Piranha Plant
E311693
Piranha Plant is a recurring carnivorous plant enemy in the Super Mario series, typically emerging from pipes to bite at passing characters.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Piranha Plant canonical | 17 |
| Fire Piranha Plant | 1 |
| Giant Piranha Plant | 1 |
| Piranha Creeper | 1 |
| Prickly Piranha Plant | 1 |
| White Piranha Plant | 1 |
| giant Piranha Plant | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2934691 — 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: Piranha Plant Context triple: [Super Mario Bros. 3, enemy, Piranha Plant]
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A.
Drymaea
Drymaea was an ancient Greek city-state located in the region of Phocis, known from classical historical and geographical accounts.
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B.
Aldrovanda
Aldrovanda is a genus of aquatic carnivorous plants, commonly known as waterwheel plants, that capture small aquatic organisms using snap-trap mechanisms.
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C.
Amorphophallus titanum
Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower, is a Sumatran plant famous for producing one of the world’s largest and foul-smelling inflorescences.
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D.
Lilaea
Lilaea was an ancient Greek city in the region of Phocis, known from classical sources and associated with the worship of the nymph Lilaia.
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E.
Nothotsuga
Nothotsuga is a small genus of coniferous trees in the family Pinaceae, closely related to hemlocks and native to parts of Asia.
- 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: Piranha Plant Target entity description: Piranha Plant is a recurring carnivorous plant enemy in the Super Mario series, typically emerging from pipes to bite at passing characters.
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A.
Drymaea
Drymaea was an ancient Greek city-state located in the region of Phocis, known from classical historical and geographical accounts.
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B.
Aldrovanda
Aldrovanda is a genus of aquatic carnivorous plants, commonly known as waterwheel plants, that capture small aquatic organisms using snap-trap mechanisms.
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C.
Amorphophallus titanum
Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower, is a Sumatran plant famous for producing one of the world’s largest and foul-smelling inflorescences.
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D.
Lilaea
Lilaea was an ancient Greek city in the region of Phocis, known from classical sources and associated with the worship of the nymph Lilaia.
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E.
Nothotsuga
Nothotsuga is a small genus of coniferous trees in the family Pinaceae, closely related to hemlocks and native to parts of Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Super Mario character
ⓘ
fictional plant species ⓘ video game enemy ⓘ |
| alignment | villain ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
New Super Mario Bros. U
ⓘ
Super Mario 3D World ⓘ Super Mario Bros. 3 ⓘ Super Mario World ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries |
Mario Kart
ⓘ
Mario Party ⓘ Super Mario series ⓘ
surface form:
Super Mario
Super Smash Bros. ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Bowser ⓘ |
| attackMethod |
biting
ⓘ
lunging from pipes ⓘ |
| creator | Nintendo ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Luigi
ⓘ
Mario ⓘ Princess Peach ⓘ Yoshi ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Super Mario series
ⓘ
surface form:
Super Mario
|
| firstAppearance | Super Mario Bros. ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| gameplayRole |
hazard
ⓘ
obstacle ⓘ |
| iconicStatus | recurring Mario enemy ⓘ |
| notableVariant |
Piranha Plant
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Fire Piranha Plant
Jumping Piranha Plant ⓘ Muncher ⓘ Naval Piranha ⓘ Nipper Plant ⓘ Piranha Plant self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Piranha Creeper
Piranha Plant self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Prickly Piranha Plant
Ptooie ⓘ |
| playableIn |
Super Smash Bros.
ⓘ
surface form:
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
|
| playableRole | downloadable fighter ⓘ |
| smashFightingStyle |
uses long-range bites
ⓘ
uses poison breath ⓘ uses spiked ball projectiles ⓘ |
| smashUniverse | Mario ⓘ |
| speciesType | carnivorous plant ⓘ |
| typicalColor |
green stem
ⓘ
red head ⓘ |
| typicalHabitat |
Warp Pipes
ⓘ
castles ⓘ underground areas ⓘ |
| typicalPattern | white spots ⓘ |
| weakness |
fireballs
ⓘ
jump attacks in some games ⓘ |
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: Piranha Plant Description of subject: Piranha Plant is a recurring carnivorous plant enemy in the Super Mario series, typically emerging from pipes to bite at passing characters.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Super Mario
this entity surface form:
Fire Piranha Plant
this entity surface form:
Piranha Creeper
this entity surface form:
Prickly Piranha Plant
this entity surface form:
giant Piranha Plant
this entity surface form:
White Piranha Plant
subject surface form:
Kuribo’s Shoe
this entity surface form:
Giant Piranha Plant