Iron Horde
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The Iron Horde is a militaristic coalition of orc clans from an alternate Draenor timeline that forges advanced war machines and seeks to conquer Azeroth in the Warcraft universe.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iron Horde canonical | 11 |
| Iron Horde (alternate Draenor) | 1 |
| Iron Horde forces | 1 |
| Iron Horde orcs | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11541941 — 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: Iron Horde Context triple: [World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor, primaryAntagonistFaction, Iron Horde]
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A.
Iron Legion
The Iron Legion is a fleet of autonomous Iron Man–style combat drones created by Tony Stark to provide remote, large-scale defense and support.
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B.
Blue Horde
The Blue Horde was a medieval Mongol-Tatar khanate that emerged as an eastern successor state of the Golden Horde, centered in the steppes of Central Asia.
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C.
Iron Council
Iron Council is a 2004 fantasy novel by China Miéville set in his Bas-Lag universe, blending revolutionary politics with weird, industrialized magic.
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D.
Randvere
Randvere is a village in northern Estonia located on the Viimsi Peninsula near the capital city Tallinn.
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E.
Horde
The Horde is one of the two major playable political and military alliances in the World of Warcraft universe, traditionally composed of orcs, trolls, tauren, undead, and other races united by survival and honor.
- 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: Iron Horde Target entity description: The Iron Horde is a militaristic coalition of orc clans from an alternate Draenor timeline that forges advanced war machines and seeks to conquer Azeroth in the Warcraft universe.
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A.
Iron Legion
The Iron Legion is a fleet of autonomous Iron Man–style combat drones created by Tony Stark to provide remote, large-scale defense and support.
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B.
Forsworn
The Forsworn are a rebellious sect of Kyrian in World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands expansion who reject their ordained duty of selfless service and seek to overturn the order of Bastion.
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C.
Blue Horde
The Blue Horde was a medieval Mongol-Tatar khanate that emerged as an eastern successor state of the Golden Horde, centered in the steppes of Central Asia.
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D.
Iron Council
Iron Council is a 2004 fantasy novel by China Miéville set in his Bas-Lag universe, blending revolutionary politics with weird, industrialized magic.
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E.
Randvere
Randvere is a village in northern Estonia located on the Viimsi Peninsula near the capital city Tallinn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Warcraft faction
ⓘ
fictional military organization ⓘ orc faction ⓘ |
| alliedWith |
Laughing Skull clan (loosely, at times)
ⓘ
linked to:
Laughing Skull clan
|
| appearsIn | World of Warcraft ⓘ |
| appearsInExpansion | World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor ⓘ |
| baseOfOperations |
Hellfire Citadel (Draenor)
ⓘ
Tanaan Jungle ⓘ |
| controlsRegion |
Frostfire Ridge (portions)
ⓘ
linked to:
Frostfire Ridge
Gorgrond (portions) ⓘ
linked to:
Gorgrond
Tanaan Jungle ⓘ |
| creates |
Dark Portal (Draenor to Azeroth)
ⓘ
linked to:
Dark Portal
|
| factionType | raid antagonist faction ⓘ |
| foundedInTimeline | alternate Draenor timeline ⓘ |
| founder |
Grommash Hellscream
ⓘ
linked to:
Grom Hellscream
|
| goal |
conquer Azeroth
ⓘ
unite orc clans under iron rule ⓘ |
| homeworld |
Draenor (alternate timeline)
ⓘ
linked to:
Draenor
|
| ideology |
conquest
ⓘ
militarism ⓘ |
| includesClan |
Blackrock clan
ⓘ
Bleeding Hollow clan ⓘ Shadowmoon clan (faction of) ⓘ
linked to:
Shadowmoon clan
Shattered Hand clan ⓘ Thunderlord clan ⓘ
linked to:
Warsong clan
Warsong clan ⓘ |
| leader |
Grommash Hellscream
ⓘ
linked to:
Grom Hellscream
|
| memberRace |
ogre
ⓘ
orc ⓘ saberon ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Blackhand
ⓘ
linked to:
Blackhand the Destroyer
Durotan (initially, in some timelines) ⓘ
linked to:
Durotan
Grommash Hellscream ⓘ
linked to:
Grom Hellscream
Kargath Bladefist ⓘ Kilrogg Deadeye ⓘ
linked to:
Kil'rogg Deadeye
Ner'zhul ⓘ |
| notableStructure |
Blackrock Foundry
ⓘ
Iron Bastion ⓘ Iron Docks ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Draenor Frostwolf clan
ⓘ
linked to:
Frostwolf clan
|
| primaryEnemy |
Alliance
ⓘ
Azeroth ⓘ Draenei of Draenor ⓘ
linked to:
draenei
Horde ⓘ |
| rejects | Burning Legion blood corruption ⓘ |
| statusByEndOfExpansion | defeated and fragmented ⓘ |
| technologyLevel | industrialized war machine production ⓘ |
| universe | Warcraft universe ⓘ |
| usesWeaponType |
gunpowder weapons
ⓘ
iron stars ⓘ iron war machines ⓘ siege engines ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Iron Horde Description of subject: The Iron Horde is a militaristic coalition of orc clans from an alternate Draenor timeline that forges advanced war machines and seeks to conquer Azeroth in the Warcraft universe.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Iron Horde
linked to: Iron Horde
linked to: Iron Horde