Ghast
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A Ghast is a large, floating, ghost-like hostile mob in Minecraft’s Nether dimension that shoots explosive fireballs and emits eerie cries.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ghast canonical | 1 |
| Ghast Tear | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2557107 — 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: Ghast Context triple: [Minecraft, hasMob, Ghast]
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A.
Demogorgon
Demogorgon is a terrifying predatory monster from the Upside Down in the TV series "Stranger Things," known for its humanoid body and flower-like, tooth-filled head.
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B.
Boo
Boo is a suburban district and island area in the Stockholm archipelago, located within Nacka Municipality in Sweden.
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C.
Boo
Boo is a statically typed, Python-inspired programming language for the .NET platform that was once used as a primary scripting option in the Unity game engine.
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D.
Boo
Boo is the young human girl in Pixar's animated film "Monsters, Inc." whose unexpected arrival in the monster world drives the story's central conflict and emotional core.
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E.
Smargadus
Smargadus was the exarch of Ravenna who commissioned the Column of Phocas in the Roman Forum in the early 7th century.
- 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: Ghast Target entity description: A Ghast is a large, floating, ghost-like hostile mob in Minecraft’s Nether dimension that shoots explosive fireballs and emits eerie cries.
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A.
Demogorgon
Demogorgon is a terrifying predatory monster from the Upside Down in the TV series "Stranger Things," known for its humanoid body and flower-like, tooth-filled head.
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B.
Boo
Boo is a suburban district and island area in the Stockholm archipelago, located within Nacka Municipality in Sweden.
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C.
Boo
Boo is the young human girl in Pixar's animated film "Monsters, Inc." whose unexpected arrival in the monster world drives the story's central conflict and emotional core.
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D.
Boo
Boo is a statically typed, Python-inspired programming language for the .NET platform that was once used as a primary scripting option in the Unity game engine.
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E.
Smargadus
Smargadus was the exarch of Ravenna who commissioned the Column of Phocas in the Roman Forum in the early 7th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Minecraft mob
ⓘ
fictional creature ⓘ hostile mob ⓘ |
| affectedByGameRule | mobGriefing ⓘ |
| aiFeature |
flees when player is close
ⓘ
stops moving while shooting ⓘ wanders in air ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Minecraft
ⓘ
Nether dimension ⓘ |
| attackType |
explosive fireball
ⓘ
ranged attack ⓘ |
| behavior | hostile at range ⓘ |
| canBeHurtBy | reflected fireballs ⓘ |
| canFly | true ⓘ |
| canGriefTerrain | true (default game rules) ⓘ |
| category | Nether mob ⓘ |
| damageType |
explosion
ⓘ
fire ⓘ |
| dimension | Nether ⓘ |
| environment | Nether ⓘ |
| experienceDrop | 5 XP ⓘ |
| fireballExplosionPower | 1 (Java Edition default) ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Minecraft Alpha 1.2.0
ⓘ
linked to:
Minecraft
|
| gameDeveloper | Mojang Studios ⓘ |
| gravityAffected | false ⓘ |
| healthPoints |
10 hearts
ⓘ
20 HP ⓘ |
| height | 4 blocks ⓘ |
| hostilityRange | up to 64 blocks ⓘ |
| immuneTo |
fire
ⓘ
lava ⓘ |
| inspiration | ghost-like creature ⓘ |
| loot |
ghast tear
ⓘ
gunpowder ⓘ |
| movementType |
floating
ⓘ
flying ⓘ |
| projectile | Ghast fireball ⓘ |
| size | large ⓘ |
| sound |
eerie cries
ⓘ
moans ⓘ screams ⓘ |
| spawnCondition |
Nether wastes biome
ⓘ
basalt deltas biome (low chance) ⓘ soul sand valley biome ⓘ |
| spawnLightLevel | any light level ⓘ |
| spawnSurface | solid block ⓘ |
| visualAppearance | white cube with tentacles ⓘ |
| weakness |
melee attacks
ⓘ
projectiles ⓘ |
| width | 4 blocks ⓘ |
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: Ghast Description of subject: A Ghast is a large, floating, ghost-like hostile mob in Minecraft’s Nether dimension that shoots explosive fireballs and emits eerie cries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ghast