Spin Drill
E374448
Spin Drill is a power-up item in Super Mario Galaxy 2 that lets Mario burrow through planets and surfaces to emerge on the other side.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spin Drill canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3627000 — 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: Spin Drill Context triple: [Super Mario Galaxy 2, powerUp, Spin Drill]
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A.
Corkscrew
Corkscrew is a steel roller coaster at Michigan’s Adventure known for its signature double-inversion corkscrew elements.
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B.
Scrambler
Scrambler is a classic spinning amusement ride located at the Worlds of Fun theme park in Kansas City, Missouri.
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C.
The Grinder
The Grinder is an American television sitcom that satirizes legal dramas, starring Rob Lowe and Fred Savage as brothers whose lives are upended when a TV lawyer returns home believing he can practice real law.
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D.
Olite
Olite is a historic town in northern Spain renowned for its well-preserved medieval architecture and the royal palace of the kings of Navarre.
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E.
Cutter
Cutter is a key supporting character in the film "The Prestige," serving as an experienced stage engineer who designs illusions and becomes entangled in the rivalry between two magicians.
- 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: Spin Drill Target entity description: Spin Drill is a power-up item in Super Mario Galaxy 2 that lets Mario burrow through planets and surfaces to emerge on the other side.
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A.
Corkscrew
Corkscrew is a steel roller coaster at Michigan’s Adventure known for its signature double-inversion corkscrew elements.
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B.
Scrambler
Scrambler is a classic spinning amusement ride located at the Worlds of Fun theme park in Kansas City, Missouri.
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C.
The Grinder
The Grinder is an American television sitcom that satirizes legal dramas, starring Rob Lowe and Fred Savage as brothers whose lives are upended when a TV lawyer returns home believing he can practice real law.
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D.
Olite
Olite is a historic town in northern Spain renowned for its well-preserved medieval architecture and the royal palace of the kings of Navarre.
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E.
Cutter
Cutter is a key supporting character in the film "The Prestige," serving as an experienced stage engineer who designs illusions and becomes entangled in the rivalry between two magicians.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
game mechanic
ⓘ
power-up item ⓘ |
| activationMethod | spin attack ⓘ |
| affectsMovement |
allows access to hidden areas
ⓘ
allows vertical traversal through solid ground ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Super Mario Galaxy 2 ⓘ |
| appearsInLevelType | planetoid stages ⓘ |
| appearsInMode | single-player ⓘ |
| belongsToSeriesEntry |
Super Mario Galaxy 2
ⓘ
surface form:
Super Mario Galaxy series
|
| category | temporary power-up ⓘ |
| controlContext | motion-controlled 3D movement ⓘ |
| developer |
Nintendo EAD Tokyo
ⓘ
surface form:
Nintendo EAD
|
| enablesAction |
burrowing through planets
ⓘ
burrowing through surfaces ⓘ emerging on the opposite side of terrain ⓘ |
| firstReleaseYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| franchise |
Super Mario series
ⓘ
surface form:
Super Mario
|
| gameGenreContext | 3D platformer ⓘ |
| hasLimitation |
can only drill along the axis of the current surface
ⓘ
cannot drill through some special materials ⓘ |
| introducedInGame | Super Mario Galaxy 2 ⓘ |
| mechanicType |
mobility enhancement
ⓘ
terrain manipulation ⓘ |
| platform |
Nintendo Wii
ⓘ
surface form:
Wii
|
| publisher | Nintendo ⓘ |
| usedByCharacter |
Luigi
ⓘ
Mario ⓘ |
| usedFor |
defeating certain enemies from below
ⓘ
reaching otherwise inaccessible locations ⓘ solving environmental puzzles ⓘ |
| visualFeature | resembles a handheld drill ⓘ |
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: Spin Drill Description of subject: Spin Drill is a power-up item in Super Mario Galaxy 2 that lets Mario burrow through planets and surfaces to emerge on the other side.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.