Koopa Troopa
E228541
Koopa Troopa is a turtle-like enemy species from Nintendo’s Mario series, known for retreating into its shell when jumped on and often serving as a basic, recurring foe throughout the games.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Koopa Troopa canonical | 31 |
| Koopa | 15 |
| Koopa Troopas | 4 |
| Koopa Paratroopa | 2 |
| Koopa (disguised as Mario) | 1 |
| Paratroopa | 1 |
| Skeletal Koopa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2062126 — 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: Koopa Troopa Context triple: [Koops, species, Koopa Troopa]
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A.
Bowser
Bowser is the iconic fire-breathing, turtle-like villain from Nintendo’s Super Mario series, known as Mario’s arch-nemesis and the king of the Koopas.
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B.
Toad
Toad is a loyal, mushroom-capped resident of the Mushroom Kingdom in the Super Mario franchise, known for assisting Mario and his friends on their adventures.
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C.
Yoshi
Yoshi is a friendly, dinosaur-like character from Nintendo’s Mario franchise, known for his long tongue, egg-throwing abilities, and frequent role as Mario’s companion and steed.
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D.
Kamek
Kamek is a recurring Magikoopa villain in the Mario franchise, typically depicted as Bowser’s magical advisor and caretaker who uses powerful spells to hinder Mario and his allies.
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E.
Wario
Wario is a greedy, mischievous antihero in Nintendo’s Mario franchise, known for his brutish strength, distinctive yellow and purple outfit, and starring role in the Wario Land and WarioWare game series.
- 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: Koopa Troopa Target entity description: Koopa Troopa is a turtle-like enemy species from Nintendo’s Mario series, known for retreating into its shell when jumped on and often serving as a basic, recurring foe throughout the games.
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A.
Bowser
Bowser is the iconic fire-breathing, turtle-like villain from Nintendo’s Super Mario series, known as Mario’s arch-nemesis and the king of the Koopas.
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B.
Toad
Toad is a loyal, mushroom-capped resident of the Mushroom Kingdom in the Super Mario franchise, known for assisting Mario and his friends on their adventures.
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C.
Yoshi
Yoshi is a friendly, dinosaur-like character from Nintendo’s Mario franchise, known for his long tongue, egg-throwing abilities, and frequent role as Mario’s companion and steed.
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D.
Kamek
Kamek is a recurring Magikoopa villain in the Mario franchise, typically depicted as Bowser’s magical advisor and caretaker who uses powerful spells to hinder Mario and his allies.
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E.
Wario
Wario is a greedy, mischievous antihero in Nintendo’s Mario franchise, known for his brutish strength, distinctive yellow and purple outfit, and starring role in the Wario Land and WarioWare game series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mario character
ⓘ
fictional species ⓘ turtle-like creature ⓘ video game enemy ⓘ |
| alignment | usually allied with Bowser ⓘ |
| appearsInFranchise |
Mario & Luigi
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Mario Kart ⓘ Mario Party ⓘ Paper Mario ⓘ Super Mario series ⓘ
surface form:
Super Mario
|
| appearsInGame |
New Super Mario Bros.
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Super Mario 3D World ⓘ Super Mario Bros. 3 ⓘ Super Mario World ⓘ |
| associatedItem | Koopa shell ⓘ |
| behavior | retreats into shell when jumped on ⓘ |
| bodyColorVariant |
blue
ⓘ
green ⓘ red ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| canBeDefeatedBy |
fireball
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invincibility star ⓘ jump ⓘ |
| creator | Nintendo ⓘ |
| designFeature |
beaked mouth
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bipedal stance ⓘ large shell on back ⓘ three-fingered hands ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Super Mario Bros. ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| gameMechanic | shell can be kicked as projectile ⓘ |
| hasSubspecies |
Dry Bones
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Koopa Troopa self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Paratroopa
|
| homeUniverse | Mushroom Kingdom ⓘ |
| leader | Bowser ⓘ |
| movementPattern |
green Koopas walk off ledges
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red Koopas turn around at ledges ⓘ |
| playableInGame |
Mario Golf
ⓘ
surface form:
Mario Golf series
Mario Kart ⓘ
surface form:
Mario Kart series
Mario Party ⓘ
surface form:
Mario Party series
Mario Tennis ⓘ
surface form:
Mario Tennis series
|
| recurringGameElement |
platforming obstacle
ⓘ
projectile source via shell ⓘ |
| shellColorVariant |
blue shell
ⓘ
green shell ⓘ red shell ⓘ yellow shell ⓘ |
| speciesType |
Koopa Troopa
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Koopa
|
| typicalRole |
basic enemy
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recurring foe ⓘ |
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: Koopa Troopa Description of subject: Koopa Troopa is a turtle-like enemy species from Nintendo’s Mario series, known for retreating into its shell when jumped on and often serving as a basic, recurring foe throughout the games.
Referenced by (55)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Koopa Troopas
this entity surface form:
Koopa Paratroopa