Boomerang
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Boomerang is a steel shuttle roller coaster known for its forward-and-backward looping layout, operating at the Worlds of Fun amusement park in Kansas City, Missouri.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boomerang canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3571379 — 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: Boomerang Context triple: [Worlds of Fun, hasRollerCoaster, Boomerang]
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A.
Boomerang
Boomerang is a television network known for airing classic and contemporary animated programming, particularly cartoons from the Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera libraries.
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B.
Boomerang
Boomerang is a 1992 romantic comedy film starring Eddie Murphy that follows a suave advertising executive whose womanizing ways are challenged when he meets his match.
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C.
Boomerang!
Boomerang! is a 1947 American film noir crime drama noted for its semi-documentary style and exploration of a real-life wrongful murder accusation.
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D.
Boomerang II
Boomerang II is a lesser-known track by Irish rock band U2, released as a B-side during their mid-1980s era.
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E.
Boomerang Bro
Boomerang Bro is a recurring Koopa enemy in the Mario series known for attacking by throwing boomerangs in arcing patterns.
- 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: Boomerang Target entity description: Boomerang is a steel shuttle roller coaster known for its forward-and-backward looping layout, operating at the Worlds of Fun amusement park in Kansas City, Missouri.
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A.
Boomerang
Boomerang is a television network known for airing classic and contemporary animated programming, particularly cartoons from the Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera libraries.
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B.
Boomerang
Boomerang is a 1992 romantic comedy film starring Eddie Murphy that follows a suave advertising executive whose womanizing ways are challenged when he meets his match.
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C.
Boomerang!
Boomerang! is a 1947 American film noir crime drama noted for its semi-documentary style and exploration of a real-life wrongful murder accusation.
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D.
Boomerang II
Boomerang II is a lesser-known track by Irish rock band U2, released as a B-side during their mid-1980s era.
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E.
Boomerang Bro
Boomerang Bro is a recurring Koopa enemy in the Mario series known for attacking by throwing boomerangs in arcing patterns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Boomerang model roller coaster
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amusement ride ⓘ shuttle roller coaster ⓘ steel roller coaster ⓘ |
| capacity | 760 riders per hour ⓘ |
| carsPerTrain | 7 ⓘ |
| category |
Roller coasters in Missouri
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Worlds of Fun attractions ⓘ |
| coasterType | inverted shuttle coaster ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| designer | Vekoma ⓘ |
| drop | 108 ft ⓘ |
| duration | 1:48 ⓘ |
| featuresElement |
cobra roll
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vertical loop ⓘ |
| height | 116 ft ⓘ |
| inversions | 3 ⓘ |
| layout | forward-and-backward looping layout ⓘ |
| length | 935 ft ⓘ |
| liftType | chain lift hill ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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surface form:
Kansas City, Missouri
Missouri ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Worlds of Fun ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Vekoma ⓘ |
| material | steel ⓘ |
| maxSpeed | 47 mph ⓘ |
| model | Boomerang self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| numberOfTrains | 1 ⓘ |
| openingYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| operationMode | shuttle ⓘ |
| parkSection |
Worlds of Fun
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surface form:
Africa (Worlds of Fun)
|
| restraintType | over-the-shoulder restraints ⓘ |
| rideExperience |
train is pulled backward up a lift hill and released through inversions
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train travels forward through inversions and then backward through the same inversions ⓘ |
| ridersPerRow | 2 ⓘ |
| rowsPerCar | 2 ⓘ |
| safetyRestriction | minimum height requirement applies to riders ⓘ |
| similarRideModel |
Boomerang (Hersheypark)
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Boomerang (Six Flags St. Louis) ⓘ |
| status | operating ⓘ |
| themePark | Worlds of Fun ⓘ |
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: Boomerang Description of subject: Boomerang is a steel shuttle roller coaster known for its forward-and-backward looping layout, operating at the Worlds of Fun amusement park in Kansas City, Missouri.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Boomerang (Worlds of Fun)
subject surface form:
Goliath (Six Flags Fiesta Texas)