Wither
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The Wither is a powerful, three-headed undead boss mob in Minecraft that players can summon to obtain rare items like nether stars.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wither canonical | 5 |
| Wither Storm | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2557097 — 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: Wither Context triple: [Minecraft, hasBoss, Wither]
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A.
Minecraft
Minecraft is a hugely popular sandbox video game that lets players explore, build, and survive in procedurally generated block-based worlds.
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B.
Minecraft Dungeons
Minecraft Dungeons is a dungeon-crawling action-adventure game set in the Minecraft universe, featuring cooperative combat, loot collection, and procedurally generated levels.
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C.
My World
"My World" is a track by Kid Cudi from his debut studio album "Man on the Moon: The End of Day."
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D.
Minecraft Legends
Minecraft Legends is an action-strategy spin-off of the Minecraft franchise that blends real-time combat, base-building, and cooperative play in a stylized overworld under siege.
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E.
Thorns
Thorns is the commonly used shorthand name for Portland Thorns FC, a professional women's soccer team based in Portland, Oregon.
- 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: Wither Target entity description: The Wither is a powerful, three-headed undead boss mob in Minecraft that players can summon to obtain rare items like nether stars.
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A.
Minecraft
Minecraft is a hugely popular sandbox video game that lets players explore, build, and survive in procedurally generated block-based worlds.
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B.
Minecraft Dungeons
Minecraft Dungeons is a dungeon-crawling action-adventure game set in the Minecraft universe, featuring cooperative combat, loot collection, and procedurally generated levels.
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C.
My World
"My World" is a track by Kid Cudi from his debut studio album "Man on the Moon: The End of Day."
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D.
Minecraft Legends
Minecraft Legends is an action-strategy spin-off of the Minecraft franchise that blends real-time combat, base-building, and cooperative play in a stylized overworld under siege.
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E.
Thorns
Thorns is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of identity, trauma, and media exploitation in a dystopian future.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Minecraft boss mob
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hostile mob ⓘ summonable entity ⓘ undead mob ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Minecraft ⓘ |
| canBeSummonedByPlayer | true ⓘ |
| canBreakBlocks | true ⓘ |
| canRegenerateHealth | true ⓘ |
| createsBlock |
Wither Rose
ⓘ
Wither effect explosion crater ⓘ |
| dropsItem |
Nether Star
ⓘ
Wither Skeleton Skull (Java Edition, via charged creeper) ⓘ |
| explosionType | mobGriefing-dependent block destruction ⓘ |
| hasAttack |
Wither Skull projectile
ⓘ
blue Wither Skull projectile ⓘ |
| hasColorTheme | black ⓘ |
| hasDimensionAssociation | Nether ⓘ |
| hasEffect | Wither status effect ⓘ |
| hasHeads | 3 ⓘ |
| hasPhase |
armor phase
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charging phase ⓘ ranged attack phase ⓘ |
| hasStatusEffectOnHit | Wither ⓘ |
| hasType | undead ⓘ |
| healthPointsBedrock | 600 ⓘ |
| healthPointsJava | 300 ⓘ |
| introducedInVersion |
Minecraft Java Edition 1.4.2
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linked to:
Minecraft
|
| isBossMob | true ⓘ |
| isFlyingMob | true ⓘ |
| isHostile | true ⓘ |
| isImmuneTo |
fire
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knockback (in armor phase) ⓘ lava ⓘ poison ⓘ regeneration ⓘ wither effect ⓘ |
| netherStarUsage | crafting beacons ⓘ |
| primaryReward | Nether Star ⓘ |
| regeneratesHealthIn |
Java Edition
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linked to:
Minecraft
|
| requiresItemToSummon |
Soul Sand
ⓘ
Soul Soil ⓘ Wither Skeleton Skull ⓘ |
| requiresPlayerActionToSpawn | true ⓘ |
| spawnsNaturally | false ⓘ |
| summoningPattern | T-shaped soul sand or soul soil with three wither skeleton skulls on top ⓘ |
| targets |
iron golems
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most mobs ⓘ players ⓘ villagers ⓘ wither roses (indirectly by creating them when killing mobs) ⓘ |
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: Wither Description of subject: The Wither is a powerful, three-headed undead boss mob in Minecraft that players can summon to obtain rare items like nether stars.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.