Tanngrisnir
E292272
Tanngrisnir is one of the two magical goats in Norse mythology that serve as Thor’s steeds, pulling his thunderous chariot and being able to be eaten and resurrected.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tanngrisnir canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2722764 — 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: Tanngrisnir Context triple: [Thor, chariotPulledBy, Tanngrisnir]
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A.
Draupnir
Draupnir is a magical gold ring in Norse mythology, forged by dwarves, that multiplies itself by producing eight new rings every ninth night.
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B.
Valaskjálf
Valaskjálf is the lofty, silver-roofed hall in Norse mythology where the god Odin sits on his high throne Hliðskjálf to survey all the worlds.
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C.
Gungnir
Gungnir is the legendary spear of the god Odin in Norse mythology, renowned for its unerring accuracy and powerful enchantments.
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D.
Hestur
Hestur is a small, sparsely populated island in the central Faroe Islands known for its steep cliffs, birdlife, and traditional Faroese landscape.
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E.
Muninn
Muninn is one of the two ravens in Norse mythology who serve Odin by flying across the world to gather and report information back to him.
- 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: Tanngrisnir Target entity description: Tanngrisnir is one of the two magical goats in Norse mythology that serve as Thor’s steeds, pulling his thunderous chariot and being able to be eaten and resurrected.
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A.
Draupnir
Draupnir is a magical gold ring in Norse mythology, forged by dwarves, that multiplies itself by producing eight new rings every ninth night.
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B.
Valaskjálf
Valaskjálf is the lofty, silver-roofed hall in Norse mythology where the god Odin sits on his high throne Hliðskjálf to survey all the worlds.
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C.
Gungnir
Gungnir is the legendary spear of the god Odin in Norse mythology, renowned for its unerring accuracy and powerful enchantments.
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D.
Hestur
Hestur is a small, sparsely populated island in the central Faroe Islands known for its steep cliffs, birdlife, and traditional Faroese landscape.
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E.
Muninn
Muninn is one of the two ravens in Norse mythology who serve Odin by flying across the world to gather and report information back to him.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Norse mythological creature
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Thor’s steed ⓘ fictional character ⓘ mythological goat ⓘ mythological horse ⓘ |
| appearsInMyth | Thor’s visit to the peasant’s farm ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Poetic Edda
ⓘ
Prose Edda ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Thor’s chariot
ⓘ
surface form:
chariot of Thor
storms ⓘ thunder ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity | Thor ⓘ |
| canBeEatenBy | Thor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Norse culture ⓘ |
| culture | Norse mythology ⓘ |
| diet | magically restored goat meat ⓘ |
| eatenAndResurrectedIn | Prose Edda ⓘ |
| employer | Thor ⓘ |
| genre | mythology ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalCompanion | Tanngnjóstr ⓘ |
| hasMagicalAbility |
regeneration of flesh from bones
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resurrection after being eaten ⓘ |
| hasSexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| isOneOf | Thor’s two goats ⓘ |
| isResurrectedBy | Thor ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
Old Norse language
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surface form:
Old Norse
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| modeOfTransportationFor | Thor ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | “teeth-barer” ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | Thor’s means of travel across the sky ⓘ |
| notableFeature | bones must remain unbroken for resurrection ⓘ |
| partner | Tanngnjóstr ⓘ |
| pulls | Thor’s chariot ⓘ |
| pullsTogetherWith | Tanngnjóstr ⓘ |
| serves | Thor ⓘ |
| species | goat ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
renewal
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sacrifice and rebirth ⓘ |
| transportationMedium | sky ⓘ |
| universe | Norse mythological cosmology ⓘ |
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: Tanngrisnir Description of subject: Tanngrisnir is one of the two magical goats in Norse mythology that serve as Thor’s steeds, pulling his thunderous chariot and being able to be eaten and resurrected.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thor