Red Shell
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Red Shell is a homing projectile item in the Mario Kart series that automatically targets and hits the racer directly ahead of the user.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Red Shell canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3537752 — 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: Red Shell Context triple: [Mario Kart 64, notableItem, Red Shell]
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A.
Trucolor
Trucolor was a mid-20th-century color motion picture process developed by Republic Pictures, used primarily in their Westerns and adventure films.
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B.
Marui
Marui is a Japanese department store and retail company known for its fashion-focused shopping complexes branded with the "OIOI" logo.
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C.
Jade
Jade is a 1995 neo-noir erotic thriller film known for its intricate murder mystery plot and stylish direction by William Friedkin.
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D.
Jade
Jade is a key protagonist in the action-comedy film "Bulletproof Monk," known for her rebellious streak and eventual role in the battle to protect a mystical scroll.
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E.
Jade
Jade is a recurring character in The Hangover film series, known as the Las Vegas stripper and brief wife of Stu who becomes entangled in the group's chaotic misadventures.
- 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: Red Shell Target entity description: Red Shell is a homing projectile item in the Mario Kart series that automatically targets and hits the racer directly ahead of the user.
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A.
Trucolor
Trucolor was a mid-20th-century color motion picture process developed by Republic Pictures, used primarily in their Westerns and adventure films.
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B.
Marui
Marui is a Japanese department store and retail company known for its fashion-focused shopping complexes branded with the "OIOI" logo.
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C.
Jade
Jade is a key protagonist in the action-comedy film "Bulletproof Monk," known for her rebellious streak and eventual role in the battle to protect a mystical scroll.
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D.
Jade
Jade is a 1995 neo-noir erotic thriller film known for its intricate murder mystery plot and stylish direction by William Friedkin.
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E.
Jade
Jade is a recurring character in The Hangover film series, known as the Las Vegas stripper and brief wife of Stu who becomes entangled in the group's chaotic misadventures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mario Kart item
ⓘ
projectile ⓘ shell item ⓘ |
| appearsInGame |
Mario Kart 64
ⓘ
Mario Kart 7 ⓘ Mario Kart 8 ⓘ Mario Kart 8 Deluxe ⓘ
linked to:
Mario Kart 8
Mario Kart DS ⓘ Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit ⓘ Mario Kart Tour ⓘ Mario Kart Wii ⓘ Mario Kart: Double Dash!! ⓘ Mario Kart: Super Circuit ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | Mario Kart ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Koopa Troopa shell
ⓘ
linked to:
Koopa Shell
|
| canBeBlockedBy |
Banana Peel
ⓘ
Green Shell ⓘ Super Horn ⓘ well-timed drift or obstacle ⓘ |
| canBeThrown |
backward
ⓘ
forward ⓘ |
| category | offensive item ⓘ |
| color | red ⓘ |
| effect |
can change race position order
ⓘ
causes loss of speed for hit racer ⓘ spins out hit racer ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Super Mario Kart ⓘ |
| franchise |
Mario franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Super Mario series
|
| gameMechanic |
automatically steers toward target
ⓘ
can hit walls and obstacles ⓘ travels along the track surface ⓘ |
| has3DModel | yes ⓘ |
| hasFunction | homing projectile ⓘ |
| hasSpinOffAppearances | yes ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Triple Red Shells
ⓘ
single Red Shell ⓘ |
| iconicStatus | one of the most recognizable Mario Kart items ⓘ |
| isHeldIn | item slot ⓘ |
| obtainedFrom | item box ⓘ |
| rarity | moderate ⓘ |
| strongerThan | Green Shell in targeting ability ⓘ |
| targets |
opponent kart
ⓘ
racer directly ahead of the user ⓘ |
| typicalUseCase | attacking the racer in front to gain position ⓘ |
| usableIn |
Grand Prix races
ⓘ
online multiplayer races ⓘ versus races ⓘ |
| weakerThan | Spiny Shell in overall threat ⓘ |
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: Red Shell Description of subject: Red Shell is a homing projectile item in the Mario Kart series that automatically targets and hits the racer directly ahead of the user.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.