Mulgarath
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Mulgarath is the primary shapeshifting ogre antagonist in The Spiderwick Chronicles, seeking to obtain a powerful field guide to dominate the magical world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mulgarath canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9660941 — 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: Mulgarath Context triple: [The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008 film), featuresCharacter, Mulgarath]
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A.
Dumnorix
Dumnorix was a powerful Aeduan noble and anti-Roman leader in Gaul during Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars.
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B.
Mordaunt
Mordaunt is a vengeful and fanatical antagonist in Alexandre Dumas’ d'Artagnan romances, known as the ruthless son of Milady de Winter who seeks to destroy the musketeers.
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C.
Gaheris
Gaheris is a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, known as one of King Arthur’s nephews and a member of the Orkney clan.
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D.
Rankoth Vehera
Rankoth Vehera is a large, historically significant Buddhist stupa in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, renowned for its monumental brick construction and association with the island’s medieval Sinhalese kingdom.
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E.
Rasalhague
Rasalhague is the brightest star in the constellation Ophiuchus, representing the head of the serpent-bearer in the night sky.
- 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: Mulgarath Target entity description: Mulgarath is the primary shapeshifting ogre antagonist in The Spiderwick Chronicles, seeking to obtain a powerful field guide to dominate the magical world.
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A.
Dumnorix
Dumnorix was a powerful Aeduan noble and anti-Roman leader in Gaul during Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars.
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B.
Mordaunt
Mordaunt is a vengeful and fanatical antagonist in Alexandre Dumas’ d'Artagnan romances, known as the ruthless son of Milady de Winter who seeks to destroy the musketeers.
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C.
Gaheris
Gaheris is a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, known as one of King Arthur’s nephews and a member of the Orkney clan.
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D.
Rankoth Vehera
Rankoth Vehera is a large, historically significant Buddhist stupa in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, renowned for its monumental brick construction and association with the island’s medieval Sinhalese kingdom.
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E.
Rasalhague
Rasalhague is the brightest star in the constellation Ophiuchus, representing the head of the serpent-bearer in the night sky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ ogre ⓘ shapeshifter ⓘ |
| ability | shapeshifting ⓘ |
| alignment | evil ⓘ |
| allyOf |
a shapeshifting snake
ⓘ
a troll ⓘ goblins ⓘ hobgoblins ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Spiderwick Chronicles
ⓘ
The Spiderwick Chronicles film adaptation ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium |
film
ⓘ
novels ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
The Spiderwick Chronicles book series
ⓘ
linked to:
The Spiderwick Chronicles
|
| commands | goblin army ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Holly Black
ⓘ
Tony DiTerlizzi ⓘ |
| deathCause | eaten by Hogsqueal (film adaptation) ⓘ |
| defeatedBy |
Hogsqueal
ⓘ
Jared Grace ⓘ Mallory Grace ⓘ Simon Grace ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Arthur Spiderwick
ⓘ
Jared Grace ⓘ Mallory Grace ⓘ Simon Grace ⓘ Thimbletack ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Spiderwick universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Spiderwick Chronicles
|
| firstAppearance | The Field Guide ⓘ |
| genre | children's fantasy literature character ⓘ |
| goal |
to dominate the magical world
ⓘ
to obtain Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide ⓘ |
| language | English (spoken in film) ⓘ |
| motivation |
control over magical creatures
ⓘ
power ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
cruelty
ⓘ
cunning ⓘ deceptiveness ⓘ |
| plans | use knowledge in the Field Guide as a weapon ⓘ |
| residesIn | Spiderwick Estate grounds (surrounding area) ⓘ |
| roleInWork | primary antagonist in The Spiderwick Chronicles ⓘ |
| seeksObject | Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You ⓘ |
| species | ogre ⓘ |
| targetOf | resistance by the Grace children ⓘ |
| threatTo |
Grace family
ⓘ
magical creatures ⓘ |
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: Mulgarath Description of subject: Mulgarath is the primary shapeshifting ogre antagonist in The Spiderwick Chronicles, seeking to obtain a powerful field guide to dominate the magical world.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.