Boo
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Boo is a recurring ghost-like enemy in the Super Mario series, known for covering its face when looked at and attacking when the player’s back is turned.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3537513 — 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: Boo Context triple: [Mushroom Kingdom, enemy, Boo]
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A.
Boo
Boo is a suburban district and island area in the Stockholm archipelago, located within Nacka Municipality in Sweden.
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B.
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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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.
Cousin Itt
Cousin Itt is a diminutive, entirely hair-covered member of the eccentric Addams clan, known for his rapid, unintelligible speech and quirky charm.
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E.
Ghast
A Ghast is a large, floating, ghost-like hostile mob in Minecraft’s Nether dimension that shoots explosive fireballs and emits eerie cries.
- 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: Boo Target entity description: Boo is a recurring ghost-like enemy in the Super Mario series, known for covering its face when looked at and attacking when the player’s back is turned.
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A.
Boo
Boo is a suburban district and island area in the Stockholm archipelago, located within Nacka Municipality in Sweden.
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B.
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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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.
Cousin Itt
Cousin Itt is a diminutive, entirely hair-covered member of the eccentric Addams clan, known for his rapid, unintelligible speech and quirky charm.
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E.
Ghast
A Ghast is a large, floating, ghost-like hostile mob in Minecraft’s Nether dimension that shoots explosive fireballs and emits eerie cries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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ghost ⓘ species ⓘ video game enemy ⓘ |
| alignment | enemy of Mario ⓘ |
| allyOf |
King Boo
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linked to:
Boo
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| appearsIn |
Luigi's Mansion
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Luigi's Mansion 3 ⓘ Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon ⓘ Mario & Luigi series ⓘ
linked to:
Mario & Luigi
Mario Kart series ⓘ
linked to:
Mario Kart
Mario Party series ⓘ
linked to:
Mario Party
New Super Mario Bros. ⓘ New Super Mario Bros. U ⓘ New Super Mario Bros. Wii ⓘ Paper Mario series ⓘ
linked to:
Paper Mario
Super Mario 3D Land ⓘ Super Mario 3D World ⓘ Super Mario 64 ⓘ Super Mario Bros. 3 ⓘ Super Mario Galaxy ⓘ Super Mario Galaxy 2 ⓘ Super Mario Sunshine ⓘ Super Mario World ⓘ Super Mario series ⓘ |
| behavior |
attacks when the player turns away
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covers its face when looked at ⓘ floats in the air ⓘ often appears in groups ⓘ often chases the player ⓘ |
| color | white ⓘ |
| creator |
Nintendo
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Shigeru Miyamoto ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Luigi
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Mario ⓘ |
| feature |
long tongue
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round body ⓘ sharp fangs ⓘ small arms ⓘ |
| franchise | Mario ⓘ |
| language | gibberish sounds ⓘ |
| subtypeOf | ghost enemy in Mario games ⓘ |
| typicalLocation |
castles
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ghost houses ⓘ haunted mansions ⓘ |
| universe | Mushroom Kingdom ⓘ |
| weakness |
can be defeated by light in some games
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can be defeated with certain power-ups ⓘ |
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: Boo Description of subject: Boo is a recurring ghost-like enemy in the Super Mario series, known for covering its face when looked at and attacking when the player’s back is turned.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Boo
linked to: Boo
linked to: Boo
linked to: Boo
linked to: Boo
linked to: Boo