Shulker
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A Shulker is a hostile, box-like mob in Minecraft that hides in walls and shoots homing projectiles that inflict the Levitation effect.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shulker canonical | 6 |
| Shulker Box Mob | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2557111 — 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: Shulker Context triple: [Minecraft, hasMob, Shulker]
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A.
Enderman
Enderman is a tall, teleporting, block-moving neutral mob from the game Minecraft that becomes hostile when directly looked at.
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B.
Wither Skeleton
The Wither Skeleton is a tall, dark, hostile undead mob in Minecraft’s Nether that wields stone swords and can inflict the wither status effect on players.
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C.
Iron Golem
Iron Golem is a powerful, neutral utility mob in Minecraft that protects villagers and players by attacking hostile creatures.
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D.
Ghast
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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E.
Kroitor
Kroitor is a surname most notably associated with Roman Kroitor, a pioneering Canadian filmmaker and co-founder of IMAX.
- 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: Shulker Target entity description: A Shulker is a hostile, box-like mob in Minecraft that hides in walls and shoots homing projectiles that inflict the Levitation effect.
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A.
Enderman
Enderman is a tall, teleporting, block-moving neutral mob from the game Minecraft that becomes hostile when directly looked at.
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B.
Wither Skeleton
The Wither Skeleton is a tall, dark, hostile undead mob in Minecraft’s Nether that wields stone swords and can inflict the wither status effect on players.
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C.
Iron Golem
Iron Golem is a powerful, neutral utility mob in Minecraft that protects villagers and players by attacking hostile creatures.
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D.
Ghast
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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E.
Kroitor
Kroitor is a surname most notably associated with Roman Kroitor, a pioneering Canadian filmmaker and co-founder of IMAX.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Block-like mob
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Hostile mob ⓘ Minecraft mob ⓘ |
| addedInVersion | Minecraft 1.9 ⓘ |
| AI |
Closes shell when not attacking
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Opens shell to attack ⓘ Teleports when hit or when no line of sight ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Shulker Box Mob
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linked to:
Shulker
|
| appearsIn | Minecraft ⓘ |
| armor |
High when closed
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Lower when open ⓘ |
| attackType | Ranged ⓘ |
| behavior |
Hides in walls
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Hostile to players ⓘ Opens and closes its shell ⓘ Stationary ⓘ |
| camouflage | Changes color to match purpur blocks ⓘ |
| canDespawn | False under normal conditions ⓘ |
| colorVariant | Dyed colors via Shulker Boxes (indirect association) ⓘ |
| dimension | End ⓘ |
| drops |
Experience orbs
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Shulker Shell ⓘ |
| dropUsedFor | Crafting Shulker Box ⓘ |
| effectDuration | Levitation for several seconds ⓘ |
| foundIn | End City ⓘ |
| gameModeInteraction |
Attacks in Survival mode
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Neutral to players in Creative mode ⓘ |
| healthPoints | 30 ⓘ |
| height |
1 block when closed
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2 blocks when fully open ⓘ |
| immunity |
Arrows when shell is closed
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Fall damage ⓘ Levitation effect ⓘ |
| inflictsEffect | Levitation ⓘ |
| movement |
Rotates to face target
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Teleports short distances ⓘ |
| projectileType | Homing bullet ⓘ |
| sound |
Projectile launch sound
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Shell closing sound ⓘ Shell opening sound ⓘ |
| spawnCondition | Naturally generates with End Cities ⓘ |
| spawnsOn |
End City ships
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End City towers ⓘ |
| target |
Endermen (when hit by shulker bullet)
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linked to:
Enderman
Iron Golems ⓘ Players ⓘ Snow Golems ⓘ
linked to:
Snow Golem
Villagers ⓘ Wandering Traders ⓘ |
| weakness | Swords when shell is open ⓘ |
| width | 1 block ⓘ |
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: Shulker Description of subject: A Shulker is a hostile, box-like mob in Minecraft that hides in walls and shoots homing projectiles that inflict the Levitation effect.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.