Odin's eye
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Odin's eye is the mythic eye that the Norse god Odin sacrificed in exchange for wisdom and knowledge.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Odin's eye canonical | 1 |
| Odin's missing eye | 1 |
| Odin’s eye | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10627051 — 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: Odin's eye Context triple: [Mímir's well, sacrificeType, Odin's eye]
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A.
Great Eye
The Great Eye is the fiery, lidless manifestation of Sauron’s will and surveillance in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, most prominently depicted atop the Dark Tower of Barad-dûr in The Lord of the Rings.
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B.
Divine Eye
The Divine Eye is the central sacred emblem of Caodaism, representing the all-seeing presence and guidance of the Supreme Being.
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C.
Valknut
The Valknut is an ancient Norse symbol of three interlocked triangles closely associated with the god Odin and themes of death, battle, and the afterlife.
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D.
Eye of Ra
The Eye of Ra is an ancient Egyptian symbol and deity representing the sun god Ra’s protective, vengeful, and all-seeing power, often personified by goddesses such as Wadjet.
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E.
The Eye
The Eye is a horror film best known for its supernatural storyline involving a woman who begins seeing disturbing visions after an eye transplant.
- 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: Odin's eye Target entity description: Odin's eye is the mythic eye that the Norse god Odin sacrificed in exchange for wisdom and knowledge.
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A.
Great Eye
The Great Eye is the fiery, lidless manifestation of Sauron’s will and surveillance in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, most prominently depicted atop the Dark Tower of Barad-dûr in The Lord of the Rings.
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B.
Divine Eye
The Divine Eye is the central sacred emblem of Caodaism, representing the all-seeing presence and guidance of the Supreme Being.
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C.
Valknut
The Valknut is an ancient Norse symbol of three interlocked triangles closely associated with the god Odin and themes of death, battle, and the afterlife.
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D.
Eye of Ra
The Eye of Ra is an ancient Egyptian symbol and deity representing the sun god Ra’s protective, vengeful, and all-seeing power, often personified by goddesses such as Wadjet.
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E.
The Eye
The Eye is a horror film best known for its supernatural storyline involving a woman who begins seeing disturbing visions after an eye transplant.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
body part in mythology
ⓘ
mythological object ⓘ |
| appearsInTradition | Old Norse literature ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity | Odin ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Well of Mímir
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linked to:
Mímisbrunnr
|
| associatedWithSymbol |
one-eyed Odin
ⓘ
linked to:
Odin
|
| consequenceOf | Odin's quest for knowledge ⓘ |
| culturalRole | motif of trading physical wholeness for insight ⓘ |
| depictedAs | single eye ⓘ |
| hasStatus |
hidden in Mímir's well
ⓘ
lost ⓘ |
| languageOfPrimarySources |
Old Norse
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linked to:
Old Norse language
|
| locatedInMythology | Norse mythology ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Gylfaginning
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Poetic Edda ⓘ Prose Edda ⓘ Völuspá ⓘ |
| mythicFunction |
payment for a drink from Mímir's well
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source of Odin's enhanced wisdom ⓘ |
| partOf | Odin ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Odin's missing eye
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linked to:
Odin's eye
Odin's self-sacrifice on Yggdrasil ⓘ |
| sacrificedAt |
Mímir's well
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Mímisbrunnr ⓘ |
| sacrificedBy | Odin ⓘ |
| sacrificedTo | Mímir ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
knowledge
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sacrifice ⓘ the cost of wisdom ⓘ wisdom ⓘ |
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: Odin's eye Description of subject: Odin's eye is the mythic eye that the Norse god Odin sacrificed in exchange for wisdom and knowledge.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Odin's eye
linked to: Odin's eye