House of Isildur
E238872
The House of Isildur is the royal bloodline of Númenórean descent in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium from which Aragorn and the kings of Gondor are descended.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| House of Isildur canonical | 4 |
| kingship of Gondor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2147436 — 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: House of Isildur Context triple: [Aragorn, house, House of Isildur]
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A.
Elidor
Elidor is a 1965 fantasy novel by Alan Garner that blends contemporary Manchester with a dark, mythic otherworld entered through a derelict church.
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B.
House of Dun
House of Dun is an 18th-century Georgian country house and estate in Angus, Scotland, noted for its elegant architecture and historical significance.
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C.
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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D.
Istari
The Istari are a group of powerful, angelic beings in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium who take the form of wizards sent to aid the Free Peoples against Sauron.
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E.
Minas Tirith
Minas Tirith is the heavily fortified, tiered capital city of Gondor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, renowned for its white walls and pivotal role in the War of the Ring.
- 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: House of Isildur Target entity description: The House of Isildur is the royal bloodline of Númenórean descent in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium from which Aragorn and the kings of Gondor are descended.
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A.
Elidor
Elidor is a 1965 fantasy novel by Alan Garner that blends contemporary Manchester with a dark, mythic otherworld entered through a derelict church.
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B.
House of Dun
House of Dun is an 18th-century Georgian country house and estate in Angus, Scotland, noted for its elegant architecture and historical significance.
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C.
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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D.
Istari
The Istari are a group of powerful, angelic beings in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium who take the form of wizards sent to aid the Free Peoples against Sauron.
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E.
Minas Tirith
Minas Tirith is the heavily fortified, tiered capital city of Gondor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, renowned for its white walls and pivotal role in the War of the Ring.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (72)
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: House of Isildur Description of subject: The House of Isildur is the royal bloodline of Númenórean descent in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium from which Aragorn and the kings of Gondor are descended.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Narsil
this entity surface form:
kingship of Gondor