Super Mario Bros. 2
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Super Mario Bros. 2 is a 1988 Nintendo platform game for the NES known for its distinct gameplay featuring multiple playable characters, including Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Toadstool, and its departure from traditional Mario mechanics.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Super Mario Bros. 2 canonical | 22 |
| Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES) | 2 |
| Super Mario Bros. 2 (original NES release) | 1 |
| Super Mario USA | 1 |
| Super Mario USA (Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 2) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T597998 — 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: Super Mario Bros. 2 Context triple: [Luigi, appearsInVideoGame, Super Mario Bros. 2]
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A.
Mario Bros.
Mario Bros. is a classic 1983 arcade platform game by Nintendo featuring Mario and Luigi battling creatures in underground sewers.
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B.
New Super Mario Bros.
New Super Mario Bros. is a side-scrolling platform game for the Nintendo DS that modernizes the classic Super Mario formula with updated graphics, new power-ups, and both single-player and multiplayer modes.
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C.
Yoshi’s Adventure
Yoshi’s Adventure is a family-friendly dark ride in Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan that takes guests on a scenic journey atop Yoshi through colorful Mushroom Kingdom environments.
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D.
Super Mario 64 DS
Super Mario 64 DS is an enhanced Nintendo DS remake of the classic 3D platformer Super Mario 64, featuring multiple playable characters, new levels, and additional content.
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E.
New Super Mario Bros. U
New Super Mario Bros. U is a side-scrolling platform game for the Wii U that continues Nintendo’s classic Super Mario series with new levels, power-ups, and multiplayer features.
- 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: Super Mario Bros. 2 Target entity description: Super Mario Bros. 2 is a 1988 Nintendo platform game for the NES known for its distinct gameplay featuring multiple playable characters, including Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Toadstool, and its departure from traditional Mario mechanics.
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A.
Mario Bros.
Mario Bros. is a classic 1983 arcade platform game by Nintendo featuring Mario and Luigi battling creatures in underground sewers.
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B.
New Super Mario Bros.
New Super Mario Bros. is a side-scrolling platform game for the Nintendo DS that modernizes the classic Super Mario formula with updated graphics, new power-ups, and both single-player and multiplayer modes.
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C.
Yoshi’s Adventure
Yoshi’s Adventure is a family-friendly dark ride in Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan that takes guests on a scenic journey atop Yoshi through colorful Mushroom Kingdom environments.
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D.
Super Mario 64 DS
Super Mario 64 DS is an enhanced Nintendo DS remake of the classic 3D platformer Super Mario 64, featuring multiple playable characters, new levels, and additional content.
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E.
New Super Mario Bros. U
New Super Mario Bros. U is a side-scrolling platform game for the Wii U that continues Nintendo’s classic Super Mario series with new levels, power-ups, and multiplayer features.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nintendo Entertainment System game
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platform game ⓘ video game ⓘ |
| artStyle | 2D sprite-based graphics ⓘ |
| basedOn | Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic ⓘ |
| cameraPerspective | side-scrolling ⓘ |
| composer | Koji Kondo ⓘ |
| designer | Shigeru Miyamoto ⓘ |
| developer | Nintendo ⓘ |
| director | Kensuke Tanabe ⓘ |
| distinguishingAspect |
departure from traditional Super Mario Bros. mechanics
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no time limit on stages ⓘ no traditional stomping to defeat most enemies ⓘ |
| enemy |
Birdo
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Ninji ⓘ Shy Guy ⓘ |
| feature |
ability to pick up and throw objects
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character selection before each level ⓘ health meter with multiple hearts ⓘ subcon dream world setting ⓘ vertical scrolling levels ⓘ |
| finalBoss | Wart ⓘ |
| genre | platformer ⓘ |
| hasPlayableCharacter |
Luigi
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Mario ⓘ Princess Peach ⓘ
surface form:
Princess Toadstool
Toad ⓘ |
| hasRemakeOrPort |
Super Mario Advance
ⓘ
Super Mario All-Stars ⓘ |
| mode | single-player ⓘ |
| notableFor |
introducing Birdo to the Mario series
ⓘ
Mario ⓘ
surface form:
introducing Shy Guys to the Mario series
introducing playable Princess Toadstool in a mainline Mario game ⓘ |
| originalReleasePlatform | Nintendo Entertainment System ⓘ |
| originalReleaseRegion | North America ⓘ |
| platform |
Nintendo Entertainment System
ⓘ
surface form:
Famicom
Game Boy Advance ⓘ Nintendo Entertainment System ⓘ Nintendo Switch Online ⓘ Super Nintendo Entertainment System ⓘ Virtual Console ⓘ |
| predecessor | Super Mario Bros. ⓘ |
| producer | Shigeru Miyamoto ⓘ |
| publisher | Nintendo ⓘ |
| regionVariantOf |
Super Mario Bros. 2
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Super Mario USA
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| releaseYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| series |
Mario
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surface form:
Super Mario
|
| setting | Subcon ⓘ |
| successor | Super Mario Bros. 3 ⓘ |
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: Super Mario Bros. 2 Description of subject: Super Mario Bros. 2 is a 1988 Nintendo platform game for the NES known for its distinct gameplay featuring multiple playable characters, including Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Toadstool, and its departure from traditional Mario mechanics.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Super Mario USA
this entity surface form:
Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES)
this entity surface form:
Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES)
this entity surface form:
Super Mario USA (Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 2)
this entity surface form:
Super Mario Bros. 2 (original NES release)
subject surface form:
Princess Peach