Spore Crawler
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The Spore Crawler is a Zerg static defense structure in StarCraft II that provides anti-air and detection capabilities against enemy air units and cloaked threats.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spore Crawler canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11544136 — 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: Spore Crawler Context triple: [Zerg, defensiveStructure, Spore Crawler]
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A.
The Swarm
"The Swarm" is a poem by Winter Trees, likely exploring themes of collective movement, nature, or transformation through vivid, atmospheric imagery.
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B.
The Swarm
The Swarm is a winged steel roller coaster at Thorpe Park in the UK, themed around a post-apocalyptic disaster with near-miss elements and inversions.
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C.
Worm
Worm is a charismatic, wisecracking high school basketball player and member of Coach Carter’s team in the 2005 sports drama film "Coach Carter."
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D.
Superworm
Superworm is a popular children's picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, featuring a heroic worm who helps other animals with his extraordinary abilities.
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E.
Spinario
Spinario is an ancient Roman bronze sculpture depicting a boy removing a thorn from his foot, celebrated for its naturalistic detail and emotional realism.
- 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: Spore Crawler Target entity description: The Spore Crawler is a Zerg static defense structure in StarCraft II that provides anti-air and detection capabilities against enemy air units and cloaked threats.
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A.
The Swarm
"The Swarm" is a poem by Winter Trees, likely exploring themes of collective movement, nature, or transformation through vivid, atmospheric imagery.
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B.
The Swarm
The Swarm is a winged steel roller coaster at Thorpe Park in the UK, themed around a post-apocalyptic disaster with near-miss elements and inversions.
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C.
Worm
Worm is a charismatic, wisecracking high school basketball player and member of Coach Carter’s team in the 2005 sports drama film "Coach Carter."
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D.
Superworm
Superworm is a popular children's picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, featuring a heroic worm who helps other animals with his extraordinary abilities.
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E.
Spinario
Spinario is an ancient Roman bronze sculpture depicting a boy removing a thorn from his foot, celebrated for its naturalistic detail and emotional realism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Zerg structure
ⓘ
anti-air defense ⓘ detector unit ⓘ static defense structure ⓘ |
| alsoInExpansion |
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
ⓘ
StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void ⓘ |
| appearsIn | StarCraft II ⓘ |
| attackType | ranged anti-air attack ⓘ |
| belongsToUniverse |
StarCraft universe
ⓘ
linked to:
StarCraft
|
| canAttack |
air units
ⓘ
biological air units ⓘ mechanical air units ⓘ |
| canMoveWhileUprooted | true ⓘ |
| canUproot | true ⓘ |
| category |
StarCraft II Zerg building
ⓘ
StarCraft II defensive structure ⓘ |
| costsMinerals | 75 ⓘ |
| costsVespene | 0 ⓘ |
| counteredBy |
long-range siege units
ⓘ
spellcasters that disable structures ⓘ |
| detectionRadius | standard detector radius (varies by balance patch) ⓘ |
| detects |
burrowed units
ⓘ
cloaked units ⓘ |
| developedBy | Blizzard Entertainment ⓘ |
| faction | Zerg ⓘ |
| game |
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
ⓘ
linked to:
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty campaign
|
| gameMode | multiplayer ⓘ |
| hasArmorType |
Armored
ⓘ
Structure ⓘ |
| hasAttackRestriction | cannot attack ground units ⓘ |
| hotkey | default hotkey varies by keyboard layout ⓘ |
| isDetector | true ⓘ |
| isStaticDefense | true ⓘ |
| morphsFrom | Drone ⓘ |
| mustRootToAttack | true ⓘ |
| mustRootToDetect | true ⓘ |
| primaryRole | anti-air defense ⓘ |
| producedBy | Zerg player ⓘ |
| provides | detection ⓘ |
| race | Zerg ⓘ |
| requires |
Spawning Pool
ⓘ
Spore Crawler tech requirement may vary by patch ⓘ |
| secondaryRole | detection ⓘ |
| supplyCost | 0 ⓘ |
| targetableBy |
air attacks
ⓘ
ground attacks ⓘ |
| usedFor |
defense against cloaked units
ⓘ
defense against early air harassment ⓘ map vision via detection ⓘ |
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: Spore Crawler Description of subject: The Spore Crawler is a Zerg static defense structure in StarCraft II that provides anti-air and detection capabilities against enemy air units and cloaked threats.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.