Théoden
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Théoden is the aging but valiant King of Rohan in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, who overcomes manipulation to lead his people in the war against Sauron.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Théoden canonical | 16 |
| King Théoden | 3 |
| King Théoden of Rohan | 1 |
| Théoden King | 1 |
| Théoden, King of Rohan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2137972 — 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: Théoden Context triple: [The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, mainCharacter, Théoden]
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A.
Éomer
Éomer is a valiant warrior of Rohan who becomes its king and plays a crucial role in the War of the Ring in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
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B.
Aragorn
Aragorn is a central heroic figure in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, a ranger and rightful king who plays a crucial role in the defeat of Sauron.
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C.
Denethor II
Denethor II is the last ruling Steward of Gondor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known for his pride, despair, and tragic downfall during the War of the Ring.
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D.
Faramir
Faramir is a noble and introspective Gondorian captain from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, known for his wisdom, mercy, and resistance to the corrupting power of the One Ring.
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E.
Thorin Oakenshield
Thorin Oakenshield is a proud and determined Dwarf leader from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, best known for leading the quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and its treasure from the dragon Smaug.
- 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: Théoden Target entity description: Théoden is the aging but valiant King of Rohan in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, who overcomes manipulation to lead his people in the war against Sauron.
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A.
Éomer
Éomer is a valiant warrior of Rohan who becomes its king and plays a crucial role in the War of the Ring in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
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B.
Aragorn
Aragorn is a central heroic figure in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, a ranger and rightful king who plays a crucial role in the defeat of Sauron.
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C.
Denethor II
Denethor II is the last ruling Steward of Gondor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known for his pride, despair, and tragic downfall during the War of the Ring.
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D.
Faramir
Faramir is a noble and introspective Gondorian captain from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, known for his wisdom, mercy, and resistance to the corrupting power of the One Ring.
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E.
Thorin Oakenshield
Thorin Oakenshield is a proud and determined Dwarf leader from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, best known for leading the quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and its treasure from the dragon Smaug.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Théoden Description of subject: Théoden is the aging but valiant King of Rohan in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, who overcomes manipulation to lead his people in the war against Sauron.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Théoden, King of Rohan
this entity surface form:
King Théoden of Rohan
this entity surface form:
King Théoden
subject surface form:
King Théoden (film character)
subject surface form:
Men (Middle-earth)
this entity surface form:
King Théoden