The Elfstones of Shannara
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The Elfstones of Shannara is a classic epic fantasy novel by Terry Brooks that follows a young hero’s quest to protect the Elven race from demonic forces using ancient magical stones.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Elfstones of Shannara canonical | 10 |
| Elfstones of Shannara | 2 |
| The Elfstones of Shannara (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4666571 — 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: The Elfstones of Shannara Context triple: [Shannara series, hasPart, The Elfstones of Shannara]
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A.
The Wishsong of Shannara
The Wishsong of Shannara is a fantasy novel by Terry Brooks set in his Shannara universe, following siblings Brin and Jair Ohmsford as they confront a dark magic threatening their world.
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B.
The Sword of Shannara
The Sword of Shannara is a classic epic fantasy novel that launched Terry Brooks’s Shannara series, following a young hero’s quest to wield a magical sword against a dark warlock in a post-apocalyptic world.
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Shannara series
The Shannara series is a popular epic fantasy book saga by Terry Brooks, set in a post-apocalyptic world where magic has replaced advanced technology.
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D.
The Elves of Cintra
The Elves of Cintra is a post-apocalyptic fantasy novel by Terry Brooks in the Shannara universe, following survivors with emerging magical abilities as they navigate a world reshaped by cataclysm.
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E.
Tehanu
Tehanu is a fantasy novel in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea series that revisits the archipelago through a more intimate, feminist lens, focusing on the lives of Tenar and a mysterious, traumatized child.
- 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: The Elfstones of Shannara Target entity description: The Elfstones of Shannara is a classic epic fantasy novel by Terry Brooks that follows a young hero’s quest to protect the Elven race from demonic forces using ancient magical stones.
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A.
The Wishsong of Shannara
The Wishsong of Shannara is a fantasy novel by Terry Brooks set in his Shannara universe, following siblings Brin and Jair Ohmsford as they confront a dark magic threatening their world.
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B.
The Sword of Shannara
The Sword of Shannara is a classic epic fantasy novel that launched Terry Brooks’s Shannara series, following a young hero’s quest to wield a magical sword against a dark warlock in a post-apocalyptic world.
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C.
Shannara series
The Shannara series is a popular epic fantasy book saga by Terry Brooks, set in a post-apocalyptic world where magic has replaced advanced technology.
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D.
The Elves of Cintra
The Elves of Cintra is a post-apocalyptic fantasy novel by Terry Brooks in the Shannara universe, following survivors with emerging magical abilities as they navigate a world reshaped by cataclysm.
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E.
Tehanu
Tehanu is a fantasy novel in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea series that revisits the archipelago through a more intimate, feminist lens, focusing on the lives of Tenar and a mysterious, traumatized child.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: The Elfstones of Shannara Description of subject: The Elfstones of Shannara is a classic epic fantasy novel by Terry Brooks that follows a young hero’s quest to protect the Elven race from demonic forces using ancient magical stones.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Elfstones of Shannara
linked to: The Elfstones of Shannara
subject linked to:
Allanon in The Shannara Chronicles
subject linked to:
Allanon in The Shannara Chronicles
linked to: The Elfstones of Shannara