First Age
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The First Age is the earliest great era in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, marked by the wars against Morgoth and the heroic tales recounted in The Silmarillion.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| First Age canonical | 161 |
| First Age of Middle-earth | 29 |
| First Age of the Sun | 3 |
| First Age Middle-earth | 2 |
| First Age (early events) | 1 |
| First Age (in early parts) | 1 |
| First Age (in-universe) | 1 |
| First Age of Middle-earth (internal history) | 1 |
| The First Age | 1 |
| the First Age | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2369286 — 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: First Age Context triple: [Middle-earth, hasAge, First Age]
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A.
Heroic Age
The Heroic Age is a legendary period in Greek mythology characterized by the exploits of great heroes such as Heracles, Perseus, and the warriors of the Trojan War.
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B.
Dark Ages
The Dark Ages is a historical term, now largely outdated, that refers to the early medieval period in Europe, traditionally characterized as a time of cultural and economic decline following the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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C.
The Golden Age
The Golden Age is the original title of the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ religious magazine that was later renamed Awake!.
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D.
The Golden Age
The Golden Age is a nostalgic collection of semi-autobiographical childhood essays by British author Kenneth Grahame, celebrating the imaginative inner world of children in a Victorian setting.
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E.
Orosirian Period
The Orosirian Period is a division of early Earth's history marked by significant crustal stabilization, widespread orogeny, and major impact events roughly 2.05 to 1.8 billion years ago.
- 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: First Age Target entity description: The First Age is the earliest great era in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, marked by the wars against Morgoth and the heroic tales recounted in The Silmarillion.
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A.
Heroic Age
The Heroic Age is a legendary period in Greek mythology characterized by the exploits of great heroes such as Heracles, Perseus, and the warriors of the Trojan War.
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B.
Dark Ages
The Dark Ages is a historical term, now largely outdated, that refers to the early medieval period in Europe, traditionally characterized as a time of cultural and economic decline following the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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C.
The Golden Age
The Golden Age is a nostalgic collection of semi-autobiographical childhood essays by British author Kenneth Grahame, celebrating the imaginative inner world of children in a Victorian setting.
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D.
The Golden Age
The Golden Age is the original title of the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ religious magazine that was later renamed Awake!.
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E.
Orosirian Period
The Orosirian Period is a division of early Earth's history marked by significant crustal stabilization, widespread orogeny, and major impact events roughly 2.05 to 1.8 billion years ago.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (79)
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: First Age Description of subject: The First Age is the earliest great era in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, marked by the wars against Morgoth and the heroic tales recounted in The Silmarillion.
Referenced by (201)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: First Age
subject linked to:
Narsil (reforged as Andúril)
linked to: First Age
subject linked to:
Men
linked to: First Age
linked to: First Age
linked to: First Age
linked to: First Age
subject linked to:
the Eldar
subject linked to:
the Calacirya
subject linked to:
the Noldor