West-gate of Moria
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The West-gate of Moria is the famed western entrance to the Dwarven kingdom of Khazad-dûm, marked by Elvish and Dwarvish inscriptions and serving as the Fellowship’s entry point into the mines in The Lord of the Rings.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| West-gate of Moria canonical | 14 |
| West-door of Moria | 3 |
| West-gate of Khazad-dûm | 2 |
| West-door of Khazad-dûm | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11144754 — 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: West-gate of Moria Context triple: [Moria, hasEntranceType, West-gate of Moria]
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The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
"The Bridge of Khazad-dûm" is a pivotal chapter in J.R.R. Tolkien’s *The Fellowship of the Ring* depicting the Fellowship’s desperate confrontation with the Balrog in the depths of Moria.
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B.
the Black Gate of Mordor
The Black Gate of Mordor is the massive, heavily guarded main entrance to Sauron’s dark realm in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, symbolizing the forbidding power and militarized might of Mordor.
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C.
Great Hall of Thráin
The Great Hall of Thráin is the grand subterranean throne room and central gathering place of the Dwarven kingdom within the Lonely Mountain in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
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D.
Angerthas Moria
Angerthas Moria is a runic script used by the Dwarves of Middle-earth, particularly in Moria, for writing their secret language Khuzdul.
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E.
Gondolin Cave
Gondolin Cave is a fossil-rich limestone cave in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, known for important early hominin and animal remains.
- 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: West-gate of Moria Target entity description: The West-gate of Moria is the famed western entrance to the Dwarven kingdom of Khazad-dûm, marked by Elvish and Dwarvish inscriptions and serving as the Fellowship’s entry point into the mines in The Lord of the Rings.
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A.
The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
"The Bridge of Khazad-dûm" is a pivotal chapter in J.R.R. Tolkien’s *The Fellowship of the Ring* depicting the Fellowship’s desperate confrontation with the Balrog in the depths of Moria.
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B.
the Black Gate of Mordor
The Black Gate of Mordor is the massive, heavily guarded main entrance to Sauron’s dark realm in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, symbolizing the forbidding power and militarized might of Mordor.
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C.
Great Hall of Thráin
The Great Hall of Thráin is the grand subterranean throne room and central gathering place of the Dwarven kingdom within the Lonely Mountain in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
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D.
Angerthas Moria
Angerthas Moria is a runic script used by the Dwarves of Middle-earth, particularly in Moria, for writing their secret language Khuzdul.
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E.
Gondolin Cave
Gondolin Cave is a fossil-rich limestone cave in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, known for important early hominin and animal remains.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: West-gate of Moria Description of subject: The West-gate of Moria is the famed western entrance to the Dwarven kingdom of Khazad-dûm, marked by Elvish and Dwarvish inscriptions and serving as the Fellowship’s entry point into the mines in The Lord of the Rings.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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