Goomba
E311689
Goomba is a common mushroom-like enemy from the Super Mario video game series, known for walking straight toward the player and being easily defeated by a jump.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Goomba canonical | 22 |
| Goombas | 11 |
| Giant Goomba | 2 |
| Paragoomba | 2 |
| Goomba King | 1 |
| Goomba Mask | 1 |
| Micro Goomba | 1 |
| Microgoomba | 1 |
| Paragoombas | 1 |
| Prickly Goombas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2934686 — 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: Goomba Context triple: [Super Mario Bros. 3, enemy, Goomba]
-
A.
Koopa Troopa
Koopa Troopa is a turtle-like enemy species from Nintendo’s Mario series, known for retreating into its shell when jumped on and often serving as a basic, recurring foe throughout the games.
-
B.
Bowser
Bowser is the iconic fire-breathing, turtle-like villain from Nintendo’s Super Mario series, known as Mario’s arch-nemesis and the king of the Koopas.
-
C.
Toad
Toad is a loyal, mushroom-capped resident of the Mushroom Kingdom in the Super Mario franchise, known for assisting Mario and his friends on their adventures.
-
D.
Toad
Toad is a wealthy, impulsive, and adventure-loving character from Kenneth Grahame’s "The Wind in the Willows," known for his reckless enthusiasm and comic misadventures.
-
E.
Blooper
Blooper is the fuzzy, energetic costumed mascot of Major League Baseball’s Atlanta Braves, known for entertaining fans with comedic antics at games.
- 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: Goomba Target entity description: Goomba is a common mushroom-like enemy from the Super Mario video game series, known for walking straight toward the player and being easily defeated by a jump.
-
A.
Koopa Troopa
Koopa Troopa is a turtle-like enemy species from Nintendo’s Mario series, known for retreating into its shell when jumped on and often serving as a basic, recurring foe throughout the games.
-
B.
Bowser
Bowser is the iconic fire-breathing, turtle-like villain from Nintendo’s Super Mario series, known as Mario’s arch-nemesis and the king of the Koopas.
-
C.
Toad
Toad is a loyal, mushroom-capped resident of the Mushroom Kingdom in the Super Mario franchise, known for assisting Mario and his friends on their adventures.
-
D.
Toad
Toad is a wealthy, impulsive, and adventure-loving character from Kenneth Grahame’s "The Wind in the Willows," known for his reckless enthusiasm and comic misadventures.
-
E.
Blooper
Blooper is the fuzzy, energetic costumed mascot of Major League Baseball’s Atlanta Braves, known for entertaining fans with comedic antics at games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
mushroom-like creature ⓘ species ⓘ video game enemy ⓘ |
| alignment |
Bowser's army
ⓘ
linked to:
Koopa Troop
|
| appearsIn |
New Super Mario Bros.
ⓘ
Super Mario 64 ⓘ Super Mario Bros. ⓘ Super Mario Bros. 3 ⓘ Super Mario Galaxy ⓘ Super Mario Odyssey ⓘ Super Mario World ⓘ Super Mario series ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | video game ⓘ |
| attackMethod | contact damage ⓘ |
| bodyShape | mushroom-shaped ⓘ |
| category |
Mario enemies
ⓘ
Nintendo characters ⓘ |
| controlType | non-playable character ⓘ |
| creator | Nintendo ⓘ |
| defeatedBy |
Koopa shell
ⓘ
linked to:
Koopa Shell
fireball ⓘ jump ⓘ spin attack ⓘ |
| designedBy |
Shigeru Miyamoto
ⓘ
Takashi Tezuka ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Luigi
ⓘ
Mario ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| franchise | Mario ⓘ |
| gameGenre | platform game ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Galoomba
ⓘ
Giant Goomba ⓘ
linked to:
Goomba
Goomboss ⓘ Microgoomba ⓘ
linked to:
Goomba
Paragoomba ⓘ
linked to:
Goomba
|
| iconicStatus | one of the most recognizable Mario enemies ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| movementPattern |
walks back and forth
ⓘ
walks straight ⓘ |
| nameOrigin | Italian-American slang "goombah" ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
fanged mouth
ⓘ
large eyebrows ⓘ |
| relativeStrength | weak ⓘ |
| role |
basic enemy
ⓘ
common enemy ⓘ |
| speciesType | mushroom-like ⓘ |
| typicalColor | brown ⓘ |
| typicalLocation | Mushroom Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Goomba Description of subject: Goomba is a common mushroom-like enemy from the Super Mario video game series, known for walking straight toward the player and being easily defeated by a jump.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Super Mario video game franchise
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba
subject linked to:
Kuribo’s Shoe power-up
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba
linked to: Goomba