Morgul Vale
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Morgul Vale is a dark, haunted valley in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, lying beneath the Ephel Dúath and serving as the dread approach to Minas Morgul.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Morgul Vale canonical | 7 |
| Minas Morgul valley | 1 |
| Morgul Pass | 1 |
| Morgul-road | 1 |
| Valley of the Morgul | 1 |
| valley of Minas Morgul | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11048338 — 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: Morgul Vale Context triple: [Minas Morgul, controlsFictional, Morgul Vale]
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A.
Minas Morgul
Minas Morgul is a sinister, corrupted fortress-city in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, serving as a stronghold of the Nazgûl in The Lord of the Rings.
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B.
Cirith Ungol
Cirith Ungol is a perilous mountain pass and fortress in Mordor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, infamous for its association with Shelob and the final leg of Frodo and Sam’s journey into Sauron’s realm.
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C.
Dol Guldur
Dol Guldur is a dark fortress in southern Mirkwood in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, notorious as a stronghold of evil and a key base of operations for the Necromancer during the events leading up to The Lord of the Rings.
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D.
Ephel Dúath
Ephel Dúath is the dark, mountainous border range of Mordor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, forming part of the land’s forbidding enclosure.
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E.
Barad-dûr
Barad-dûr is Sauron’s immense dark fortress in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, dominating the land of Mordor as his primary stronghold.
- 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: Morgul Vale Target entity description: Morgul Vale is a dark, haunted valley in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, lying beneath the Ephel Dúath and serving as the dread approach to Minas Morgul.
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A.
Minas Morgul
Minas Morgul is a sinister, corrupted fortress-city in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, serving as a stronghold of the Nazgûl in The Lord of the Rings.
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B.
Cirith Ungol
Cirith Ungol is a perilous mountain pass and fortress in Mordor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, infamous for its association with Shelob and the final leg of Frodo and Sam’s journey into Sauron’s realm.
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C.
Dol Guldur
Dol Guldur is a dark fortress in southern Mirkwood in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, notorious as a stronghold of evil and a key base of operations for the Necromancer during the events leading up to The Lord of the Rings.
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D.
Ephel Dúath
Ephel Dúath is the dark, mountainous border range of Mordor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, forming part of the land’s forbidding enclosure.
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E.
Barad-dûr
Barad-dûr is Sauron’s immense dark fortress in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, dominating the land of Mordor as his primary stronghold.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional valley
ⓘ
geographical feature in The Lord of the Rings ⓘ location in Middle-earth ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Valley of the Morgul
ⓘ
linked to:
Morgul Vale
|
| appearsIn |
The Lord of the Rings
ⓘ
The Return of the King ⓘ The Two Towers ⓘ
linked to:
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
|
| approachTo | Minas Morgul ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ringwraiths
ⓘ
linked to:
Nazgûl
Witch-king of Angmar ⓘ |
| borderOf |
Gondor
ⓘ
Mordor ⓘ |
| characteristic |
corrupted by Mordor
ⓘ
dark ⓘ dreadful ⓘ haunted ⓘ |
| connectedTo | Morgul-road ⓘ |
| creator | J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ |
| describedAs |
filled with a sickly, corpse-light glow from Minas Morgul
ⓘ
oppressive and fearsome ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Middle-earth ⓘ |
| formerlyApproachTo | Minas Ithil ⓘ |
| function |
main western approach to Minas Morgul
ⓘ
route from Ithilien toward Mordor ⓘ |
| genre | high fantasy ⓘ |
| guardedBy | forces of Minas Morgul ⓘ |
| hasRiver | Morgulduin ⓘ |
| inhabitedBy | orcs ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Sindarin ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Gondor
ⓘ
Ithilien ⓘ |
| locatedUnder | Ephel Dúath ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| nameMeaning |
Valley of Dark Sorcery
ⓘ
linked to:
Tower of Sorcery
|
| near |
Cirith Ungol
ⓘ
Morgai ⓘ Morgul Pass ⓘ
linked to:
Morgul Vale
|
| notableEvent |
Frodo and Sam passed through on their way to Cirith Ungol
ⓘ
The Host of Morgul issued forth from Minas Morgul into the vale ⓘ |
| partOf |
the western approaches to Mordor
ⓘ
linked to:
Morannon pass
|
| riverFlowsFrom | Morgulduin ⓘ |
| riverFlowsToward | Anduin ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | key invasion route from Mordor into Gondor ⓘ |
| terrain | steep-sided valley ⓘ |
| threatens | Gondor ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Third Age ⓘ |
| underControlOf | Sauron ⓘ |
| vegetation | blighted ⓘ |
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: Morgul Vale Description of subject: Morgul Vale is a dark, haunted valley in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, lying beneath the Ephel Dúath and serving as the dread approach to Minas Morgul.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Morgul Vale
subject linked to:
the encircling mountains of Mordor
linked to: Morgul Vale
linked to: Morgul Vale
linked to: Morgul Vale
linked to: Morgul Vale