combat and laid the groundwork for games like Dota 2 and League of Legends.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.