Ice Bro
E1022803
Ice Bro is an enemy character in the Mario video game series, similar to Hammer Bro but attacking by throwing ice balls that can freeze Mario and other targets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ice Bro canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13119779 — 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: Ice Bro Context triple: [Hammer Bro, hasVariant, Ice Bro]
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A.
Icy Blast
Icy Blast is a cooling, menthol-scented variant of Irish Spring soap designed to provide a refreshing, invigorating clean.
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B.
Ice Blast
Ice Blast is a high-thrill drop tower ride located at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach amusement park in England.
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C.
Ice Cold
Ice Cold is a suspenseful crime thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen featuring medical examiner Maura Isles stranded with a deadly secret in a remote, abandoned Wyoming community.
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D.
Ice
"Ice" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan from her acclaimed 1993 album *Fumbling Towards Ecstasy*.
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E.
Ice
Ice is the massive Valyrian steel greatsword of House Stark, famously wielded by Eddard Stark in the world of "A Song of Ice and Fire" and its TV adaptation "Game of Thrones."
- 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: Ice Bro Target entity description: Ice Bro is an enemy character in the Mario video game series, similar to Hammer Bro but attacking by throwing ice balls that can freeze Mario and other targets.
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A.
Icy Blast
Icy Blast is a cooling, menthol-scented variant of Irish Spring soap designed to provide a refreshing, invigorating clean.
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B.
Ice Blast
Ice Blast is a high-thrill drop tower ride located at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach amusement park in England.
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C.
Ice Cold
Ice Cold is a suspenseful crime thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen featuring medical examiner Maura Isles stranded with a deadly secret in a remote, abandoned Wyoming community.
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D.
Ice
"Ice" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan from her acclaimed 1993 album *Fumbling Towards Ecstasy*.
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E.
Ice
Ice is the massive Valyrian steel greatsword of House Stark, famously wielded by Eddard Stark in the world of "A Song of Ice and Fire" and its TV adaptation "Game of Thrones."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hammer Bro variant
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Koopa ⓘ enemy character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| alignment | villain ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | Super Mario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attackEffect |
freezes Mario
ⓘ
freezes targets ⓘ |
| attackMethod | throws ice balls ⓘ |
| basedOn | Hammer Bro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | Koopa Bros-type enemies ⓘ |
| canImmobilize | player character ⓘ |
| combatStyle | long-range ⓘ |
| controls | ice projectiles ⓘ |
| designedBy | Nintendo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| differentiatedBy |
freezing attacks
ⓘ
uses ice instead of hammers ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Luigi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | Mario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gameplayFunction | obstacle ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
ice manipulation
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projectile throwing ⓘ ranged attacks ⓘ |
| hasElement | ice ⓘ |
| isA | Bro-type Koopa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| origin | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species | Koopa Troopa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| statusEffectInflicted | frozen ⓘ |
| subtypeOf | Hammer Bro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| threatType | status-inflicting enemy ⓘ |
| typicalRole | standard enemy ⓘ |
| universe | Mushroom Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesWeapon | ice balls ⓘ |
| visualSimilarity | Hammer Bro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Ice Bro Description of subject: Ice Bro is an enemy character in the Mario video game series, similar to Hammer Bro but attacking by throwing ice balls that can freeze Mario and other targets.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.