Vikings
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Vikings is a historical drama television series that follows the legendary Norse hero Ragnar Lothbrok and his fellow warriors as they explore, raid, and battle across medieval Europe.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vikings canonical | 26 |
| Vikings (TV series) | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4283409 — 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: Vikings Context triple: [Trevor Morris, notableWork, Vikings]
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Vikings
The Vikings are the athletic teams representing Portland State University in NCAA Division I sports.
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Vikings
Vikings were seafaring Norse peoples from Scandinavia known for their raids, exploration, trade, and settlement across wide areas of Europe and the North Atlantic during the late eighth to early eleventh centuries.
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C.
Vikings
The Vikings are the athletic teams representing Cleveland State University in NCAA Division I sports.
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D.
Viking
"Viking" is a Russian historical epic film depicting the rise of Prince Vladimir and the Christianization of Kievan Rus.
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E.
Viking
Viking is a prominent American publishing imprint known for releasing influential fiction and nonfiction titles, including many literary classics and bestsellers.
- 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: Vikings Target entity description: Vikings is a historical drama television series that follows the legendary Norse hero Ragnar Lothbrok and his fellow warriors as they explore, raid, and battle across medieval Europe.
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A.
Vikings
The Vikings are the athletic teams representing Portland State University in NCAA Division I sports.
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B.
Vikings
Vikings were seafaring Norse peoples from Scandinavia known for their raids, exploration, trade, and settlement across wide areas of Europe and the North Atlantic during the late eighth to early eleventh centuries.
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C.
Vikings
The Vikings are the athletic teams representing Cleveland State University in NCAA Division I sports.
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D.
Viking
"Viking" is a Russian historical epic film depicting the rise of Prince Vladimir and the Christianization of Kievan Rus.
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E.
Viking
Viking is a prominent American publishing imprint known for releasing influential fiction and nonfiction titles, including many literary classics and bestsellers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical drama television series
ⓘ
television series ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Norse sagas
NERFINISHED
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legend of Ragnar Lothbrok ⓘ |
| composer | Trevor Morris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Canada
ⓘ
Ireland ⓘ |
| creator | Michael Hirst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | MGM Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalAired | 2020-12-30 ⓘ |
| firstAired | 2013-03-03 ⓘ |
| genre |
action
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adventure ⓘ historical drama ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Norse mythology
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Viking culture ⓘ exploration ⓘ medieval warfare ⓘ political power struggles ⓘ |
| leadActor |
Alex Høgh Andersen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alexander Ludwig NERFINISHED ⓘ Clive Standen NERFINISHED ⓘ Gustaf Skarsgård NERFINISHED ⓘ Katheryn Winnick NERFINISHED ⓘ Travis Fimmel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Bjorn Ironside
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Floki NERFINISHED ⓘ Ivar the Boneless NERFINISHED ⓘ King Ecbert NERFINISHED ⓘ Lagertha NERFINISHED ⓘ Ragnar Lothbrok NERFINISHED ⓘ Rollo NERFINISHED ⓘ Ubbe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 89 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 6 ⓘ |
| openingThemePerformer | Fever Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingThemeSong | If I Had a Heart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalChannelType | cable television network ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | History NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
Norse exploration of England
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Norse exploration of North America ⓘ Norse exploration of the Mediterranean ⓘ Norse raids on Francia ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Take 5 Productions
NERFINISHED
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World 2000 Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Viking Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spinOff | Vikings: Valhalla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Vikings Description of subject: Vikings is a historical drama television series that follows the legendary Norse hero Ragnar Lothbrok and his fellow warriors as they explore, raid, and battle across medieval Europe.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Vikings (TV series)
this entity surface form:
Vikings (TV series)
this entity surface form:
Vikings (TV series)