House of Durin
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The House of Durin is the legendary royal lineage of Dwarven kings in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, descended from Durin the Deathless and ruling notably over Khazad-dûm and Erebor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| House of Durin canonical | 10 |
| Durin's Folk settled in the Blue Mountains after loss of Erebor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2721158 — 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 Durin Context triple: [Thorin Oakenshield, house, House of Durin]
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House of Isildur
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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Nargothrond
Nargothrond is a great hidden Elven fortress-city in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, carved into caves along the River Narog in Beleriand and ruled by Finrod Felagund.
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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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Doriath
Doriath is a legendary hidden Elven kingdom ruled by Thingol and Melian in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, famed for its enchanted forest and tragic role in The Silmarillion.
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E.
Rivendell
Rivendell is a hidden Elven refuge in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, renowned as a sanctuary of wisdom, healing, and counsel.
- 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 Durin Target entity description: The House of Durin is the legendary royal lineage of Dwarven kings in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, descended from Durin the Deathless and ruling notably over Khazad-dûm and Erebor.
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A.
House of Isildur
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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B.
Nargothrond
Nargothrond is a great hidden Elven fortress-city in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, carved into caves along the River Narog in Beleriand and ruled by Finrod Felagund.
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C.
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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D.
Doriath
Doriath is a legendary hidden Elven kingdom ruled by Thingol and Melian in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, famed for its enchanted forest and tragic role in The Silmarillion.
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E.
Rivendell
Rivendell is a hidden Elven refuge in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, renowned as a sanctuary of wisdom, healing, and counsel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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 Durin Description of subject: The House of Durin is the legendary royal lineage of Dwarven kings in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, descended from Durin the Deathless and ruling notably over Khazad-dûm and Erebor.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Durin's Folk settled in the Blue Mountains after loss of Erebor