Company of Thorin
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The Company of Thorin is the band of dwarves and their companions led by Thorin Oakenshield on the quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and its treasure in J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit."
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thorin and Company | 15 |
| Company of Thorin Oakenshield | 2 |
| Company of Thorin canonical | 1 |
| Dwarves of Thorin Oakenshield | 1 |
| Thorin Oakenshield's company | 1 |
| Thorin's company | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1964116 — 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: Company of Thorin Context triple: [Smaug, enemyOf, Company of Thorin]
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A.
Thorin Oakenshield
Thorin Oakenshield is a proud and determined Dwarf leader from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, best known for leading the quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and its treasure from the dragon Smaug.
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B.
knights of the shire
Knights of the shire were elected county representatives in the English medieval and early modern Parliament, typically drawn from the local gentry.
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Gimli
Gimli is a stout and valiant Dwarf warrior and member of the Fellowship of the Ring in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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D.
Bilbo Baggins
Bilbo Baggins is a humble hobbit from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium who becomes an unlikely adventurer and key figure in the quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain.
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E.
Smaug
Smaug is the powerful, treasure-hoarding dragon and primary antagonist in J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel "The Hobbit."
- 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: Company of Thorin Target entity description: The Company of Thorin is the band of dwarves and their companions led by Thorin Oakenshield on the quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and its treasure in J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit."
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A.
Thorin Oakenshield
Thorin Oakenshield is a proud and determined Dwarf leader from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, best known for leading the quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and its treasure from the dragon Smaug.
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B.
knights of the shire
Knights of the shire were elected county representatives in the English medieval and early modern Parliament, typically drawn from the local gentry.
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C.
Gimli
Gimli is a stout and valiant Dwarf warrior and member of the Fellowship of the Ring in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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D.
Bilbo Baggins
Bilbo Baggins is a humble hobbit from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium who becomes an unlikely adventurer and key figure in the quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain.
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E.
Smaug
Smaug is the powerful, treasure-hoarding dragon and primary antagonist in J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel "The Hobbit."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Company of Thorin Description of subject: The Company of Thorin is the band of dwarves and their companions led by Thorin Oakenshield on the quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and its treasure in J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit."
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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