Tanooki Suit
E167610
The Tanooki Suit is a special raccoon-dog-themed power-up in the Super Mario series that lets Mario fly, tail-whip enemies, and temporarily turn into a statue.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tanooki Suit canonical | 10 |
| Tanooki Suits | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1460171 — 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: Tanooki Suit Context triple: [Mario, powerUp, Tanooki Suit]
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A.
Abaporu
Abaporu is a famous 1928 painting by Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral that became an icon of Brazilian modernism and inspired the Anthropophagic Movement in Brazilian art and literature.
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B.
Marichi
Marichi is a revered Vedic sage (one of the Saptarishi) regarded as a mind-born son of Brahma and an important progenitor in Hindu cosmology.
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C.
Simbo
Simbo is an Oceanic language of the Meso-Melanesian subgroup spoken on Simbo Island in the Solomon Islands.
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D.
Lo-Toga
Lo-Toga is an Oceanic language spoken on the Torres Islands in northern Vanuatu.
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E.
Sukki
Sukki is one of the four snowman mascots created to represent the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
- 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: Tanooki Suit Target entity description: The Tanooki Suit is a special raccoon-dog-themed power-up in the Super Mario series that lets Mario fly, tail-whip enemies, and temporarily turn into a statue.
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A.
Abaporu
Abaporu is a famous 1928 painting by Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral that became an icon of Brazilian modernism and inspired the Anthropophagic Movement in Brazilian art and literature.
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B.
Marichi
Marichi is a revered Vedic sage (one of the Saptarishi) regarded as a mind-born son of Brahma and an important progenitor in Hindu cosmology.
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C.
Simbo
Simbo is an Oceanic language of the Meso-Melanesian subgroup spoken on Simbo Island in the Solomon Islands.
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D.
Lo-Toga
Lo-Toga is an Oceanic language spoken on the Torres Islands in northern Vanuatu.
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E.
Sukki
Sukki is one of the four snowman mascots created to represent the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fictional object
ⓘ
Item ⓘ Power-up ⓘ |
| activationMethod | Collected as an item ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Super Mario 3D Land
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Super Mario 3D World ⓘ Super Mario Bros. 3 ⓘ Super Mario series ⓘ |
| basedOn | Tanuki ⓘ |
| category |
Fictional suits
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Mario power-ups ⓘ |
| controlInput | Player presses specific button to turn into statue ⓘ |
| developer | Nintendo ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Super Mario Bros. 3 ⓘ |
| franchise | Mario ⓘ |
| gameplayEffect |
Allows player to attack enemies with tail swipe
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Allows player to fly for a limited time ⓘ Allows player to slow descent while falling ⓘ Allows player to turn into an invulnerable statue temporarily ⓘ |
| genre | Platform game ⓘ |
| grantsAbility |
Flight
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Gliding ⓘ Statue transformation ⓘ Tail attack ⓘ |
| hasForm |
Tanooki Luigi
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linked to:
Raccoon Mario
Tanooki Mario ⓘ
linked to:
Raccoon Mario
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| inspiredBy | Japanese folklore ⓘ |
| mechanicType | Temporary power-up ⓘ |
| medium | Video game ⓘ |
| originCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| platformAppearance |
Nintendo 3DS
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Nintendo Entertainment System ⓘ Wii U ⓘ |
| publisher | Nintendo ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Raccoon Mario
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Statue Mario ⓘ Super Leaf ⓘ |
| statueMaterialAppearance | Stone ⓘ |
| statueStateProperty |
Immobility
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Temporary invincibility ⓘ |
| theme | Raccoon dog ⓘ |
| videoGameSeries |
Super Mario
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linked to:
Super Mario series
|
| visualFeature |
Brown animal costume
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Raccoon-like ears ⓘ Raccoon-like tail ⓘ |
| wornBy |
Luigi
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Mario ⓘ |
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: Tanooki Suit Description of subject: The Tanooki Suit is a special raccoon-dog-themed power-up in the Super Mario series that lets Mario fly, tail-whip enemies, and temporarily turn into a statue.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.