Flood
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The Flood is a parasitic alien species in the Halo universe that infects and assimilates other lifeforms, serving as one of the series’ primary antagonistic forces.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flood canonical | 13 |
| Firefight: Flood | 1 |
| Flood combat forms | 1 |
| Flood faction | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8511643 — 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: Flood Context triple: [Halo (video game series), notableFaction, Flood]
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A.
Flood
Flood is a renowned British record producer and audio engineer known for his work with influential rock and alternative artists such as U2, Depeche Mode, and Nine Inch Nails.
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B.
Flood
Flood is a common English surname of Germanic origin, often associated with families from regions prone to flooding or near bodies of water.
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C.
Flood
Flood is a landmark 1963 abstract expressionist painting by Helen Frankenthaler, celebrated for its lyrical color field technique and innovative use of thinned paint poured directly onto unprimed canvas.
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D.
Flood
"Flood" is a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter that explores a near-future Earth devastated by a mysterious, relentless rise in global sea levels.
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E.
Waterless Flood
The Waterless Flood is a catastrophic, bioengineered pandemic in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy that wipes out most of humanity without involving an actual deluge.
- 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: Flood Target entity description: The Flood is a parasitic alien species in the Halo universe that infects and assimilates other lifeforms, serving as one of the series’ primary antagonistic forces.
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A.
Flood
Flood is a renowned British record producer and audio engineer known for his work with influential rock and alternative artists such as U2, Depeche Mode, and Nine Inch Nails.
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B.
Flood
Flood is a common English surname of Germanic origin, often associated with families from regions prone to flooding or near bodies of water.
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C.
Flood
Flood is a landmark 1963 abstract expressionist painting by Helen Frankenthaler, celebrated for its lyrical color field technique and innovative use of thinned paint poured directly onto unprimed canvas.
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D.
Flood
"Flood" is a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter that explores a near-future Earth devastated by a mysterious, relentless rise in global sea levels.
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E.
Waterless Flood
The Waterless Flood is a catastrophic, bioengineered pandemic in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy that wipes out most of humanity without involving an actual deluge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Halo universe species
ⓘ
fictional alien species ⓘ parasitic organism collective ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
The Flood Infection
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The Infection ⓘ The Parasite ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Halo 2
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Halo 3 ⓘ Halo Wars ⓘ Halo Wars 2 ⓘ Halo: Combat Evolved ⓘ Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary ⓘ Halo: The Master Chief Collection ⓘ |
| canInfect |
Forerunners
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Jiralhanae ⓘ Sangheili ⓘ humans ⓘ most sentient species ⓘ |
| communication | telepathic coordination via Gravemind ⓘ |
| countermeasure | activation of Halo rings ⓘ |
| creator | Bungie ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Covenant
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Forerunners ⓘ Sangheili ⓘ UNSC ⓘ
linked to:
UNSC Armed Forces
humanity ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Halo ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Halo: Combat Evolved ⓘ |
| gameplayRole | enemy faction in Halo series ⓘ |
| infectionMethod |
biomass assimilation
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neural takeover of hosts ⓘ spore-based infection ⓘ |
| intelligence | distributed hive intelligence ⓘ |
| keyForm |
Carrier Form
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Combat Form ⓘ Gravemind ⓘ
linked to:
The Gravemind
Infection Form ⓘ Proto-Gravemind ⓘ
linked to:
The Gravemind
Pure Form ⓘ |
| ledBy |
Gravemind
ⓘ
linked to:
The Gravemind
Proto-Gravemind ⓘ
linked to:
The Gravemind
|
| notableEvent |
Forerunner–Flood war
ⓘ
linked to:
Forerunner-Flood war
|
| notableLocation |
Installation 00 (The Ark)
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Installation 04 ⓘ Installation 05 ⓘ |
| opposedBy | Halo Array ⓘ |
| origin | ancient galaxy-wide outbreak ⓘ |
| primaryGoal |
achieve universal biomass assimilation
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spread infection across the galaxy ⓘ |
| roleInSeries |
existential threat to all sentient life
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primary antagonist ⓘ |
| speciesType | parasitic hive-mind ⓘ |
| threatLevel | galaxy-ending ⓘ |
| weakness | starvation of sentient biomass ⓘ |
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: Flood Description of subject: The Flood is a parasitic alien species in the Halo universe that infects and assimilates other lifeforms, serving as one of the series’ primary antagonistic forces.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Halo video game series
subject linked to:
Halo (fictional ringworld from video game series)
linked to: Flood
linked to: Flood
linked to: Flood