Mordor
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Mordor is the dark, volcanic realm in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth that serves as Sauron's stronghold and the primary source of evil in The Lord of the Rings.
All labels observed (15)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1787809 — 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: Mordor Context triple: [The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, featuresLocation, Mordor]
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Elidor
Elidor is a 1965 fantasy novel by Alan Garner that blends contemporary Manchester with a dark, mythic otherworld entered through a derelict church.
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Morath
Morath is the surname of Inge Morath, the renowned Austrian-born Magnum photographer celebrated for her humanistic and poetic documentary work.
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Svartalfheim
Svartalfheim is the dark, subterranean realm of the dwarves or dark elves in Norse mythology, renowned as the home of master craftsmen and magical smiths.
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Magor
Magor is a large village and community in Monmouthshire, southeast Wales, known for its historic church and proximity to the Severn Estuary and major transport links.
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E.
Mountain of Despair
Mountain of Despair is the large granite mass from which the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial’s central “Stone of Hope” emerges, symbolizing the struggles overcome in the pursuit of civil rights.
- 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: Mordor Target entity description: Mordor is the dark, volcanic realm in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth that serves as Sauron's stronghold and the primary source of evil in The Lord of the Rings.
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A.
Elidor
Elidor is a 1965 fantasy novel by Alan Garner that blends contemporary Manchester with a dark, mythic otherworld entered through a derelict church.
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B.
Morath
Morath is the surname of Inge Morath, the renowned Austrian-born Magnum photographer celebrated for her humanistic and poetic documentary work.
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C.
Svartalfheim
Svartalfheim is the dark, subterranean realm of the dwarves or dark elves in Norse mythology, renowned as the home of master craftsmen and magical smiths.
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D.
Magor
Magor is a large village and community in Monmouthshire, southeast Wales, known for its historic church and proximity to the Severn Estuary and major transport links.
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E.
Mountain of Despair
Mountain of Despair is the large granite mass from which the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial’s central “Stone of Hope” emerges, symbolizing the struggles overcome in the pursuit of civil rights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Mordor Description of subject: Mordor is the dark, volcanic realm in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth that serves as Sauron's stronghold and the primary source of evil in The Lord of the Rings.
Referenced by (174)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Rhun
linked to: Mordor
linked to: Mordor
subject linked to:
Talion in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor