Vorbis
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Vorbis is a fanatical and manipulative high priest and inquisitor who serves as the primary antagonist in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel "Small Gods."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vorbis canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6796286 — 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: Vorbis Context triple: [Small Gods, featuresCharacter, Vorbis]
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A.
Speex
Speex is an open-source, patent-free audio compression codec designed primarily for efficient, high-quality speech encoding.
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B.
OGG
OGG is the IATA airport code for Kahului Airport, the primary commercial airport serving the island of Maui in Hawaii.
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C.
MPEG-1 Layer II audio
MPEG-1 Layer II audio is a lossy audio compression format widely used in digital broadcasting and early digital media for efficient, good-quality stereo sound.
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D.
Matroska
Matroska is an open standard, extensible multimedia container format best known for its MKV files that can hold multiple video, audio, subtitle, and metadata streams in a single package.
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E.
FLAC
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an open-source audio compression format that reduces file size without any loss in sound quality, commonly used for high-fidelity music archiving and playback.
- 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: Vorbis Target entity description: Vorbis is a fanatical and manipulative high priest and inquisitor who serves as the primary antagonist in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel "Small Gods."
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A.
Speex
Speex is an open-source, patent-free audio compression codec designed primarily for efficient, high-quality speech encoding.
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B.
Cinepak
Cinepak is an early video compression codec widely used in the 1990s for CD-ROM and multimedia applications due to its ability to play smoothly on low-powered hardware.
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C.
OGG
OGG is the IATA airport code for Kahului Airport, the primary commercial airport serving the island of Maui in Hawaii.
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D.
MPEG-1 Layer II audio
MPEG-1 Layer II audio is a lossy audio compression format widely used in digital broadcasting and early digital media for efficient, good-quality stereo sound.
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E.
Matroska
Matroska is an open standard, extensible multimedia container format best known for its MKV files that can hold multiple video, audio, subtitle, and metadata streams in a single package.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Discworld character
ⓘ
antagonist ⓘ fictional character ⓘ high priest ⓘ inquisitor ⓘ |
| allegiance | the Church of Om ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Small Gods ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | Discworld ⓘ |
| basedIn | Omnia ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed by Brutha (accidental push under a cart) ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
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authoritarian ⓘ calculating ⓘ cold ⓘ fanatical ⓘ manipulative ⓘ ruthless ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Brutha
ⓘ
the god Om ⓘ
linked to:
Brahman
|
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Terry Pratchett ⓘ |
| diesIn | Small Gods ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Small Gods ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | comic fantasy ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| leadsOrganization | the Omnian Quisition ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| motive |
consolidation of personal power
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expansion of Omnian faith ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
critique of religious extremism
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embodiment of institutional cruelty ⓘ |
| notableFor |
attempted conquest of Ephebe
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political manipulation ⓘ religious persecution ⓘ torture of heretics ⓘ |
| occupation |
head of the Quisition
ⓘ
high priest of Om ⓘ |
| posthumousAppearance | the desert afterlife in Small Gods ⓘ |
| religion | Omnianism ⓘ |
| roleInWork | primary antagonist of Small Gods ⓘ |
| setting |
the Discworld
ⓘ
linked to:
Discworld
|
| symbolizes |
abuse of religious authority
ⓘ
fanatical dogmatism ⓘ |
| usesTitle | Exquisitor ⓘ |
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: Vorbis Description of subject: Vorbis is a fanatical and manipulative high priest and inquisitor who serves as the primary antagonist in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel "Small Gods."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.