Ossë
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Ossë is a powerful Maia in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known as a stormy vassal of Ulmo who rules the coastal waters and is associated with tempests and restless seas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ossë canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9777427 — 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: Ossë Context triple: [Maia, notableMember, Ossë]
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A.
Anórien
Anórien is a region of Gondor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, lying between the White Mountains and the Great River Anduin.
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B.
Morath
Morath is the surname of Inge Morath, the renowned Austrian-born Magnum photographer celebrated for her humanistic and poetic documentary work.
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C.
Aníron
Aníron is a song performed by Enya, best known for its use in the soundtrack of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
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D.
Baradine
Baradine is a small rural town in New South Wales, Australia, known as a gateway to the Pilliga Forest and for its agricultural and forestry activities.
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E.
Urstein
Urstein is a locality in the municipality of Puch bei Hallein in the Austrian state of Salzburg, known for hosting the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences campus.
- 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: Ossë Target entity description: Ossë is a powerful Maia in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known as a stormy vassal of Ulmo who rules the coastal waters and is associated with tempests and restless seas.
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A.
Anórien
Anórien is a region of Gondor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, lying between the White Mountains and the Great River Anduin.
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B.
Morath
Morath is the surname of Inge Morath, the renowned Austrian-born Magnum photographer celebrated for her humanistic and poetic documentary work.
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C.
Aníron
Aníron is a song performed by Enya, best known for its use in the soundtrack of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
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D.
Baradine
Baradine is a small rural town in New South Wales, Australia, known as a gateway to the Pilliga Forest and for its agricultural and forestry activities.
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E.
Urstein
Urstein is a locality in the municipality of Puch bei Hallein in the Austrian state of Salzburg, known for hosting the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Maia
ⓘ
divineSpirit ⓘ fictionalCharacter ⓘ |
| allegiance | Ulmo ⓘ |
| appeasedBy | offerings from sailors ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
coastlines
ⓘ
restless seas ⓘ sea foam ⓘ shipwrecks ⓘ storms ⓘ tempests ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory |
Characters in The Silmarillion
ⓘ
Maiar of Ulmo ⓘ Water spirits in Middle-earth ⓘ |
| characterIn |
The Lord of the Rings legendarium
ⓘ
linked to:
The Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion ⓘ |
| creator | J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ |
| domain |
coastal waters
ⓘ
seas near shores ⓘ waves ⓘ |
| epithet |
the master of storms
ⓘ
the stormy vassal of Ulmo ⓘ |
| fearedBy | mariners ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| inhabits |
seas of Arda
ⓘ
shores of Middle-earth ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Quenya ⓘ |
| loyalty |
Ulmo
ⓘ
Valar ⓘ
linked to:
The Valar
|
| marriedTo | Uinen ⓘ |
| nature |
turbulent
ⓘ
wild ⓘ |
| notableFor |
causing great storms off the coasts
ⓘ
love of tumult and chaos of the sea ⓘ |
| onceSeducedBy |
Melkor
ⓘ
linked to:
Morgoth
|
| opposedTo |
Melkor
ⓘ
linked to:
Morgoth
|
| powerType |
control of waves
ⓘ
raising storms ⓘ |
| race | Maia ⓘ |
| reconciledThrough | Uinen ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Unfinished Tales
ⓘ
Valaquenta ⓘ |
| serves | Ulmo ⓘ |
| spouse | Uinen ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Ages of Arda
ⓘ
linked to:
the Ages of the Children of Ilúvatar
|
| universe |
Middle-earth legendarium
ⓘ
linked to:
legendarium of Middle-earth
|
| vassalOf | Ulmo ⓘ |
| worshippedBy | some seafaring peoples of Middle-earth ⓘ |
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: Ossë Description of subject: Ossë is a powerful Maia in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known as a stormy vassal of Ulmo who rules the coastal waters and is associated with tempests and restless seas.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.