High Sparrow
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The High Sparrow is a zealous religious leader in "Game of Thrones" who rises to power in King's Landing by championing the Faith of the Seven and challenging the authority of the ruling nobility.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| High Sparrow canonical | 16 |
| High Sparrow (A Song of Ice and Fire) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3285148 — 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: High Sparrow Context triple: [Cersei Lannister, enemy, High Sparrow]
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A.
Giles
Giles is the given name of Lytton Strachey, the influential English writer and critic associated with the Bloomsbury Group.
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B.
Giles
Giles is a lonely, aging gay artist and Elisa's compassionate neighbor and confidant in Guillermo del Toro's film "The Shape of Water."
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C.
Mr. Furnival
Mr. Furnival is a prominent London barrister in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm," known for his legal skill, social ambition, and complex personal life.
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D.
Baron Okingham
Baron Okingham is a noble title historically associated with Prince George of Denmark, the consort of Queen Anne of Great Britain.
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E.
Squire Cass
Squire Cass is a wealthy, domineering landowner and the most prominent man in the village of Raveloe in George Eliot’s novel "Silas Marner."
- 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: High Sparrow Target entity description: The High Sparrow is a zealous religious leader in "Game of Thrones" who rises to power in King's Landing by championing the Faith of the Seven and challenging the authority of the ruling nobility.
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A.
Giles
Giles is the given name of Lytton Strachey, the influential English writer and critic associated with the Bloomsbury Group.
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B.
Giles
Giles is a lonely, aging gay artist and Elisa's compassionate neighbor and confidant in Guillermo del Toro's film "The Shape of Water."
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C.
Mr. Furnival
Mr. Furnival is a prominent London barrister in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm," known for his legal skill, social ambition, and complex personal life.
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D.
Baron Okingham
Baron Okingham is a noble title historically associated with Prince George of Denmark, the consort of Queen Anne of Great Britain.
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E.
Squire Cass
Squire Cass is a wealthy, domineering landowner and the most prominent man in the village of Raveloe in George Eliot’s novel "Silas Marner."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in Game of Thrones
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| adaptedBy |
D. B. Weiss
ⓘ
David Benioff ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Faith Militant
ⓘ
Poor Fellows ⓘ Warrior's Sons ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
A Song of Ice and Fire
ⓘ
Game of Thrones ⓘ |
| appearsInSeason |
Game of Thrones season 5
ⓘ
surface form:
Game of Thrones Season 5
Game of Thrones season 6 ⓘ
surface form:
Game of Thrones Season 6
|
| associatedWithLocation | Great Sept of Baelor ⓘ |
| basedOn |
High Septon
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surface form:
High Septon (A Feast for Crows)
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| baseOfOperations | King's Landing ⓘ |
| challenges | authority of the Iron Throne ⓘ |
| createdBy | George R. R. Martin ⓘ |
| deathCause | wildfire explosion ⓘ |
| deathCity | King's Landing ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Great Sept of Baelor ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Cersei Lannister
ⓘ
House Lannister ⓘ House Tyrell ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The World of Ice and Fire
ⓘ
surface form:
World of Ice and Fire
|
| firstAppearanceSeason | Season 5 ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceTV |
The High Sparrow
ⓘ
surface form:
High Sparrow (Game of Thrones episode)
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| ideology | religious fundamentalism ⓘ |
| kingdom | Seven Kingdoms ⓘ |
| lastAppearanceTV |
Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 10
ⓘ
surface form:
The Winds of Winter (Game of Thrones episode)
|
| methodOfRule | religious courts ⓘ |
| notableAction |
instituting trials by the Faith
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ordering Cersei Lannister's walk of atonement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
imprisoning Cersei Lannister
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imprisoning Margaery Tyrell ⓘ leading religious uprising in King's Landing ⓘ restoring the Faith Militant ⓘ |
| occupation |
religious reformer
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spiritual leader ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jonathan Pryce ⓘ |
| powerBase | smallfolk of King's Landing ⓘ |
| religion | Faith of the Seven ⓘ |
| title |
High Septon
ⓘ
High Sparrow self-link ⓘ |
| traits |
austere
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humble appearance ⓘ zealous ⓘ |
| worships |
The Seven
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surface form:
the Seven
|
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: High Sparrow Description of subject: The High Sparrow is a zealous religious leader in "Game of Thrones" who rises to power in King's Landing by championing the Faith of the Seven and challenging the authority of the ruling nobility.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tommen Baratheon
this entity surface form:
High Sparrow (A Song of Ice and Fire)