Ninji
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Ninji is a small, black, ninja-like creature from the Super Mario series known for its leaping attacks and appearances as a recurring enemy.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ninji canonical | 2 |
| Ninjis | 1 |
| moving-jumping Ninji | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2915480 — 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: Ninji Context triple: [Super Mario Bros. 2, enemy, Ninji]
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A.
Nobiin
Nobiin is a Nile-Nubian language spoken primarily by Nubian communities in southern Egypt and northern Sudan, known for its ancient roots and rich oral tradition.
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B.
Nene
Nene was the principal wife of Japanese warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi and a politically influential noblewoman during the late Sengoku period.
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C.
Quatchi
Quatchi is a sasquatch character who served as one of the official mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
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D.
Bachué
Bachué is a principal mother goddess in Muisca mythology, associated with creation, fertility, and the origin of humanity.
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E.
Zibelle
Zibelle is a village in eastern Germany, historically part of Lusatia, known in this context as the place where physicist Walther Nernst died.
- 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: Ninji Target entity description: Ninji is a small, black, ninja-like creature from the Super Mario series known for its leaping attacks and appearances as a recurring enemy.
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A.
Nobiin
Nobiin is a Nile-Nubian language spoken primarily by Nubian communities in southern Egypt and northern Sudan, known for its ancient roots and rich oral tradition.
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B.
Nene
Nene was the principal wife of Japanese warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi and a politically influential noblewoman during the late Sengoku period.
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C.
Quatchi
Quatchi is a sasquatch character who served as one of the official mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
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D.
Bachué
Bachué is a principal mother goddess in Muisca mythology, associated with creation, fertility, and the origin of humanity.
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E.
Zibelle
Zibelle is a village in eastern Germany, historically part of Lusatia, known in this context as the place where physicist Walther Nernst died.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Super Mario enemy
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ species ⓘ video game enemy ⓘ |
| ability |
jumping in place
ⓘ
leaping attack ⓘ moving while jumping ⓘ |
| alignment | enemy ⓘ |
| appearsInGame |
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions
ⓘ
Mario Party ⓘ
surface form:
Mario Party series
Paper Mario: Color Splash ⓘ Super Mario Bros. 35 ⓘ Super Mario Maker ⓘ
surface form:
Super Mario Maker 2
Super Mario Run for iOS ⓘ
surface form:
Super Mario Run
Super Mario World ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | video games ⓘ |
| appearsWithCharacter |
Princess Peach
ⓘ
Toad ⓘ |
| color | black ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| creator | Nintendo ⓘ |
| designedFor | platform games ⓘ |
| enemyCategory | ground enemy ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Luigi
ⓘ
Mario ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic
ⓘ
surface form:
Doki Doki Panic
Super Mario Bros. 2 ⓘ |
| franchise |
Super Mario series
ⓘ
surface form:
Super Mario
|
| gameMechanic | can be defeated by jumping on it ⓘ |
| gameUniverse | Mushroom Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre | platformer character ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Ninji
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
moving-jumping Ninji
stationary-jumping Ninji ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| movementStyle |
hopping
ⓘ
jumping ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
ninja-like appearance
ⓘ
pointed ears ⓘ small body ⓘ wears a ninja-style outfit ⓘ white eyes ⓘ |
| publisher | Nintendo ⓘ |
| recurringSince | 1987 ⓘ |
| role | recurring enemy ⓘ |
| size | small ⓘ |
| speciesType | ninja-like creature ⓘ |
| videoGameSeries | Super Mario series ⓘ |
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: Ninji Description of subject: Ninji is a small, black, ninja-like creature from the Super Mario series known for its leaping attacks and appearances as a recurring enemy.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
moving-jumping Ninji
this entity surface form:
Ninjis