Déagol
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Déagol is a minor character in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, a Stoor hobbit whose discovery of the One Ring ultimately leads to Gollum's corruption.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Déagol canonical | 9 |
| Déagol (briefly) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2369506 — 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: Déagol Context triple: [Gollum, kills, Déagol]
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A.
Hyllus
Hyllus is a figure in Greek mythology known as the son of Heracles and Deianira, often associated with the Dorian invasion and the Heracleidae.
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B.
Henreid
Henreid is the surname of Paul Henreid, the Austrian-born actor and director best known for his roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Casablanca" and "Now, Voyager."
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C.
Catreus
Catreus is a figure in Greek mythology, a son of King Minos of Crete whose tragic fate is tied to a prophecy that he would be killed by one of his own children.
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D.
Tain
Tain is a historic town in the Highlands of Scotland, known as one of the country’s oldest royal burghs and a regional administrative and judicial center.
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E.
Giaever
Giaever is a Norwegian surname most notably associated with physicist and Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever.
- 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: Déagol Target entity description: Déagol is a minor character in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, a Stoor hobbit whose discovery of the One Ring ultimately leads to Gollum's corruption.
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A.
Hyllus
Hyllus is a figure in Greek mythology known as the son of Heracles and Deianira, often associated with the Dorian invasion and the Heracleidae.
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B.
Henreid
Henreid is the surname of Paul Henreid, the Austrian-born actor and director best known for his roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Casablanca" and "Now, Voyager."
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C.
Catreus
Catreus is a figure in Greek mythology, a son of King Minos of Crete whose tragic fate is tied to a prophecy that he would be killed by one of his own children.
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D.
Tain
Tain is a historic town in the Highlands of Scotland, known as one of the country’s oldest royal burghs and a regional administrative and judicial center.
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E.
Giaever
Giaever is a Norwegian surname most notably associated with physicist and Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Stoor hobbit
ⓘ
character in The Lord of the Rings ⓘ fictional character ⓘ hobbit ⓘ |
| activity | fishing ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | character in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy ⓘ |
| alignment | morally neutral ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Fellowship of the Ring (appendices)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Lord of the Rings appendices
The Lord of the Rings ⓘ The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (film) ⓘ |
| appearsInSection |
The Lord of the Rings Appendix B (The Tale of Years)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Lord of the Rings appendices
The Lord of the Rings Appendix F (on Hobbits, indirectly) ⓘ
linked to:
The Lord of the Rings appendices
|
| associatedWith |
Anduin River
ⓘ
linked to:
Anduin
Gladden Fields ⓘ One Ring ⓘ
linked to:
The One Ring
|
| causeOfDeath | strangulation ⓘ |
| cousinOf | Sméagol ⓘ |
| creator | J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ |
| culture |
Stoors
ⓘ
linked to:
Stoor
|
| deathPlace | Gladden Fields ⓘ |
| discovers |
One Ring
ⓘ
linked to:
The One Ring
|
| ethnicity | Stoor ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Middle-earth ⓘ |
| findsObject |
One Ring
ⓘ
linked to:
The One Ring
Ruling Ring ⓘ
linked to:
the Ruling Ring
|
| foundRingLocation |
river Anduin
ⓘ
linked to:
Anduin
|
| foundRingRegion | Gladden Fields ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| killedBy | Sméagol ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Westron ⓘ |
| medium |
film adaptation
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| motiveOfKiller | desire for the One Ring ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | Westron ⓘ |
| nationality | Stoors of the Anduin Vale ⓘ |
| notableEvent | murdered on his birthday fishing trip ⓘ |
| occupation | fisherman ⓘ |
| relative | Sméagol ⓘ |
| ringDiscoveryPrecedes | corruption of Sméagol ⓘ |
| species | Hobbit ⓘ |
| storyRole |
catalyst for Sméagol becoming Gollum
ⓘ
original finder of the One Ring among Hobbits after Isildur ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Third Age ⓘ |
| timePeriodEvent | found the One Ring in the Third Age ⓘ |
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: Déagol Description of subject: Déagol is a minor character in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, a Stoor hobbit whose discovery of the One Ring ultimately leads to Gollum's corruption.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Déagol