Faerie
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Faerie is a vast, magical otherworld of enchantment, danger, and ancient powers that serves as the primary fantastical realm in Neil Gaiman’s novel "Stardust."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Faerie canonical | 4 |
| Faerie (Stardust) | 1 |
| Faerie (mythic realm) | 1 |
| Faerie market | 1 |
| Tristran’s journey into Faerie | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11020104 — 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: Faerie Context triple: [Stardust, setting, Faerie]
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A.
Faerie Land
Faerie Land is the richly allegorical, fantastical realm that serves as the primary setting of Edmund Spenser’s epic poem *The Faerie Queene*.
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B.
Fey
Fey is the surname of American comedian, writer, actress, and producer Tina Fey, known for her work on "Saturday Night Live" and "30 Rock."
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C.
Wards of Faerie
Wards of Faerie is a fantasy novel by Terry Brooks set in his Shannara universe, launching The Dark Legacy of Shannara trilogy with a quest centered on lost Elfstones and ancient magic.
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D.
Fairy May
Fairy May is a whimsical, childlike patient in the play "The Curious Savage," known for her fanciful stories and poignant blend of humor and vulnerability.
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E.
Night Fae
The Night Fae are a mystical, nature-attuned covenant in World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands expansion, devoted to nurturing and shepherding the souls of the dead within the enchanted realm of Ardenweald.
- 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: Faerie Target entity description: Faerie is a vast, magical otherworld of enchantment, danger, and ancient powers that serves as the primary fantastical realm in Neil Gaiman’s novel "Stardust."
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A.
Faerie Land
Faerie Land is the richly allegorical, fantastical realm that serves as the primary setting of Edmund Spenser’s epic poem *The Faerie Queene*.
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B.
Fey
Fey is the surname of American comedian, writer, actress, and producer Tina Fey, known for her work on "Saturday Night Live" and "30 Rock."
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C.
Wards of Faerie
Wards of Faerie is a fantasy novel by Terry Brooks set in his Shannara universe, launching The Dark Legacy of Shannara trilogy with a quest centered on lost Elfstones and ancient magic.
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D.
Fairy May
Fairy May is a whimsical, childlike patient in the play "The Curious Savage," known for her fanciful stories and poignant blend of humor and vulnerability.
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E.
Night Fae
The Night Fae are a mystical, nature-attuned covenant in World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands expansion, devoted to nurturing and shepherding the souls of the dead within the enchanted realm of Ardenweald.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional realm
ⓘ
magical world ⓘ secondary world setting ⓘ |
| accessedVia | a gap in the wall near the village of Wall ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Stardust ⓘ |
| contains |
Stormhold
ⓘ
enchanted forests ⓘ faeries ⓘ flying pirate ship Caspartine ⓘ ghosts ⓘ magical creatures ⓘ talking animals ⓘ the kingdom of Stormhold ⓘ the market at the wall ⓘ the sky where stars take human form ⓘ witches ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Wall ⓘ |
| createdBy | Neil Gaiman ⓘ |
| describedAs |
ancient
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dangerous ⓘ enchanted ⓘ magical ⓘ otherworld ⓘ vast ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Stardust (1997–1999, depending on edition) ⓘ |
| governedBy | various magical laws ⓘ |
| hasFunction | primary fantastical realm in the novel Stardust ⓘ |
| hasGenreAssociation | fantasy literature ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeRole | place where ordinary reality and magic intersect ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
mortals are vulnerable to enchantment
ⓘ
time behaves differently than in the human world ⓘ |
| inhabitedBy |
Tristran Thorn
ⓘ
Yvaine ⓘ the Lilim ⓘ the Lord of Stormhold ⓘ
linked to:
Lord of Stormhold
the sons of the Lord of Stormhold ⓘ
linked to:
Lord of Stormhold
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| inspiredBy | European fairy folklore (inferred from style and name) ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| nameDerivedFrom | archaic spelling of fairy ⓘ |
| partOf | the fictional universe of Stardust ⓘ |
| separatedFrom | the village of Wall by a stone wall ⓘ |
| settingFor |
Tristran Thorn’s quest to retrieve a fallen star
ⓘ
the pursuit of Yvaine by the Lilim ⓘ the succession struggle for Stormhold ⓘ |
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: Faerie Description of subject: Faerie is a vast, magical otherworld of enchantment, danger, and ancient powers that serves as the primary fantastical realm in Neil Gaiman’s novel "Stardust."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
subject linked to:
Wall, a fictional village in England
linked to: Faerie
subject linked to:
Wall, a fictional village in England
linked to: Faerie
linked to: Faerie
linked to: Faerie