Idunn
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Idunn is the Norse goddess who guards the apples of immortality that keep the gods eternally youthful.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T579440 — 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: Idunn Context triple: [Norse mythology, hasDeity, Idunn]
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A.
Freyja
Freyja is a major Norse goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, magic, and war, often depicted as a powerful and independent figure who rides a chariot drawn by cats.
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B.
Frigg
Frigg is the Norse goddess of marriage, motherhood, and foreknowledge, and the wife of the chief god Odin.
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C.
Freyr
Freyr is a major Norse god associated with fertility, prosperity, sunshine, and fair weather, often revered as a bringer of peace and good harvests.
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D.
Sif
Sif is a goddess in Norse mythology best known as the golden-haired wife of Thor and a deity associated with earth, fertility, and grain.
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E.
Baldr
Baldr is a radiant and beloved Norse god associated with light, purity, and beauty, whose death is a central and tragic event in Norse mythology.
- 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: Idunn Target entity description: Idunn is the Norse goddess who guards the apples of immortality that keep the gods eternally youthful.
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A.
Freyja
Freyja is a major Norse goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, magic, and war, often depicted as a powerful and independent figure who rides a chariot drawn by cats.
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B.
Frigg
Frigg is the Norse goddess of marriage, motherhood, and foreknowledge, and the wife of the chief god Odin.
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C.
Freyr
Freyr is a major Norse god associated with fertility, prosperity, sunshine, and fair weather, often revered as a bringer of peace and good harvests.
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D.
Sif
Sif is a goddess in Norse mythology best known as the golden-haired wife of Thor and a deity associated with earth, fertility, and grain.
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E.
Baldr
Baldr is a radiant and beloved Norse god associated with light, purity, and beauty, whose death is a central and tragic event in Norse mythology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Norse goddess
ⓘ
mythological figure ⓘ |
| antagonistInMyth | Thjazi ⓘ |
| appearsInStory |
Lokasenna
ⓘ
Skáldskaparmál ⓘ
linked to:
Prose Edda
|
| associatedConcept |
fertility and renewal
ⓘ
immortality of the gods ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bragi
ⓘ
apples of immortality ⓘ eternal youth of the gods ⓘ youth ⓘ |
| category |
Fictional characters based on Norse deities
ⓘ
Norse goddesses ⓘ |
| consequenceOfAbduction | gods begin to age without her apples ⓘ |
| cosmologicalContext | Norse cosmology ⓘ |
| culture | Norse mythology ⓘ |
| depictedAs | a young woman carrying apples ⓘ |
| domain | youth and rejuvenation ⓘ |
| family |
Aesir gods
ⓘ
linked to:
Aesir
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| guardedObject | apples that preserve the youth of the gods ⓘ |
| hasCompanion |
Bragi, god of poetry
ⓘ
linked to:
Bragi
|
| influence |
inspired characters and motifs in modern literature
ⓘ
inspired characters and motifs in modern popular culture ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
Old Norse
ⓘ
linked to:
Norse
|
| literaryFunction | explains the gods' continued youth ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Poetic Edda
ⓘ
Prose Edda ⓘ |
| mythologicalEvent | abduction by the giant Thjazi ⓘ |
| mythType | deity of youth ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | possibly derived from Old Norse meaning "ever young" or "rejuvenating" ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Idun
ⓘ
linked to:
Idunn
Iduna ⓘ Iðunn ⓘ
linked to:
Idunn
|
| pantheon | Aesir ⓘ |
| primarySource |
Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
ⓘ
linked to:
Prose Edda
|
| relatedMyth | Loki's deal with Thjazi to lure her out of Asgard ⓘ |
| rescuedBy |
Loki
ⓘ
the gods of Asgard ⓘ
linked to:
Aesir
|
| residence | Asgard ⓘ |
| restorationEvent | return to Asgard with her apples restoring the gods' youth ⓘ |
| role | guardian of the apples of immortality ⓘ |
| species | goddess ⓘ |
| spouse | Bragi ⓘ |
| symbol |
apple
ⓘ
box or casket of apples ⓘ |
| worshipContext | pre-Christian Norse religion ⓘ |
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: Idunn Description of subject: Idunn is the Norse goddess who guards the apples of immortality that keep the gods eternally youthful.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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