May Gamgee
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Character in The Lord of the Rings
Character in Tolkien legendarium
Fictional character
Hobbit
Shire-hobbit
May Gamgee is a hobbit of the Shire from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known as one of the daughters in the large Gamgee family to which Samwise Gamgee belongs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| May Gamgee canonical | 10 |
| Marigold Gamgee | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11151913 — 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: May Gamgee Context triple: [Hamfast Gamgee, child, May Gamgee]
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A.
Hamfast Gamgee
Hamfast Gamgee, often called the Gaffer, is a humble Hobbit gardener of the Shire in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium and the father of Samwise Gamgee.
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B.
Daisy Gamgee
Daisy Gamgee is a hobbit of the Shire from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known as one of the daughters in the large Gamgee family connected to Samwise Gamgee.
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C.
Belladonna Took
Belladonna Took is a spirited hobbit of the adventurous Took family and the mother of Bilbo Baggins in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
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D.
Bungo Baggins
Bungo Baggins is a well-to-do hobbit of the Shire, father of Bilbo Baggins, known for his comfortable respectability and role in establishing the Baggins family’s home at Bag End.
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E.
Samwise Gamgee
Samwise Gamgee is a loyal and humble hobbit of the Shire who becomes Frodo Baggins’ steadfast companion and moral anchor on the quest to destroy the One Ring.
- 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: May Gamgee Target entity description: May Gamgee is a hobbit of the Shire from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known as one of the daughters in the large Gamgee family to which Samwise Gamgee belongs.
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A.
Hamfast Gamgee
Hamfast Gamgee, often called the Gaffer, is a humble Hobbit gardener of the Shire in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium and the father of Samwise Gamgee.
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B.
Daisy Gamgee
Daisy Gamgee is a hobbit of the Shire from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known as one of the daughters in the large Gamgee family connected to Samwise Gamgee.
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C.
Belladonna Took
Belladonna Took is a spirited hobbit of the adventurous Took family and the mother of Bilbo Baggins in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
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D.
Bungo Baggins
Bungo Baggins is a well-to-do hobbit of the Shire, father of Bilbo Baggins, known for his comfortable respectability and role in establishing the Baggins family’s home at Bag End.
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E.
Samwise Gamgee
Samwise Gamgee is a loyal and humble hobbit of the Shire who becomes Frodo Baggins’ steadfast companion and moral anchor on the quest to destroy the One Ring.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Character in The Lord of the Rings
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Character in Tolkien legendarium ⓘ Fictional character ⓘ Hobbit ⓘ Shire-hobbit ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Lord of the Rings appendices
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The Lord of the Rings family trees ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ |
| culture |
Shire-hobbits
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linked to:
Hobbits
|
| ethnicity | Hobbit of the Shire ⓘ |
| family | Gamgee family ⓘ |
| familyName | Gamgee ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | Legendarium-only character ⓘ |
| gender | Female ⓘ |
| hasFather | Hamfast Gamgee ⓘ |
| hasMother | Bell Gamgee ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Daisy Gamgee
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Halfred Gamgee ⓘ Hamson Gamgee ⓘ Marigold Gamgee ⓘ Samwise Gamgee ⓘ |
| homeLocation |
Hobbiton
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The Shire ⓘ |
| language | Westron ⓘ |
| race | Hobbit ⓘ |
| relativeOf |
Frodo Baggins (by friendship through Samwise)
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linked to:
Frodo Baggins
Samwise Gamgee ⓘ |
| residence |
Hobbiton
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The Shire ⓘ |
| universe | Middle-earth ⓘ |
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: May Gamgee Description of subject: May Gamgee is a hobbit of the Shire from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known as one of the daughters in the large Gamgee family to which Samwise Gamgee belongs.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: May Gamgee
linked to: May Gamgee
linked to: May Gamgee
linked to: May Gamgee
subject linked to:
The Gamgee family