King Koopa
E384997
antagonist
dragon-like creature
fictional character
reptilian humanoid
turtle-like creature
video game character
villain
King Koopa is the primary villain of Nintendo’s Super Mario series, a powerful, fire-breathing turtle-like king who frequently kidnaps Princess Peach and battles Mario.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3537390 — 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: King Koopa Context triple: [Bowser, alsoKnownAs, King Koopa]
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A.
Roy Koopa
Roy Koopa is one of the Koopalings in the Super Mario series, known for his bulky build, sunglasses, and role as a mid-level boss serving Bowser.
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B.
Larry Koopa
Larry Koopa is one of the Koopalings in the Super Mario series, a recurring boss character known for his blue hair, mischievous personality, and role as a high-ranking minion of Bowser.
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C.
Ludwig von Koopa
Ludwig von Koopa is one of the Koopalings in the Super Mario series, known for his wild blue hair, classical music-inspired name, and role as a recurring boss character.
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D.
Lemmy Koopa
Lemmy Koopa is one of the Koopalings in the Super Mario series, known for his playful, clown-like personality and battles that often involve balancing on a rubber ball.
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E.
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.
- 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: King Koopa Target entity description: King Koopa is the primary villain of Nintendo’s Super Mario series, a powerful, fire-breathing turtle-like king who frequently kidnaps Princess Peach and battles Mario.
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A.
Roy Koopa
Roy Koopa is one of the Koopalings in the Super Mario series, known for his bulky build, sunglasses, and role as a mid-level boss serving Bowser.
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B.
Larry Koopa
Larry Koopa is one of the Koopalings in the Super Mario series, a recurring boss character known for his blue hair, mischievous personality, and role as a high-ranking minion of Bowser.
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C.
Ludwig von Koopa
Ludwig von Koopa is one of the Koopalings in the Super Mario series, known for his wild blue hair, classical music-inspired name, and role as a recurring boss character.
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D.
Lemmy Koopa
Lemmy Koopa is one of the Koopalings in the Super Mario series, known for his playful, clown-like personality and battles that often involve balancing on a rubber ball.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (78)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
ⓘ
dragon-like creature ⓘ fictional character ⓘ reptilian humanoid ⓘ turtle-like creature ⓘ video game character ⓘ villain ⓘ |
| alignment | evil ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Bowser
ⓘ
Great King Koopa ⓘ
linked to:
King Koopa
Koopa ⓘ
linked to:
King Koopa
|
| appearsIn |
Mario Kart series
ⓘ
linked to:
Mario Kart
Mario Party series ⓘ
linked to:
Mario Party
New Super Mario Bros. ⓘ Super Mario 3D World ⓘ Super Mario 64 ⓘ Super Mario Bros. ⓘ Super Mario Bros. 3 ⓘ Super Mario Galaxy ⓘ Super Mario Galaxy 2 ⓘ Super Mario Odyssey ⓘ Super Mario Sunshine ⓘ Super Mario World ⓘ Super Mario series ⓘ Super Smash Bros. series ⓘ
linked to:
Super Smash Bros.
|
| commands |
Goombas
ⓘ
linked to:
Goomba
Hammer Bros. ⓘ
linked to:
Hammer Bro
Koopa Troop ⓘ Koopa Troopas ⓘ
linked to:
Koopa Troopa
Lakitus ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| createdBy | Shigeru Miyamoto ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Luigi
ⓘ
Mario ⓘ Princess Peach ⓘ Toad ⓘ Yoshi ⓘ |
| featuredIn |
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
|
| firstAppearanceYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| franchise |
Super Mario
ⓘ
linked to:
Super Mario series
|
| gameMechanicRole | final boss in many Super Mario games ⓘ |
| goal |
conquer the Mushroom Kingdom
ⓘ
defeat Mario ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
durability
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fire-breathing ⓘ magic use ⓘ size changing ⓘ superhuman strength ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
horns
ⓘ
orange hair ⓘ reptilian appearance ⓘ spiked shell ⓘ |
| hasChildren | Koopalings ⓘ |
| hasForm |
Dry Bowser
ⓘ
Fury Bowser ⓘ
linked to:
Bowser
Giga Bowser ⓘ
linked to:
Bowser
|
| hasVehicle |
Koopa Clown Car
ⓘ
airships ⓘ |
| kidnaps | Princess Peach ⓘ |
| leaderOf | Bowser Jr. ⓘ |
| parentOf | Bowser Jr. ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
Super Mario World (TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 ⓘ The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! ⓘ |
| publisher | Nintendo ⓘ |
| residesIn |
Bowser's Castle
ⓘ
linked to:
Bowser’s Castle
Mushroom Kingdom (various games) ⓘ
linked to:
Mushroom Kingdom
|
| role | primary antagonist of the Super Mario series ⓘ |
| species |
Koopa
ⓘ
linked to:
Koopa Troopa
|
| title | King of the Koopas ⓘ |
| voicedBy |
Charles Martinet (various roars and early roles)
ⓘ
linked to:
Charles Martinet
Jack Black ⓘ Kenneth W. James ⓘ Scott Burns ⓘ |
| weapon |
claws
ⓘ
fire breath ⓘ magic ⓘ spiked shell ⓘ |
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: King Koopa Description of subject: King Koopa is the primary villain of Nintendo’s Super Mario series, a powerful, fire-breathing turtle-like king who frequently kidnaps Princess Peach and battles Mario.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: King Koopa
linked to: King Koopa
linked to: King Koopa
linked to: King Koopa
linked to: King Koopa
linked to: King Koopa
linked to: King Koopa
linked to: King Koopa
linked to: King Koopa
subject linked to:
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 (cartoon)
subject linked to:
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 (cartoon)