Maw
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The Maw is a terrifying end-of-the-line afterlife prison in World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands, where the most irredeemable souls are eternally tormented under the Jailer’s dominion.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maw canonical | 3 |
| the Maw | 2 |
| English name "The Maw" used in-game | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11547121 — 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: Maw Context triple: [Shadowlands, threatenedBy, Maw]
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A.
Mawani
Mawani is Saudi Arabia’s national ports authority, responsible for overseeing, regulating, and developing the country’s seaport infrastructure and operations.
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B.
Mawteni
Mawteni is an alternative Romanized spelling of "Mawtini," the famous Arabic patriotic poem and anthem widely associated with Palestinian and Iraqi national identity.
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C.
Mawé
Mawé is an indigenous Tupian language spoken by the Sateré-Mawé people of the Brazilian Amazon.
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D.
Melipal
Melipal is one of the Unit Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope array at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, used for advanced optical and infrared astronomical observations.
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E.
Mawanella
Mawanella is a town in central Sri Lanka known as a key transit point on the Colombo–Kandy road and for its surrounding rubber and tea plantations.
- 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: Maw Target entity description: The Maw is a terrifying end-of-the-line afterlife prison in World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands, where the most irredeemable souls are eternally tormented under the Jailer’s dominion.
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A.
Mawani
Mawani is Saudi Arabia’s national ports authority, responsible for overseeing, regulating, and developing the country’s seaport infrastructure and operations.
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B.
Mawteni
Mawteni is an alternative Romanized spelling of "Mawtini," the famous Arabic patriotic poem and anthem widely associated with Palestinian and Iraqi national identity.
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C.
Mawé
Mawé is an indigenous Tupian language spoken by the Sateré-Mawé people of the Brazilian Amazon.
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D.
Melipal
Melipal is one of the Unit Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope array at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, used for advanced optical and infrared astronomical observations.
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E.
Mawanella
Mawanella is a town in central Sri Lanka known as a key transit point on the Colombo–Kandy road and for its surrounding rubber and tea plantations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
afterlife realm
ⓘ
location in World of Warcraft ⓘ prison ⓘ zone in Shadowlands expansion ⓘ |
| accessedVia | Oribos ⓘ |
| alignment | cosmology: Death ⓘ |
| appearsIn | World of Warcraft: Shadowlands ⓘ |
| appearsInGame | World of Warcraft ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Jailer
ⓘ
Torghast, Tower of the Damned ⓘ |
| contains | Torghast, Tower of the Damned ⓘ |
| cosmicRole | sink for the most dangerous souls in the Shadowlands ⓘ |
| currency | Stygia ⓘ |
| enemyType |
Mawsworn Forsworn
ⓘ
linked to:
Mawsworn
Mawsworn Kyrian ⓘ
linked to:
Kyrian
various tormented souls ⓘ |
| factionPresence |
Covenants of the Shadowlands
ⓘ
linked to:
The Covenants of the Shadowlands
|
| fictionalUniverse | Warcraft universe ⓘ |
| gameContentType | endgame zone ⓘ |
| governedBy | Jailer ⓘ |
| inhabitedBy |
Mawsworn
ⓘ
damned souls ⓘ |
| introducedInPatch |
World of Warcraft patch 9.0.1 (Shadowlands pre-patch)
ⓘ
linked to:
World of Warcraft patch 9.0.1
|
| languageContext |
English name "The Maw" used in-game
ⓘ
linked to:
Maw
|
| locatedIn | Shadowlands ⓘ |
| mechanic | Eye of the Jailer threat system ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central setting for the Jailer storyline
ⓘ
origin point of many threats to the Shadowlands ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being end-of-the-line afterlife prison
ⓘ
harsh and inescapable punishment ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Covenant forces
ⓘ
champions of Azeroth ⓘ |
| partOf | Shadowlands ⓘ |
| playerInteraction |
area for collecting Stygia currency
ⓘ
zone for quests and endgame activities ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
afterlife prison for irredeemable souls
ⓘ
eternal torment of condemned souls ⓘ |
| relatedLocation |
Desmotaeron
ⓘ
Korthia ⓘ Perdition Hold ⓘ The Tremaculum ⓘ |
| ruledBy | Jailer ⓘ |
| theme |
domination
ⓘ
eternal punishment ⓘ hopelessness ⓘ |
| travelRestrictions | limited mounting (initially no mounts allowed) ⓘ |
| visualStyle |
broken terrain and soul-rivers
ⓘ
dark desolate landscape ⓘ |
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: Maw Description of subject: The Maw is a terrifying end-of-the-line afterlife prison in World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands, where the most irredeemable souls are eternally tormented under the Jailer’s dominion.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Maw
linked to: Maw
linked to: Maw