Drowned God
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The Drowned God is the harsh maritime deity worshipped by the ironborn of Westeros, embodying seafaring, raiding, and a death-and-rebirth ethos tied to the sea.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Drowned God canonical | 9 |
| Faith of the Drowned God | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3284908 — 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: Drowned God Context triple: [Westeros, hasReligion, Drowned God]
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A.
Eidolon
Eidolon is an online classics journal and magazine that presents accessible, socially engaged writing on the ancient world for a broad contemporary audience.
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B.
Whispers of the Old Gods
Whispers of the Old Gods is a dark, Lovecraftian-themed Hearthstone expansion that introduced corrupted versions of classic cards and powerful Old God legendaries, dramatically reshaping the game's meta.
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C.
Dagon
Dagon is an ancient Semitic deity, often associated with grain, fertility, and sometimes the sea, worshipped across regions including Phoenicia and Mesopotamia.
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D.
Totem of Undying
The Totem of Undying is a rare magical item in Minecraft that prevents a player’s death by instantly restoring health and granting temporary buffs when held and triggered upon fatal damage.
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E.
God of Vengeance
God of Vengeance is a controversial early 20th-century Yiddish play by Sholem Asch, best known for its groundbreaking depiction of a lesbian relationship and its critique of religious hypocrisy.
- 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: Drowned God Target entity description: The Drowned God is the harsh maritime deity worshipped by the ironborn of Westeros, embodying seafaring, raiding, and a death-and-rebirth ethos tied to the sea.
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A.
Eidolon
Eidolon is an online classics journal and magazine that presents accessible, socially engaged writing on the ancient world for a broad contemporary audience.
-
B.
Whispers of the Old Gods
Whispers of the Old Gods is a dark, Lovecraftian-themed Hearthstone expansion that introduced corrupted versions of classic cards and powerful Old God legendaries, dramatically reshaping the game's meta.
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C.
Dagon
Dagon is an ancient Semitic deity, often associated with grain, fertility, and sometimes the sea, worshipped across regions including Phoenicia and Mesopotamia.
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D.
Totem of Undying
The Totem of Undying is a rare magical item in Minecraft that prevents a player’s death by instantly restoring health and granting temporary buffs when held and triggered upon fatal damage.
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E.
God of Vengeance
God of Vengeance is a controversial early 20th-century Yiddish play by Sholem Asch, best known for its groundbreaking depiction of a lesbian relationship and its critique of religious hypocrisy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional deity
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religious figure in fiction ⓘ |
| associatedElement |
drowning
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salt water ⓘ |
| associatedHouse | House Greyjoy ⓘ |
| associatedMotto | What is dead may never die ⓘ |
| associatedPhrase | the god that drowned ⓘ |
| associatedRitualEvent | Kingsmoot on Old Wyk ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation |
Westeros (fictional continent)
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surface form:
Westeros
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| associatedWithRegion |
The Iron Islands
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surface form:
Iron Islands
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| clergyTitle |
drowned man
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priest of the Drowned God ⓘ |
| createdBy | George R. R. Martin ⓘ |
| culturalRole | state religion of the Iron Islands ⓘ |
| domain |
raiding
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sea ⓘ seafaring ⓘ storms ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
A Song of Ice and Fire
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Game of Thrones ⓘ |
| influences |
ironborn attitudes toward death
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ironborn law and customs ⓘ ironborn raiding culture ⓘ |
| keyDoctrine |
glorification of reaving and piracy
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rebirth through drowning ⓘ what is dead may never die ⓘ |
| moralCode |
contempt for farming and trade
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valor in battle at sea ⓘ |
| notablePriest | Aeron Greyjoy ⓘ |
| opposedTo | Storm God ⓘ |
| religionName |
Drowned God religion
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Old Way ⓘ |
| ritualObject |
driftwood idols
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sea water ⓘ |
| scriptureStatus | oral tradition ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
death and rebirth
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harsh maritime life ⓘ ironborn cultural identity ⓘ |
| theologicalConcept |
afterlife beneath the waves
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god who drowned and returned stronger ⓘ |
| worshipCenter | seashores of the Iron Islands ⓘ |
| worshippedBy | ironborn ⓘ |
| worshipPractice |
drowning and resuscitation ritual
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offering of drowned victims ⓘ sea water baptism ⓘ |
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: Drowned God Description of subject: The Drowned God is the harsh maritime deity worshipped by the ironborn of Westeros, embodying seafaring, raiding, and a death-and-rebirth ethos tied to the sea.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Westeros
this entity surface form:
Faith of the Drowned God
this entity surface form:
Faith of the Drowned God