Arda
E261156
Arda is the fictional world created by J.R.R. Tolkien that encompasses Middle-earth and other lands within his legendarium.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arda canonical | 156 |
| Khazad-dûm | 2 |
| the world of Arda | 2 |
| world of Arda | 2 |
| Belegost | 1 |
| Middle-earth (continent) | 1 |
| Outer Seas of Arda | 1 |
| The Kingdom of Arda | 1 |
| continent of Beleriand | 1 |
| the Kingdom of Arda | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2369237 — 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: Arda Context triple: [Middle-earth, partOf, Arda]
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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.
Bel Arvardan
Bel Arvardan is a Galactic archaeologist and central protagonist in Isaac Asimov's science fiction novel "Pebble in the Sky."
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C.
Valinor
Valinor is the blessed, undying realm across the sea in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, home of the Valar and the immortal Elves.
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D.
Mordor
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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E.
Morath
Morath is the surname of Inge Morath, the renowned Austrian-born Magnum photographer celebrated for her humanistic and poetic documentary work.
- 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: Arda Target entity description: Arda is the fictional world created by J.R.R. Tolkien that encompasses Middle-earth and other lands within his legendarium.
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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.
Bel Arvardan
Bel Arvardan is a Galactic archaeologist and central protagonist in Isaac Asimov's science fiction novel "Pebble in the Sky."
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C.
Valinor
Valinor is the blessed, undying realm across the sea in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, home of the Valar and the immortal Elves.
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D.
Mordor
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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E.
Morath
Morath is the surname of Inge Morath, the renowned Austrian-born Magnum photographer celebrated for her humanistic and poetic documentary work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Arda Description of subject: Arda is the fictional world created by J.R.R. Tolkien that encompasses Middle-earth and other lands within his legendarium.
Referenced by (168)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Arda
linked to: Arda
linked to: Arda
linked to: Arda
subject linked to:
guardians of Middle-earth
subject linked to:
guardians of Middle-earth
linked to: Arda
subject linked to:
guardians of Middle-earth