Horde
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The Horde is one of the two major playable political and military alliances in the World of Warcraft universe, traditionally composed of orcs, trolls, tauren, undead, and other races united by survival and honor.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Horde canonical | 26 |
| Orcish Horde | 3 |
| Alliance vs Horde | 2 |
| New Horde | 2 |
| Horde (as a faction in various wars) | 1 |
| Horde (founding generation) | 1 |
| Horde council | 1 |
| the Horde (various periods) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2495903 — 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: Horde Context triple: [World of Warcraft, faction, Horde]
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A.
The Horde
The Horde is a 1994 action-strategy video game that blends resource management with hack-and-slash gameplay, originally released for platforms like the 3DO and PC.
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B.
Barbarians
Barbarians is a historical book by Terry Jones that challenges traditional Roman-centric views by reexamining and often rehabilitating the image of so-called "barbarian" cultures.
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C.
Barbarians
The Barbarians are a famous invitational rugby union team known for their attacking style of play and tradition of selecting players from multiple countries.
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D.
Grimus
Grimus is Salman Rushdie’s debut novel, a genre-blending work of science fiction and fantasy that explores themes of identity, immortality, and exile.
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E.
Gilaks
The Gilaks are an Iranian ethnic group native to Iran’s northern Caspian Sea region, particularly Gilan Province, with their own distinct language and cultural traditions.
- 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: Horde Target entity description: The Horde is one of the two major playable political and military alliances in the World of Warcraft universe, traditionally composed of orcs, trolls, tauren, undead, and other races united by survival and honor.
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A.
The Horde
The Horde is a 1994 action-strategy video game that blends resource management with hack-and-slash gameplay, originally released for platforms like the 3DO and PC.
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B.
Barbarians
Barbarians is a historical book by Terry Jones that challenges traditional Roman-centric views by reexamining and often rehabilitating the image of so-called "barbarian" cultures.
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C.
Barbarians
The Barbarians are a famous invitational rugby union team known for their attacking style of play and tradition of selecting players from multiple countries.
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D.
Grimus
Grimus is Salman Rushdie’s debut novel, a genre-blending work of science fiction and fantasy that explores themes of identity, immortality, and exile.
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E.
Gilaks
The Gilaks are an Iranian ethnic group native to Iran’s northern Caspian Sea region, particularly Gilan Province, with their own distinct language and cultural traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Horde Description of subject: The Horde is one of the two major playable political and military alliances in the World of Warcraft universe, traditionally composed of orcs, trolls, tauren, undead, and other races united by survival and honor.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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