Old English Tīw
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Old English Tīw is the name of the Germanic god of war and the sky, cognate with the Norse god Týr and reflected in the modern English weekday name Tuesday.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old English Tīw canonical | 1 |
| Old English Tīwesdæg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15100532 — 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: Old English Tīw Context triple: [Tiwaz rune, etymologicallyRelatedTo, Old English Tīw]
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A.
Old English
Old English is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken and written in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland roughly between the 5th and 12th centuries.
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B.
Old Saxon
Old Saxon is an early West Germanic language spoken by the Saxons in what is now northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands, best known from texts like the biblical poem Heliand and as an ancestor of Low German.
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C.
Orkney Norn
Orkney Norn was a now-extinct North Germanic language variety once spoken in the Orkney Islands, derived from Old Norse and later replaced by Scots and English.
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D.
Old Norse language
Old Norse was the North Germanic language spoken by the inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements during the Viking Age and is the ancestor of modern Scandinavian languages like Icelandic and Norwegian.
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E.
Old English D
Old English D is the distinctive, gothic-style letter "D" that serves as the iconic emblem of the Detroit Tigers baseball team.
- 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: Old English Tīw Target entity description: Old English Tīw is the name of the Germanic god of war and the sky, cognate with the Norse god Týr and reflected in the modern English weekday name Tuesday.
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A.
Old English
Old English is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken and written in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland roughly between the 5th and 12th centuries.
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B.
Old Saxon
Old Saxon is an early West Germanic language spoken by the Saxons in what is now northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands, best known from texts like the biblical poem Heliand and as an ancestor of Low German.
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C.
Orkney Norn
Orkney Norn was a now-extinct North Germanic language variety once spoken in the Orkney Islands, derived from Old Norse and later replaced by Scots and English.
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D.
Old Norse language
Old Norse was the North Germanic language spoken by the inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements during the Viking Age and is the ancestor of modern Scandinavian languages like Icelandic and Norwegian.
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E.
Old English D
Old English D is the distinctive, gothic-style letter "D" that serves as the iconic emblem of the Detroit Tigers baseball team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
the Tiwaz rune
linked to: Old English Tīw