Stoick the Vast
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Stoick the Vast is the burly, strong-willed Viking chief and father of Hiccup in the "How to Train Your Dragon" franchise.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stoick the Vast canonical | 15 |
| Stoick Haddock | 1 |
| Stoick the Vast (book character) | 1 |
| Stoick the Vast, Chief of Berk | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8072310 — 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: Stoick the Vast Context triple: [Gerard Butler, characterPortrayed, Stoick the Vast]
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A.
Ragnar
Ragnar is a masculine given name of Old Norse origin, historically associated with Viking-age Scandinavia and later borne by various notable figures.
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B.
Odin
Odin is the chief god in Norse mythology, associated with wisdom, war, poetry, and magic, and revered as the ruler of Asgard and the Aesir gods.
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C.
Halfdan Ragnarsson
Halfdan Ragnarsson was a 9th-century Viking warlord, traditionally identified as one of the sons of Ragnar Lothbrok, who played a major role in the Norse invasions and political upheavals in England.
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D.
Jarl
Jarl is a masculine given name of Scandinavian origin, historically associated with nobility and leadership.
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E.
Haak’u
Haak’u is the traditional Keresan-language name for Acoma Pueblo, a Native American community in New Mexico renowned for its ancient mesa-top village and cultural heritage.
- 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: Stoick the Vast Target entity description: Stoick the Vast is the burly, strong-willed Viking chief and father of Hiccup in the "How to Train Your Dragon" franchise.
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A.
Ragnar
Ragnar is a masculine given name of Old Norse origin, historically associated with Viking-age Scandinavia and later borne by various notable figures.
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B.
Odin
Odin is the chief god in Norse mythology, associated with wisdom, war, poetry, and magic, and revered as the ruler of Asgard and the Aesir gods.
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C.
Halfdan Ragnarsson
Halfdan Ragnarsson was a 9th-century Viking warlord, traditionally identified as one of the sons of Ragnar Lothbrok, who played a major role in the Norse invasions and political upheavals in England.
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D.
Jarl
Jarl is a masculine given name of Scandinavian origin, historically associated with nobility and leadership.
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E.
Haak’u
Haak’u is the traditional Keresan-language name for Acoma Pueblo, a Native American community in New Mexico renowned for its ancient mesa-top village and cultural heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Stoick the Vast Description of subject: Stoick the Vast is the burly, strong-willed Viking chief and father of Hiccup in the "How to Train Your Dragon" franchise.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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