Sound Barrier
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Sound Barrier is Lúcio’s powerful ultimate ability in Overwatch that grants nearby allies a massive temporary shield to protect them during critical moments in battle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sound Barrier canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11543270 — 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: Sound Barrier Context triple: [Lúcio, ultimateAbility, Sound Barrier]
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A.
Soundbombing
Soundbombing is a seminal late-1990s hip hop compilation series showcasing underground and alternative rap artists associated with the Rawkus Records label.
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B.
Soundwave
Soundwave is a Decepticon from the Transformers franchise, known for his cold, calculating loyalty to Megatron and his ability to deploy smaller cassette-like minions for espionage and combat.
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C.
Speed of Sound
"Speed of Sound" is a song titled track, likely a rock composition, featured on Pearl Jam’s album *Backspacer*.
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D.
Sound Affects
Sound Affects is a 1980 post-punk and mod revival album by British band The Jam, noted for its sharp social commentary and stylistic blend of punk energy with pop sensibilities.
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E.
Shock Wave
Shock Wave is a classic steel roller coaster at Six Flags Over Texas, best known for its intense double vertical loops and high-speed drops.
- 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: Sound Barrier Target entity description: Sound Barrier is Lúcio’s powerful ultimate ability in Overwatch that grants nearby allies a massive temporary shield to protect them during critical moments in battle.
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A.
Soundbombing
Soundbombing is a seminal late-1990s hip hop compilation series showcasing underground and alternative rap artists associated with the Rawkus Records label.
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B.
Soundwave
Soundwave is a Decepticon from the Transformers franchise, known for his cold, calculating loyalty to Megatron and his ability to deploy smaller cassette-like minions for espionage and combat.
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C.
Speed of Sound
"Speed of Sound" is a song titled track, likely a rock composition, featured on Pearl Jam’s album *Backspacer*.
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D.
Sound Affects
Sound Affects is a 1980 post-punk and mod revival album by British band The Jam, noted for its sharp social commentary and stylistic blend of punk energy with pop sensibilities.
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E.
Shock Wave
Shock Wave is a classic steel roller coaster at Six Flags Over Texas, best known for its intense double vertical loops and high-speed drops.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hero ability
ⓘ
support ability ⓘ ultimate ability ⓘ |
| abilityType |
area-of-effect ability
ⓘ
defensive ultimate ⓘ |
| activationMethod | ultimate charge ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Overwatch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Overwatch 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Lúcio’s music theme ⓘ |
| audioCue | unique voice line from Lúcio ⓘ |
| cooldownType | charge-based, not time-based ⓘ |
| counterplayTo |
enemy teamfight ultimates
GENERATED
ⓘ
high burst damage GENERATED ⓘ |
| designedFor | critical moments in battle ⓘ |
| durationType | temporary ⓘ |
| effectScope | radius around Lúcio ⓘ |
| gameDeveloper | Blizzard Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gameModeAvailability |
Arcade modes
ⓘ
Competitive Play NERFINISHED ⓘ Quick Play ⓘ |
| gamePublisher | Blizzard Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grantsTo | allied heroes ⓘ |
| heroRoleOfUser | Support ⓘ |
| inGameCategory | Ultimate ⓘ |
| introducedIn | base Overwatch release ⓘ |
| isStrongerWhen | used with grouped teammates ⓘ |
| primaryEffect | temporary shields ⓘ |
| requires | line of sight to allies ⓘ |
| resourceType | ultimate meter ⓘ |
| riskFactor | requires close range to allies ⓘ |
| roleInTeam | primary defensive ultimate for Lúcio’s team ⓘ |
| strategicUse |
objective contesting
ⓘ
saving allies at low health ⓘ surviving enemy ultimates ⓘ teamfight engagement ⓘ |
| synergizesWith |
aggressive team engages
ⓘ
dive compositions ⓘ |
| targets | nearby allies ⓘ |
| teamBenefit |
damage mitigation
ⓘ
survivability increase ⓘ |
| usedBy | Lúcio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visualEffect | large soundwave-like barrier ⓘ |
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: Sound Barrier Description of subject: Sound Barrier is Lúcio’s powerful ultimate ability in Overwatch that grants nearby allies a massive temporary shield to protect them during critical moments in battle.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lúcio