Acting Hand of the King
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Acting Hand of the King is a temporary chief advisor and executive authority to the monarch in Westeros, notably held by Tyrion Lannister during the War of the Five Kings in "A Song of Ice and Fire" and its TV adaptation "Game of Thrones."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Acting Hand of the King canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12958254 — 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: Acting Hand of the King Context triple: [Tyrion Lannister, title, Acting Hand of the King]
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A.
Message from the King
Message from the King is a 2016 neo-noir action thriller film in which Chadwick Boseman stars as a South African man who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his sister’s death.
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B.
The King’s Men
The King’s Men was the acting company in early 17th-century England that included William Shakespeare as a leading member and performed many of his plays.
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C.
His Majesty The King
His Majesty The King is the formal royal style used to address Carl XVI Gustaf, the reigning King of Sweden.
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D.
His Majesty The King
His Majesty The King is the royal style traditionally used to address a reigning male monarch such as a king.
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E.
The King
The King is a conman and one of the two unscrupulous drifters who travel with Huck and Jim, posing as royalty to swindle people in Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
- 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: Acting Hand of the King Target entity description: Acting Hand of the King is a temporary chief advisor and executive authority to the monarch in Westeros, notably held by Tyrion Lannister during the War of the Five Kings in "A Song of Ice and Fire" and its TV adaptation "Game of Thrones."
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A.
Message from the King
Message from the King is a 2016 neo-noir action thriller film in which Chadwick Boseman stars as a South African man who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his sister’s death.
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B.
The King’s Men
The King’s Men was the acting company in early 17th-century England that included William Shakespeare as a leading member and performed many of his plays.
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C.
His Majesty The King
His Majesty The King is the formal royal style used to address Carl XVI Gustaf, the reigning King of Sweden.
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D.
His Majesty The King
His Majesty The King is the royal style traditionally used to address a reigning male monarch such as a king.
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E.
The King
The King is a conman and one of the two unscrupulous drifters who travel with Huck and Jim, posing as royalty to swindle people in Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
court title
ⓘ
fictional office ⓘ political office ⓘ regent-like position ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
A Clash of Kings
ⓘ
A Storm of Swords ⓘ Game of Thrones (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Game of Thrones
|
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Iron Throne
ⓘ
Westeros ⓘ
linked to:
Westeros (fictional continent)
|
| appointedBy |
King of the Andals and the First Men
ⓘ
Queen of the Andals and the First Men ⓘ |
| country |
Seven Kingdoms of Westeros
ⓘ
linked to:
Seven Kingdoms
|
| definition | temporary chief advisor and executive authority to the monarch in Westeros ⓘ |
| distinctionFrom | permanent Hand of the King ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
A Song of Ice and Fire
ⓘ
Game of Thrones ⓘ |
| hasDuties |
administering royal justice
ⓘ
commanding royal forces when delegated ⓘ governing the realm in the monarch's name ⓘ presiding over the small council ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
acting capacity
ⓘ
temporary ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | creates political tension and conflict at court ⓘ |
| notablyHeldBy | Tyrion Lannister during the War of the Five Kings ⓘ |
| positionHeldBy |
Cersei Lannister
ⓘ
Cersei Lannister (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Cersei Lannister
Eddard Stark ⓘ Eddard Stark (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Eddard Stark
Grand Maester Pycelle ⓘ Grand Maester Pycelle (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Grand Maester Pycelle
Jon Arryn ⓘ Jon Arryn (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Jon Arryn
Melisandre ⓘ Melisandre (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Melisandre
Orton Merryweather ⓘ Petyr Baelish ⓘ Petyr Baelish (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Petyr Baelish
Qyburn ⓘ Qyburn (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Qyburn
Randall Tarly ⓘ
linked to:
Randyll Tarly
Roose Bolton ⓘ Ser Alliser Thorne ⓘ
linked to:
Alliser Thorne
Ser Alliser Thorne (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Alliser Thorne
Ser Barristan Selmy ⓘ
linked to:
Barristan Selmy
Ser Bronn of the Blackwater ⓘ Ser Bronn of the Blackwater (TV series) ⓘ Ser Davos Seaworth ⓘ
linked to:
Davos Seaworth
Ser Davos Seaworth (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Davos Seaworth
Ser Gregor Clegane ⓘ
linked to:
Gregor Clegane
Ser Harys Swyft ⓘ Ser Jaime Lannister ⓘ
linked to:
Jaime Lannister
Ser Jorah Mormont ⓘ
linked to:
Jorah Mormont
Ser Kevan Lannister ⓘ
linked to:
Kevan Lannister (TV adaptation)
Ser Kevan Lannister (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Kevan Lannister (TV adaptation)
Ser Mace Tyrell ⓘ Ser Mace Tyrell (TV series) ⓘ Stannis Baratheon ⓘ Stannis Baratheon (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Stannis Baratheon
Tyrion Lannister ⓘ Tyrion Lannister (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Tyrion Lannister
Tywin Lannister ⓘ Tywin Lannister (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Tywin Lannister
Varys ⓘ Varys (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Varys
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| relatedTo | Hand of the King ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | monarch of the Seven Kingdoms ⓘ |
| symbol | Hand-shaped brooch when acting as Hand ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Acting Hand of the King Description of subject: Acting Hand of the King is a temporary chief advisor and executive authority to the monarch in Westeros, notably held by Tyrion Lannister during the War of the Five Kings in "A Song of Ice and Fire" and its TV adaptation "Game of Thrones."
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