Mario Bros.
E76861
Mario Bros. is a classic 1983 arcade platform game by Nintendo featuring Mario and Luigi battling creatures in underground sewers.
All labels observed (13)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T597993 — 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: Mario Bros. Context triple: [Luigi, firstAppearanceInVideoGame, Mario Bros.]
-
A.
Mario
Mario is a fictional Italian plumber and the iconic protagonist of Nintendo's long-running Super Mario video game franchise.
-
B.
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong is a powerful, gorilla-like video game character from Nintendo’s Donkey Kong and Mario franchises, known for his strength, barrel-throwing antics, and role as both rival and ally to Mario.
-
C.
Mario Kart 64
Mario Kart 64 is a classic Nintendo 64 kart racing game featuring iconic Mario characters, colorful tracks, and competitive multiplayer modes that helped define the party-racing genre.
-
D.
Yoshi’s Adventure
Yoshi’s Adventure is a family-friendly dark ride in Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan that takes guests on a scenic journey atop Yoshi through colorful Mushroom Kingdom environments.
-
E.
New Super Mario Bros.
New Super Mario Bros. is a side-scrolling platform game for the Nintendo DS that modernizes the classic Super Mario formula with updated graphics, new power-ups, and both single-player and multiplayer modes.
- 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: Mario Bros. Target entity description: Mario Bros. is a classic 1983 arcade platform game by Nintendo featuring Mario and Luigi battling creatures in underground sewers.
-
A.
Mario
Mario is a fictional Italian plumber and the iconic protagonist of Nintendo's long-running Super Mario video game franchise.
-
B.
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong is a powerful, gorilla-like video game character from Nintendo’s Donkey Kong and Mario franchises, known for his strength, barrel-throwing antics, and role as both rival and ally to Mario.
-
C.
Mario Kart 64
Mario Kart 64 is a classic Nintendo 64 kart racing game featuring iconic Mario characters, colorful tracks, and competitive multiplayer modes that helped define the party-racing genre.
-
D.
Yoshi’s Adventure
Yoshi’s Adventure is a family-friendly dark ride in Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan that takes guests on a scenic journey atop Yoshi through colorful Mushroom Kingdom environments.
-
E.
New Super Mario Bros.
New Super Mario Bros. is a side-scrolling platform game for the Nintendo DS that modernizes the classic Super Mario formula with updated graphics, new power-ups, and both single-player and multiplayer modes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
arcade game
ⓘ
platform game ⓘ video game ⓘ |
| audio | chiptune soundtrack ⓘ |
| coDesigner | Gunpei Yokoi ⓘ |
| controlScheme | joystick and buttons ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| designer | Shigeru Miyamoto ⓘ |
| developer | Nintendo ⓘ |
| developerCompanyType | video game company ⓘ |
| enemyType |
Fighter Fly
ⓘ
Shellcreeper ⓘ Sidestepper ⓘ Slipice ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Luigi
ⓘ
Mario ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceOf | Luigi ⓘ |
| gameMode |
multiplayer
ⓘ
single-player ⓘ |
| genre | platform ⓘ |
| graphicsStyle | 2D sprite-based ⓘ |
| hasMechanic |
POW block that affects all enemies on screen
ⓘ
flip enemies from below by hitting platforms ⓘ kick enemies off platforms after flipping ⓘ |
| includedWith |
Super Mario All-Stars (as bonus game variant)
ⓘ
linked to:
Super Mario All-Stars
Super Mario Bros. 3 (as Mario Bros. battle mode variant) ⓘ
linked to:
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3
|
| notableFor |
establishing core elements of the Mario franchise
ⓘ
introducing Mario’s brother Luigi as a playable character ⓘ |
| originalPlatform | arcade ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Mario series
ⓘ
linked to:
Nintendo video games
|
| perspective | side view ⓘ |
| portedTo |
Amstrad CPC
ⓘ
Apple II ⓘ Atari 2600 ⓘ Atari 5200 ⓘ Atari 7800 ⓘ Atari 8-bit family ⓘ Commodore 64 ⓘ Game & Watch ⓘ Game Boy Advance ⓘ Nintendo Entertainment System ⓘ ZX Spectrum ⓘ |
| predecessor | Donkey Kong ⓘ |
| primaryObjective | defeat creatures emerging from pipes ⓘ |
| publisher | Nintendo ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| setting | underground sewers ⓘ |
| successor | Super Mario Bros. ⓘ |
| supports | two-player simultaneous play ⓘ |
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: Mario Bros. Description of subject: Mario Bros. is a classic 1983 arcade platform game by Nintendo featuring Mario and Luigi battling creatures in underground sewers.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mario Bros.
linked to: Mario Bros.
linked to: Mario Bros.
linked to: Mario Bros.
linked to: Mario Bros.
linked to: Mario Bros.
linked to: Mario Bros.
linked to: Mario Bros.
linked to: Mario Bros.
linked to: Mario Bros.
linked to: Mario Bros.
linked to: Mario Bros.
linked to: Mario Bros.
linked to: Mario Bros.
linked to: Mario Bros.
linked to: Mario Bros.
linked to: Mario Bros.