Ice Bros.
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Ice Bros. are a type of Hammer Bro enemy in the Mario series that attack by throwing ice balls to freeze the player.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ice Bros. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13120191 — 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 Bros. Context triple: [Ice Land, hasEnemyType, Ice Bros.]
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A.
Bros
Bros is a 2022 romantic comedy film notable as one of the first major studio gay rom-coms with an openly LGBTQ principal cast.
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B.
Bloc B
Bloc B is one of the main buildings within the Résidence Palace complex in Brussels, housing key European Union institutional facilities.
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C.
Ying Yang Twins
Ying Yang Twins are an American hip hop duo from Atlanta known for their crunk and club-oriented party anthems in the early 2000s.
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D.
Les Kiss
Les Kiss is an Australian rugby union coach and former player known for his roles with various professional teams and national sides, including the Queensland Reds.
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E.
Broteas
Broteas is a figure in Greek mythology, known as a son of Tantalus and brother of Pelops, sometimes associated with early cults of Artemis and a tragic, possibly self-destructive fate.
- 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 Bros. Target entity description: Ice Bros. are a type of Hammer Bro enemy in the Mario series that attack by throwing ice balls to freeze the player.
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A.
Bros
Bros is a 2022 romantic comedy film notable as one of the first major studio gay rom-coms with an openly LGBTQ principal cast.
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B.
Bloc B
Bloc B is one of the main buildings within the Résidence Palace complex in Brussels, housing key European Union institutional facilities.
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C.
Ying Yang Twins
Ying Yang Twins are an American hip hop duo from Atlanta known for their crunk and club-oriented party anthems in the early 2000s.
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D.
Les Kiss
Les Kiss is an Australian rugby union coach and former player known for his roles with various professional teams and national sides, including the Queensland Reds.
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E.
Broteas
Broteas is a figure in Greek mythology, known as a son of Tantalus and brother of Pelops, sometimes associated with early cults of Artemis and a tragic, possibly self-destructive fate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hammer Bro variant
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enemy type ⓘ fictional character species ⓘ |
| alignment | villain ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam
NERFINISHED
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Mario Kart Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ Mario Party series NERFINISHED ⓘ Mario series NERFINISHED ⓘ New Super Luigi U NERFINISHED ⓘ New Super Mario Bros. U NERFINISHED ⓘ New Super Mario Bros. Wii NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Mario 3D Land NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Mario 3D World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attackType | ranged projectile ⓘ |
| basedOn | Hammer Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canBeDefeatedBy |
Koopa shell
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fireball ⓘ jump attack ⓘ |
| colorScheme |
light blue armor
ⓘ
white armor ⓘ |
| controlledBy |
Bowser
NERFINISHED
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Bowser Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| element | ice ⓘ |
| enemyOf | Mushroom Kingdom heroes ⓘ |
| fightsAgainst |
Luigi
NERFINISHED
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Mario NERFINISHED ⓘ player character ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | New Super Mario Bros. Wii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | Super Mario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gameplayEffect | freezes player in ice block ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
freeze opponents
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throw ice balls ⓘ |
| movementStyle |
jumping
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walking ⓘ |
| platform |
Nintendo 3DS
NERFINISHED
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Nintendo Switch ⓘ Nintendo Wii NERFINISHED ⓘ Nintendo Wii U NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | standard enemy ⓘ |
| similarTo |
Boomerang Bros.
NERFINISHED
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Fire Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species | Koopa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subtypeOf |
Hammer Bros.
NERFINISHED
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Koopa Troopa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| universe | Mushroom Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weapon | ice ball ⓘ |
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 Bros. Description of subject: Ice Bros. are a type of Hammer Bro enemy in the Mario series that attack by throwing ice balls to freeze the player.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.