Piglin
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Piglins are hostile, pig-like humanoid mobs in Minecraft’s Nether dimension that are attracted to gold and can be bartered with for various items.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Piglin canonical | 2 |
| Piglins | 2 |
| Piglin hordes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2557109 — 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: Piglin Context triple: [Minecraft, hasMob, Piglin]
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A.
Enderman
Enderman is a tall, teleporting, block-moving neutral mob from the game Minecraft that becomes hostile when directly looked at.
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B.
Wither Skeleton
The Wither Skeleton is a tall, dark, hostile undead mob in Minecraft’s Nether that wields stone swords and can inflict the wither status effect on players.
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C.
Ghast
A Ghast is a large, floating, ghost-like hostile mob in Minecraft’s Nether dimension that shoots explosive fireballs and emits eerie cries.
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D.
Iron Golem
Iron Golem is a powerful, neutral utility mob in Minecraft that protects villagers and players by attacking hostile creatures.
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E.
Poro
Poro is a municipality located on Poro Island in the province of Cebu in the Philippines.
- 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: Piglin Target entity description: Piglins are hostile, pig-like humanoid mobs in Minecraft’s Nether dimension that are attracted to gold and can be bartered with for various items.
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A.
Enderman
Enderman is a tall, teleporting, block-moving neutral mob from the game Minecraft that becomes hostile when directly looked at.
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B.
Wither Skeleton
The Wither Skeleton is a tall, dark, hostile undead mob in Minecraft’s Nether that wields stone swords and can inflict the wither status effect on players.
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C.
Ghast
A Ghast is a large, floating, ghost-like hostile mob in Minecraft’s Nether dimension that shoots explosive fireballs and emits eerie cries.
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D.
Iron Golem
Iron Golem is a powerful, neutral utility mob in Minecraft that protects villagers and players by attacking hostile creatures.
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E.
Poro
Poro is a municipality located on Poro Island in the province of Cebu in the Philippines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Minecraft mob
ⓘ
Nether mob ⓘ hostile mob ⓘ humanoid mob ⓘ |
| ageVariants |
adult
ⓘ
baby ⓘ |
| alignment | neutral toward hoglins unless hunting ⓘ |
| angerCondition |
attacking piglins
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mining gold blocks near piglins ⓘ opening chests near piglins ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Minecraft ⓘ |
| armorPreference | equips stronger armor found on ground ⓘ |
| attacks |
player
ⓘ
wither ⓘ wither boss ⓘ wither skeleton ⓘ |
| attractedTo |
gold ingot
ⓘ
gold-related items ⓘ |
| barterCurrency | gold ingot ⓘ |
| barterMechanic | throws item to player after receiving gold ingot ⓘ |
| behavior |
hostile to players without gold armor
ⓘ
neutral if player wears at least one piece of gold armor ⓘ |
| biologicalAppearance | pig-like humanoid ⓘ |
| canBarterWith | player ⓘ |
| canRide | hoglin (baby piglins) ⓘ |
| conversionTrigger | being outside Nether for extended time ⓘ |
| convertsTo |
zombified piglin when in End
ⓘ
zombified piglin when in Overworld ⓘ |
| dimension | Nether ⓘ |
| drops |
gold nuggets
ⓘ
rotten flesh ⓘ |
| firstAppearedInUpdate | Nether Update ⓘ |
| firstAppearedInVersion | Minecraft Java Edition 1.16 ⓘ |
| hunts | hoglin in groups ⓘ |
| isAfraidOf |
soul campfire
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soul fire ⓘ soul lantern ⓘ soul torch ⓘ zombified hoglin ⓘ zombified piglin ⓘ |
| isDistractedBy | gold items on ground ⓘ |
| isImmuneTo | fire damage (Java Edition) ⓘ |
| isNotImmuneTo | lava damage (Java Edition) ⓘ |
| language | speaks piglin vocalizations (grunts and squeals) ⓘ |
| relatedMob |
hoglin
ⓘ
piglin brute ⓘ zombified piglin ⓘ |
| spawnsIn |
Nether
ⓘ
surface form:
Nether wastes
bastion remnants ⓘ crimson forest ⓘ |
| tradesPossibleItems |
crying obsidian
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fire charge ⓘ gravel ⓘ leather ⓘ nether quartz ⓘ obsidian ⓘ potion of fire resistance ⓘ spectral arrow (Java Edition) ⓘ string ⓘ |
| weapon |
crossbow
ⓘ
golden sword ⓘ |
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: Piglin Description of subject: Piglins are hostile, pig-like humanoid mobs in Minecraft’s Nether dimension that are attracted to gold and can be bartered with for various items.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Piglins
this entity surface form:
Piglin hordes