Trolls
E901186
Trolls are large, brutish, and often dim-witted creatures of Middle-earth, bred by the dark lord Morgoth to serve as powerful shock troops and instruments of terror.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Trolls canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11048094 — 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: Trolls Context triple: [Morgoth, created, Trolls]
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A.
Trolls
Trolls is an animated musical comedy film franchise known for its colorful world, upbeat pop soundtrack, and characters based on the classic troll dolls.
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B.
The Trolls
The Trolls were a hard-edged rock backing band formed by Iggy Pop in the early 2000s, best known for recording and touring with him on albums like "Beat 'Em Up" and "Skull Ring."
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C.
The Boxtrolls
The Boxtrolls is a 2014 stop-motion animated fantasy-comedy film by Laika about a young boy raised by underground trash-collecting creatures who must save them from an evil exterminator.
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D.
the Troll
The Troll is a grotesque, antagonistic character in the "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" musical episode "The Nightman Cometh," serving as a comic villain in the gang's absurd stage production.
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E.
Monstars
The Monstars are the villainous alien basketball team that serves as the primary antagonists in the animated–live action film "Space Jam."
- 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: Trolls Target entity description: Trolls are large, brutish, and often dim-witted creatures of Middle-earth, bred by the dark lord Morgoth to serve as powerful shock troops and instruments of terror.
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A.
Trolls
Trolls is an animated musical comedy film franchise known for its colorful world, upbeat pop soundtrack, and characters based on the classic troll dolls.
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B.
The Trolls
The Trolls were a hard-edged rock backing band formed by Iggy Pop in the early 2000s, best known for recording and touring with him on albums like "Beat 'Em Up" and "Skull Ring."
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C.
The Boxtrolls
The Boxtrolls is a 2014 stop-motion animated fantasy-comedy film by Laika about a young boy raised by underground trash-collecting creatures who must save them from an evil exterminator.
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D.
the Troll
The Troll is a grotesque, antagonistic character in the "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" musical episode "The Nightman Cometh," serving as a comic villain in the gang's absurd stage production.
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E.
Monstars
The Monstars are the villainous alien basketball team that serves as the primary antagonists in the animated–live action film "Space Jam."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Trolls Description of subject: Trolls are large, brutish, and often dim-witted creatures of Middle-earth, bred by the dark lord Morgoth to serve as powerful shock troops and instruments of terror.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.