Wither Skeleton
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The Wither Skeleton is a tall, dark, hostile undead mob in Minecraft’s Nether that wields stone swords and can inflict the wither status effect on players.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wither Skeleton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2557112 — 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: Wither Skeleton Context triple: [Minecraft, hasMob, Wither Skeleton]
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A.
Skullcrawlers
Skullcrawlers are monstrous, subterranean reptilian predators from the MonsterVerse franchise, best known as the primary antagonistic creatures that inhabit Skull Island and battle King Kong.
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B.
Wraith
Wraith is a horror comic series by Joe Hill that expands on the sinister world and characters of his novel "NOS4A2."
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C.
Snowgies
Snowgies are tiny mischievous snowmen-like creatures spawned from Elsa’s sneezes in Disney’s Frozen franchise.
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D.
Nether Booth
Nether Booth is a small rural hamlet in the Peak District of Derbyshire, England, known for its scenic valley setting near Edale and popular walking routes.
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E.
Tarasque
The Tarasque is a legendary dragon-like monster from Provençal folklore, famously tamed by Saint Martha and associated with the town of Tarascon in southern France.
- 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: Wither Skeleton Target entity description: The Wither Skeleton is a tall, dark, hostile undead mob in Minecraft’s Nether that wields stone swords and can inflict the wither status effect on players.
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A.
Skullcrawlers
Skullcrawlers are monstrous, subterranean reptilian predators from the MonsterVerse franchise, best known as the primary antagonistic creatures that inhabit Skull Island and battle King Kong.
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B.
Wraith
Wraith is a horror comic series by Joe Hill that expands on the sinister world and characters of his novel "NOS4A2."
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C.
Snowgies
Snowgies are tiny mischievous snowmen-like creatures spawned from Elsa’s sneezes in Disney’s Frozen franchise.
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D.
Nether Booth
Nether Booth is a small rural hamlet in the Peak District of Derbyshire, England, known for its scenic valley setting near Edale and popular walking routes.
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E.
Tarasque
The Tarasque is a legendary dragon-like monster from Provençal folklore, famously tamed by Saint Martha and associated with the town of Tarascon in southern France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hostile mob
ⓘ
Minecraft entity ⓘ Nether mob ⓘ Undead mob ⓘ |
| aiBehavior |
melee attack
ⓘ
pursues players ⓘ targets iron golems ⓘ targets piglins ⓘ wanders when no target ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Minecraft ⓘ |
| attackDamage |
12 on Hard difficulty
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5 on Easy difficulty ⓘ 8 on Normal difficulty ⓘ |
| biomeRestriction | Nether-only in survival ⓘ |
| burnsInDaylight | false ⓘ |
| canRide | strider (via commands or special cases) ⓘ |
| canSpawnFrom | monster spawner ⓘ |
| color | dark gray ⓘ |
| dimension | Nether ⓘ |
| drops |
bones
ⓘ
coal ⓘ stone sword ⓘ |
| experienceDropped | 5 experience orbs ⓘ |
| family | Skeleton ⓘ |
| fireImmunity | true ⓘ |
| firstAppearedInVersion | Minecraft 1.4.2 ⓘ |
| gameModeAvailability | all game modes ⓘ |
| healthPoints | 20 ⓘ |
| height | 2.4 blocks ⓘ |
| immuneTo | instant health potions ⓘ |
| lavaImmunity | true ⓘ |
| movementSpeed | 0.25 ⓘ |
| rareDrop |
Wither Skeleton Skull
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enchanted stone sword ⓘ |
| skullUsage | placed on soul sand or soul soil to spawn Wither ⓘ |
| soundCategory | skeleton ⓘ |
| spawnCondition |
low light level
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on nether brick blocks ⓘ within Nether fortress bounding box ⓘ |
| spawnLocation | Nether fortress ⓘ |
| statusEffectDurationOnPlayer |
10 seconds on Normal difficulty
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15 seconds on Hard difficulty ⓘ |
| statusEffectInflicted | Wither ⓘ |
| statusEffectType | damage over time ⓘ |
| takesExtraDamageFrom | smite enchantment ⓘ |
| undeadCategory | skeleton variant ⓘ |
| usedToSummon | Wither boss ⓘ |
| weapon | stone sword ⓘ |
| width | 0.7 blocks ⓘ |
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: Wither Skeleton Description of subject: The Wither Skeleton is a tall, dark, hostile undead mob in Minecraft’s Nether that wields stone swords and can inflict the wither status effect on players.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.