Bilbo's birthday speech in The Fellowship of the Ring

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fictional event scene in a novel speech

Bilbo's birthday speech in The Fellowship of the Ring is the humorous and pivotal party address at his eleventy-first birthday where he mysteriously vanishes using the One Ring, setting the main events of the story in motion.

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Label	Occurrences
Bilbo's birthday speech in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring film	1
Bilbo's birthday speech in The Fellowship of the Ring canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2705304 — 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: Bilbo's birthday speech in The Fellowship of the Ring
Context triple: [Bilbo Baggins, notableScene, Bilbo's birthday speech in The Fellowship of the Ring]

A. Bilbo Baggins
Bilbo Baggins is a humble hobbit from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium who becomes an unlikely adventurer and key figure in the quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain.
B. The Hobbit
The Hobbit is a classic fantasy novel by J.R.R. Tolkien that follows the journey of Bilbo Baggins as he is swept into an adventure involving dwarves, dragons, and a quest for treasure in Middle-earth.
C. Frodo Baggins
Frodo Baggins is a hobbit of the Shire who becomes the Ring-bearer tasked with destroying the One Ring in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
D. Gandalf
Gandalf is a wise and powerful wizard who plays a central role in guiding the forces of good against evil in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth saga.
E. Bilbo Gardner
Bilbo Gardner is a hobbit of the Shire, a member of Samwise Gamgee’s family in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
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: Bilbo's birthday speech in The Fellowship of the Ring
Target entity description: Bilbo's birthday speech in The Fellowship of the Ring is the humorous and pivotal party address at his eleventy-first birthday where he mysteriously vanishes using the One Ring, setting the main events of the story in motion.

A. Bilbo Baggins
Bilbo Baggins is a humble hobbit from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium who becomes an unlikely adventurer and key figure in the quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain.
B. The Hobbit
The Hobbit is a classic fantasy novel by J.R.R. Tolkien that follows the journey of Bilbo Baggins as he is swept into an adventure involving dwarves, dragons, and a quest for treasure in Middle-earth.
C. Frodo Baggins
Frodo Baggins is a hobbit of the Shire who becomes the Ring-bearer tasked with destroying the One Ring in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
D. Gandalf
Gandalf is a wise and powerful wizard who plays a central role in guiding the forces of good against evil in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth saga.
E. Bilbo Gardner
Bilbo Gardner is a hobbit of the Shire, a member of Samwise Gamgee’s family in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	fictional event ⓘ scene in a novel ⓘ speech ⓘ
appearsInChapter	A Long-expected Party ⓘ
celebratesAge	Bilbo's 111th birthday ⓘ Frodo's 33rd birthday ⓘ
createdBy	J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ
followedBy	Bilbo putting on the One Ring ⓘ Bilbo's sudden disappearance from the party ⓘ
hasAdaptation	Bilbo's birthday speech in The Fellowship of the Ring self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Bilbo's birthday speech in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring film
hasAudience	Baggins family ⓘ Frodo Baggins ⓘ Gandalf ⓘ Hobbits of Bywater ⓘ Hobbits of Hobbiton ⓘ Baggins family ⓘ surface form: Sackville-Baggins family
hasDateInFiction	22 September 3001 of the Third Age ⓘ
hasGenre	fantasy literature scene ⓘ
hasNotableLine	I am eleventy-one today ⓘ I am going ⓘ I am leaving now ⓘ I don't know half of you half as well as I should like ⓘ and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve ⓘ
hasOccasion	joint birthday party of Bilbo and Frodo ⓘ
hasOpeningWords	My dear people ⓘ
hasSpeaker	Bilbo Baggins ⓘ
hasTheme	farewell ⓘ the end of an age ⓘ the passing of responsibility ⓘ
isTurningPointFor	Bilbo Baggins ⓘ Frodo Baggins ⓘ the history of the One Ring ⓘ
language	Westron ⓘ surface form: Westron (in-universe)
languageOfPublication	English ⓘ
narrativeFunction	foreshadows Bilbo's departure from the Shire ⓘ helps set the main plot of The Lord of the Rings in motion ⓘ initiates the transfer of the One Ring to Frodo ⓘ marks Bilbo's farewell to the Shire ⓘ
partOf	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ⓘ surface form: The Fellowship of the Ring The Lord of the Rings ⓘ
preparationBy	Gandalf's fireworks display ⓘ
takesPlaceAt	Bag End ⓘ
takesPlaceDuring	Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday party ⓘ
takesPlaceIn	The Shire ⓘ
tone	humorous ⓘ playful ⓘ slightly insulting ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bilbo Baggins → notableScene → Bilbo's birthday speech in The Fellowship of the Ring ⓘ

Bilbo's birthday speech in The Fellowship of the Ring → hasAdaptation → Bilbo's birthday speech in The Fellowship of the Ring self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bilbo's birthday speech in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring film

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