Fan of Blades
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Fan of Blades is a short-range burst attack used by Genji in Overwatch, where he rapidly throws multiple shuriken in a wide spread to damage nearby enemies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fan of Blades canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11543083 — 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: Fan of Blades Context triple: [Genji, ability, Fan of Blades]
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A.
The Blades
The Blades is the nickname of Sheffield United Football Club, a professional English football team based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
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B.
Blades
Blades is the short name for the Oakville Blades, a junior ice hockey team based in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
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C.
The Blade Artist
The Blade Artist is a novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh that revisits the character Francis Begbie from Trainspotting, exploring his violent past and attempts at reinvention in a new life abroad.
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D.
Blades the Bruin
Blades the Bruin is the official anthropomorphic bear mascot of the NHL’s Boston Bruins, known for entertaining fans at games and team events.
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E.
Bladee
Bladee is a Swedish rapper, singer, and visual artist known for his ethereal, autotuned vocals and influential role in the Drain Gang collective within the cloud rap and experimental hip-hop scenes.
- 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: Fan of Blades Target entity description: Fan of Blades is a short-range burst attack used by Genji in Overwatch, where he rapidly throws multiple shuriken in a wide spread to damage nearby enemies.
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A.
The Blades
The Blades is the nickname of Sheffield United Football Club, a professional English football team based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
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B.
Blades
Blades is the short name for the Oakville Blades, a junior ice hockey team based in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
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C.
The Blade Artist
The Blade Artist is a novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh that revisits the character Francis Begbie from Trainspotting, exploring his violent past and attempts at reinvention in a new life abroad.
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D.
Blades the Bruin
Blades the Bruin is the official anthropomorphic bear mascot of the NHL’s Boston Bruins, known for entertaining fans at games and team events.
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E.
Bladee
Bladee is a Swedish rapper, singer, and visual artist known for his ethereal, autotuned vocals and influential role in the Drain Gang collective within the cloud rap and experimental hip-hop scenes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ability
ⓘ
burst attack ⓘ short-range attack ⓘ |
| activationMethod | secondary fire button ⓘ |
| ammoConsumptionPerUse | 3 shuriken ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Overwatch
ⓘ
Overwatch 2 ⓘ |
| belongsToFranchise |
Overwatch franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Overwatch
|
| canBeUsedWhileMoving | true ⓘ |
| canHeadshot | true ⓘ |
| canHitMultipleTargets | true ⓘ |
| comboWith |
Dragonblade
ⓘ
Swift Strike ⓘ |
| damageType | projectile ⓘ |
| designedFor | close-quarters combat ⓘ |
| effectiveAgainst | nearby enemies ⓘ |
| fireMode | alternate fire ⓘ |
| firesInPattern |
horizontal spread
ⓘ
wide spread ⓘ |
| firesProjectilesPerUse | three shuriken ⓘ |
| hasCooldown | no ⓘ |
| hasGameRole | offensive ability ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Overwatch ⓘ |
| primaryWeaponOf | Genji ⓘ |
| projectileCount | 3 ⓘ |
| rangeType | short range ⓘ |
| requiresAim | manual aim ⓘ |
| sharesResourceWith | Genji shuriken ammo ⓘ |
| usedBy | Genji ⓘ |
| weaponType | shuriken ⓘ |
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: Fan of Blades Description of subject: Fan of Blades is a short-range burst attack used by Genji in Overwatch, where he rapidly throws multiple shuriken in a wide spread to damage nearby enemies.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.