Waltraute
E804195
Waltraute is one of the Valkyries in Richard Wagner’s opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, appearing prominently in the final opera Götterdämmerung.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waltraute canonical | 1 |
| Waltraute (Valkyrie sisters in Die Walküre) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9507948 — 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: Waltraute Context triple: [Götterdämmerung, featuresCharacter, Waltraute]
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A.
Wulfhild
Wulfhild was a daughter of the English king Æthelred the Unready, belonging to the royal House of Wessex in the late 10th–early 11th century.
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B.
Fridwulfa
Fridwulfa is a giantess from the Harry Potter series, best known as the mother of Rubeus Hagrid and the giant Grawp.
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C.
Ermentrud
Ermentrud is a given name, typically a historical or medieval European female name, that serves as a variant form of Ermintrude.
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D.
Ingrith
Ingrith is a feminine given name, likely a variant of the Scandinavian name Ingrid.
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E.
Thjodhild
Thjodhild was a Norse woman of the Viking Age, best known as one of the earliest Christian converts in Greenland and for building the first church there.
- 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: Waltraute Target entity description: Waltraute is one of the Valkyries in Richard Wagner’s opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, appearing prominently in the final opera Götterdämmerung.
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A.
Wulfhild
Wulfhild was a daughter of the English king Æthelred the Unready, belonging to the royal House of Wessex in the late 10th–early 11th century.
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B.
Fridwulfa
Fridwulfa is a giantess from the Harry Potter series, best known as the mother of Rubeus Hagrid and the giant Grawp.
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C.
Ermentrud
Ermentrud is a given name, typically a historical or medieval European female name, that serves as a variant form of Ermintrude.
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D.
Ingrith
Ingrith is a feminine given name, likely a variant of the Scandinavian name Ingrid.
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E.
Thjodhild
Thjodhild was a Norse woman of the Viking Age, best known as one of the earliest Christian converts in Greenland and for building the first church there.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Valkyrie
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ opera character ⓘ |
| allegiance | Wotan ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Der Ring des Nibelungen
ⓘ
Die Walküre ⓘ Götterdämmerung ⓘ |
| basedOn | Valkyries from Norse mythology ⓘ |
| createdBy | Richard Wagner ⓘ |
| dramaticFunction | conveys the gods’ despair over the fate of Valhalla ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | mythic world of Der Ring des Nibelungen ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceOfWorkAppearedIn | 1876 Bayreuth Festival ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | music drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | German ⓘ |
| nationalityOfCreator | German ⓘ |
| notableScene | pleads with Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung Act I ⓘ |
| occupation | Valkyrie ⓘ |
| operaCyclePosition | appears most prominently in the fourth opera Götterdämmerung ⓘ |
| parent | Wotan ⓘ |
| partOf | Wagnerian canon ⓘ |
| relative | Fricka ⓘ |
| roleInWork | messenger of the gods ⓘ |
| sibling |
Brünnhilde
ⓘ
Gerhilde ⓘ Grimgerde ⓘ Helmwige ⓘ Ortlinde ⓘ Rossweisse ⓘ Schwertleite ⓘ Siegrune ⓘ Waltraute (Valkyrie sisters in Die Walküre) ⓘ
linked to:
Waltraute
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| voiceType | mezzo-soprano ⓘ |
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: Waltraute Description of subject: Waltraute is one of the Valkyries in Richard Wagner’s opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, appearing prominently in the final opera Götterdämmerung.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.