Earthsea
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animated fantasy film
fantasy book series
fantasy novel
fictional character
fictional universe
literary setting
short story collection
television miniseries
Earthsea is a renowned fantasy series by Ursula K. Le Guin set in an archipelago world of magic, dragons, and coming-of-age wizard Ged, exploring themes of power, balance, and identity.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Earthsea canonical | 12 |
| Earthsea cycle | 3 |
| Archipelago of Earthsea | 2 |
| Earthsea Cycle | 2 |
| Earthsea universe | 2 |
| Earthsea archipelago | 1 |
| archipelago of Earthsea | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3799288 — 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: Earthsea Context triple: [Ursula K. Le Guin, series, Earthsea]
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A.
Tales from Earthsea
Tales from Earthsea is a fantasy collection by Ursula K. Le Guin that expands her Earthsea universe with stories and lore exploring its history, magic, and cultures.
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B.
A Wizard of Earthsea
A Wizard of Earthsea is a classic fantasy novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that follows the coming-of-age journey of a young mage named Ged in the archipelago world of Earthsea.
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C.
The Tombs of Atuan
The Tombs of Atuan is a fantasy novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that follows a young priestess in a dark underground labyrinth as she confronts faith, identity, and freedom within the Earthsea universe.
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D.
The Circle of the World
The Circle of the World is the English rendering of the Old Norse title "Heimskringla," a medieval collection of sagas about the Norwegian kings traditionally attributed to Snorri Sturluson.
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E.
Kingdom of Amber
The Kingdom of Amber was a historic Rajput realm in present-day Rajasthan, India, centered on the city of Amber (near modern Jaipur) and ruled for centuries by the Kachwaha dynasty.
- 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: Earthsea Target entity description: Earthsea is a renowned fantasy series by Ursula K. Le Guin set in an archipelago world of magic, dragons, and coming-of-age wizard Ged, exploring themes of power, balance, and identity.
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A.
Tales from Earthsea
Tales from Earthsea is a fantasy collection by Ursula K. Le Guin that expands her Earthsea universe with stories and lore exploring its history, magic, and cultures.
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B.
A Wizard of Earthsea
A Wizard of Earthsea is a classic fantasy novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that follows the coming-of-age journey of a young mage named Ged in the archipelago world of Earthsea.
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C.
The Tombs of Atuan
The Tombs of Atuan is a fantasy novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that follows a young priestess in a dark underground labyrinth as she confronts faith, identity, and freedom within the Earthsea universe.
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D.
The Circle of the World
The Circle of the World is the English rendering of the Old Norse title "Heimskringla," a medieval collection of sagas about the Norwegian kings traditionally attributed to Snorri Sturluson.
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E.
Kingdom of Amber
The Kingdom of Amber was a historic Rajput realm in present-day Rajasthan, India, centered on the city of Amber (near modern Jaipur) and ruled for centuries by the Kachwaha dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated fantasy film
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fantasy book series ⓘ fantasy novel ⓘ fantasy novel ⓘ fantasy novel ⓘ fantasy novel ⓘ fantasy novel ⓘ fictional character ⓘ fictional universe ⓘ literary setting ⓘ short story collection ⓘ television miniseries ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Sparrowhawk ⓘ |
| author | Ursula K. Le Guin ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
balance
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coming of age ⓘ death ⓘ identity ⓘ names and language ⓘ power ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Ursula K. Le Guin ⓘ |
| features |
dragons
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island cultures ⓘ wizards ⓘ |
| firstWork | A Wizard of Earthsea ⓘ |
| genre | fantasy ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Earthsea (2004 miniseries)
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Tales from Earthsea ⓘ
surface form:
Tales from Earthsea (film)
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| hasWork |
A Wizard of Earthsea
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Tales from Earthsea ⓘ Tehanu ⓘ The Farthest Shore ⓘ The Other Wind ⓘ The Tombs of Atuan ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Taoism
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mythology ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| magicSystem |
equilibrium of the world
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true names ⓘ wizardry ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Ged
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King Lebannen ⓘ Ogion ⓘ Tehanu ⓘ Tenar ⓘ |
| occupation | wizard ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Earthsea self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| primaryProtagonist | Ged ⓘ |
| setting | archipelago world ⓘ |
| subgenre | high fantasy ⓘ |
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: Earthsea Description of subject: Earthsea is a renowned fantasy series by Ursula K. Le Guin set in an archipelago world of magic, dragons, and coming-of-age wizard Ged, exploring themes of power, balance, and identity.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
archipelago of Earthsea
this entity surface form:
Earthsea universe
this entity surface form:
Earthsea cycle
this entity surface form:
Earthsea Cycle
this entity surface form:
Earthsea Cycle
this entity surface form:
Archipelago of Earthsea
this entity surface form:
Earthsea cycle
this entity surface form:
Earthsea universe
this entity surface form:
Earthsea cycle
subject surface form:
A Wizard of Earthsea