Forbidding Sea
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Forbidding Sea is a vast and perilous ocean surrounding parts of Azeroth in the Warcraft universe, known for marking the edge of the known world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Forbidding Sea canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11541794 — 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: Forbidding Sea Context triple: [Azeroth, hasOcean, Forbidding Sea]
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A.
The Western Sea
The Western Sea, known in Tolkien's legendarium as Belegaer, is the vast ocean that lies between Middle-earth and the Undying Lands of Aman.
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B.
Gulf of Sorrows
The Gulf of Sorrows is a remote, stormy stretch of ocean off the rugged southern coast of Chile, notorious for its harsh weather and treacherous sailing conditions.
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C.
The Nore
The Nore is a sandbank at the mouth of the Thames Estuary in England that historically served as a major Royal Navy anchorage and site of naval command.
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D.
The Free Sea
The Free Sea is the English title of Hugo Grotius’s seminal 1609 treatise advocating the principle of freedom of the seas in international law.
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E.
Bay of Dragons
The Bay of Dragons is a large body of water in the eastern continent of Essos in the world of "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "Game of Thrones," bordering key cities like Meereen, Yunkai, and Astapor.
- 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: Forbidding Sea Target entity description: Forbidding Sea is a vast and perilous ocean surrounding parts of Azeroth in the Warcraft universe, known for marking the edge of the known world.
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A.
The Western Sea
The Western Sea, known in Tolkien's legendarium as Belegaer, is the vast ocean that lies between Middle-earth and the Undying Lands of Aman.
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B.
Gulf of Sorrows
The Gulf of Sorrows is a remote, stormy stretch of ocean off the rugged southern coast of Chile, notorious for its harsh weather and treacherous sailing conditions.
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C.
The Nore
The Nore is a sandbank at the mouth of the Thames Estuary in England that historically served as a major Royal Navy anchorage and site of naval command.
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D.
The Free Sea
The Free Sea is the English title of Hugo Grotius’s seminal 1609 treatise advocating the principle of freedom of the seas in international law.
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E.
Bay of Dragons
The Bay of Dragons is a large body of water in the eastern continent of Essos in the world of "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "Game of Thrones," bordering key cities like Meereen, Yunkai, and Astapor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
body of water
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fictional sea ⓘ location in Warcraft universe ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Forbidding Sea ⓘ |
| appearsIn | World of Warcraft ⓘ |
| associatedWith | open ocean hazards ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | canon in Warcraft lore ⓘ |
| characteristic |
perilous
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vast ⓘ |
| dangerLevelInLore | high ⓘ |
| depictedAs | endless ocean expanse ⓘ |
| existsInMedium |
game lore
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video game ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Warcraft
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linked to:
Warcraft universe
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| geographicalContext |
surrounds eastern parts of Eastern Kingdoms
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surrounds parts of Kalimdor ⓘ |
| hasTheme | mystery beyond the known world ⓘ |
| inGameRegionType | sea ⓘ |
| loreRole | boundary of explored Azeroth ⓘ |
| marks | edge of the known world of Azeroth ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
limits player-accessible world space
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suggests unexplored territories beyond Azeroth ⓘ |
| settingFor | nautical exploration in Warcraft ⓘ |
| surroundsPartOf | Azeroth ⓘ |
| typeOf | ocean ⓘ |
| universe | Azeroth ⓘ |
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: Forbidding Sea Description of subject: Forbidding Sea is a vast and perilous ocean surrounding parts of Azeroth in the Warcraft universe, known for marking the edge of the known world.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.