Gaikai
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Gaikai was a pioneering cloud gaming service that streamed high-end video games over the internet, later acquired by Sony to help power its PlayStation streaming offerings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gaikai canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11895641 — 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: Gaikai Context triple: [PlayStation Now, predecessor, Gaikai]
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A.
Piipaash
Piipaash are a Native American people of the lower Colorado River region, closely related to the Maricopa and known for their distinct language and cultural traditions.
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B.
Gitarama
Gitarama is a city in central Rwanda that became a significant site of violence and atrocities during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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C.
Kantuum
Kantuum is a lesser-known Austroasiatic language belonging to the Katuic branch, spoken by an ethnic minority in mainland Southeast Asia.
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D.
Vabysmo
Vabysmo is the brand name for faricimab, an injectable eye medication used to treat retinal diseases such as neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration and diabetic macular edema.
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E.
Jimo
Jimo is a county-level city under the administration of Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong Province, known for its historical heritage and rapidly developing economy.
- 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: Gaikai Target entity description: Gaikai was a pioneering cloud gaming service that streamed high-end video games over the internet, later acquired by Sony to help power its PlayStation streaming offerings.
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A.
Piipaash
Piipaash are a Native American people of the lower Colorado River region, closely related to the Maricopa and known for their distinct language and cultural traditions.
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B.
Gitarama
Gitarama is a city in central Rwanda that became a significant site of violence and atrocities during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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C.
Kantuum
Kantuum is a lesser-known Austroasiatic language belonging to the Katuic branch, spoken by an ethnic minority in mainland Southeast Asia.
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D.
Vabysmo
Vabysmo is the brand name for faricimab, an injectable eye medication used to treat retinal diseases such as neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration and diabetic macular edema.
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E.
Jimo
Jimo is a county-level city under the administration of Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong Province, known for its historical heritage and rapidly developing economy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cloud gaming service
ⓘ
defunct company ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Sony
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sony Computer Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionAmount | 380000000 USD ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2012-07-02 ⓘ |
| announced | 2009 ⓘ |
| competitor | OnLive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
PlayStation Now
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
PlayStation cloud streaming infrastructure ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dissolved | 2012 ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Andrew Gault
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Perry NERFINISHED ⓘ Rui Pereira NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Aliso Viejo, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| inception | 2008 ⓘ |
| industry |
cloud gaming
ⓘ
video game streaming ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| logoText | Gaikai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | one of the first large-scale commercial cloud gaming platforms ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
embedded game demos on websites
ⓘ
gameplay streamed from remote servers ⓘ no client installation required beyond a web browser ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Sony Computer Entertainment
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sony Interactive Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partneredWith |
Electronic Arts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Facebook NERFINISHED ⓘ Ubisoft NERFINISHED ⓘ Walmart NERFINISHED ⓘ YouTube NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicLaunch | 2011 ⓘ |
| status | discontinued ⓘ |
| successor | PlayStation Now NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportedPlatform |
Mac
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
PC ⓘ internet-connected devices ⓘ web browser ⓘ |
| technologyUsed |
low-latency networking
ⓘ
server-side game rendering ⓘ video compression streaming ⓘ |
| usedFor |
low-latency game streaming
ⓘ
streaming video games over the internet ⓘ |
| website | http://www.gaikai.com/ ⓘ |
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: Gaikai Description of subject: Gaikai was a pioneering cloud gaming service that streamed high-end video games over the internet, later acquired by Sony to help power its PlayStation streaming offerings.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.