Freki
E250352
Freki is one of the two legendary wolves who accompany the Norse god Odin in mythology.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2282852 — 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: Freki Context triple: [Odin, animalCompanion, Freki]
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A.
Quatchi
Quatchi is a sasquatch character who served as one of the official mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
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B.
Frey
Frey is the central protagonist of the game Elysium, around whom the story’s main events and character development revolve.
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C.
Hestur
Hestur is a small, sparsely populated island in the central Faroe Islands known for its steep cliffs, birdlife, and traditional Faroese landscape.
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D.
Rigmor
Rigmor is a feminine given name of Scandinavian origin, particularly used in Norway and Denmark.
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E.
Poike
Poike is one of the three main extinct volcanic cones that form the triangular shape of Easter Island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.
- 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: Freki Target entity description: Freki is one of the two legendary wolves who accompany the Norse god Odin in mythology.
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A.
Quatchi
Quatchi is a sasquatch character who served as one of the official mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
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B.
Frey
Frey is the central protagonist of the game Elysium, around whom the story’s main events and character development revolve.
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C.
Hestur
Hestur is a small, sparsely populated island in the central Faroe Islands known for its steep cliffs, birdlife, and traditional Faroese landscape.
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D.
Rigmor
Rigmor is a feminine given name of Scandinavian origin, particularly used in Norway and Denmark.
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E.
Poike
Poike is one of the three main extinct volcanic cones that form the triangular shape of Easter Island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Norse mythology
ⓘ
legendary creature ⓘ mythological wolf ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Poetic Edda
ⓘ
Prose Edda ⓘ |
| appearsInArtAs | wolf at Odin's side ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Valhalla
ⓘ
battle ⓘ death ⓘ ravens Huginn and Muninn ⓘ
linked to:
Muninn
war ⓘ Æsir ⓘ
linked to:
Aesir
|
| belongsToPantheon |
Norse pantheon
ⓘ
linked to:
Aesir
|
| category |
Mythological canines
ⓘ
Odin ⓘ Wolves in Norse mythology ⓘ |
| companionOf | Odin ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Huginn and Muninn
ⓘ
linked to:
Muninn
|
| cosmologicalLocation | Asgard ⓘ |
| culture | Norse ⓘ |
| eatsFoodGivenBy | Odin ⓘ |
| feedsOn | meat from Odin's table ⓘ |
| hasCompanionRole | follows Odin into battle ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| iconographicAttributeOf | Odin ⓘ |
| keptAt | Valhalla ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
Old Norse
ⓘ
linked to:
Old Norse language
|
| literarySource |
Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda
ⓘ
linked to:
Prose Edda
|
| mentionedIn | Grímnismál ⓘ |
| mythology | Norse mythology ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | "the ravenous one" ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | emphasizes Odin's connection to beasts of battle ⓘ |
| oneOf | Odin's two wolves ⓘ |
| partnerOf | Geri ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin | Scandinavia ⓘ |
| relatedMythicAnimal |
Fenrir
ⓘ
Geri ⓘ Hati ⓘ Sköll ⓘ |
| religion | Germanic paganism ⓘ |
| role |
attendant of Odin
ⓘ
guardian in Odin's retinue ⓘ |
| species | wolf ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
Odin's ferocity
ⓘ
warrior hunger for battle ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfMyths | Viking Age ⓘ |
| typeOfCompanion | animal companion ⓘ |
| worshipContext | veneration of Odin ⓘ |
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: Freki Description of subject: Freki is one of the two legendary wolves who accompany the Norse god Odin in mythology.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Freki
subject linked to:
"the ravenous one"
subject linked to:
"the ravenous one"
subject linked to:
"the ravenous one"
subject linked to:
Wolves in Norse mythology