Goblin
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Goblins in World of Warcraft are a cunning, profit-obsessed, and technologically inventive race known for their explosives, gadgets, and mercantile culture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Goblin canonical | 2 |
| SeniorGoblin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11642127 — 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: Goblin Context triple: [World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, addsPlayableRace, Goblin]
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A.
Goblin
Goblin is the dark, experimental debut studio album by American rapper and producer Tyler, the Creator, known for its abrasive production and confessional, controversial lyrics.
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B.
Grohg
Grohg is an early ballet score by American composer Aaron Copland that explores macabre, expressionist themes and later provided material for his Dance Symphony.
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C.
Griend
Griend is a small, uninhabited Dutch Wadden Sea island known as an important bird sanctuary and nature reserve.
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D.
Gobliiins
Gobliiins is a 1991 comedic puzzle-adventure video game known for its cooperative control of three goblin characters, each with unique abilities, to solve increasingly bizarre and humorous challenges.
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E.
Gurgi
Gurgi is a timid yet loyal, creature-like companion character from Disney’s animated fantasy film "The Black Cauldron."
- 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: Goblin Target entity description: Goblins in World of Warcraft are a cunning, profit-obsessed, and technologically inventive race known for their explosives, gadgets, and mercantile culture.
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A.
Goblin
Goblin is the dark, experimental debut studio album by American rapper and producer Tyler, the Creator, known for its abrasive production and confessional, controversial lyrics.
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B.
Grohg
Grohg is an early ballet score by American composer Aaron Copland that explores macabre, expressionist themes and later provided material for his Dance Symphony.
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C.
Griend
Griend is a small, uninhabited Dutch Wadden Sea island known as an important bird sanctuary and nature reserve.
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D.
Gobliiins
Gobliiins is a 1991 comedic puzzle-adventure video game known for its cooperative control of three goblin characters, each with unique abilities, to solve increasingly bizarre and humorous challenges.
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E.
Gurgi
Gurgi is a timid yet loyal, creature-like companion character from Disney’s animated fantasy film "The Black Cauldron."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Humanoid
ⓘ
Playable race ⓘ Sentient species ⓘ World of Warcraft race ⓘ |
| alliedWith |
Blood elves
ⓘ
linked to:
Blood Elf
Forsaken ⓘ Orcs ⓘ Tauren ⓘ
linked to:
tauren
Trolls ⓘ |
| averageHeight | Short ⓘ |
| bodyType | Small humanoid ⓘ |
| capitalCity |
Bilgewater Harbor
ⓘ
linked to:
Bilgewater Port
|
| culturalFocus |
Commerce
ⓘ
Engineering ⓘ Mercantilism ⓘ |
| designPhilosophy | Function over safety ⓘ |
| earType | Long pointed ears ⓘ |
| economicSystem | Extreme capitalism ⓘ |
| enemyOf | Alliance ⓘ |
| factionAlignment | Horde ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceGame | World of Warcraft ⓘ |
| game | World of Warcraft ⓘ |
| governmentType | Trade cartel ⓘ |
| homeIsland | Kezan ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Explosives
ⓘ
Gadgets ⓘ Mercantile culture ⓘ Risky engineering ⓘ |
| language |
Goblin
ⓘ
Orcish ⓘ |
| motto | Time is money, friend ⓘ |
| notableLeader |
Gazlowe
ⓘ
Trade Prince Gallywix ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
Cunning
ⓘ
Profit-obsessed ⓘ Technologically inventive ⓘ |
| playableSinceExpansion | World of Warcraft: Cataclysm ⓘ |
| primaryFaction | Bilgewater Cartel ⓘ |
| racialAbility |
Best Deals Anywhere
ⓘ
Better Living Through Chemistry ⓘ Pack Hobgoblin ⓘ Rocket Barrage ⓘ Rocket Jump ⓘ Time is Money ⓘ |
| racialMount |
Goblin Trike
ⓘ
Goblin Turbo-Trike ⓘ |
| religion | Varied ⓘ |
| skinColor |
Green
ⓘ
Yellow-green ⓘ |
| startingZone | The Lost Isles ⓘ |
| technologyLevel | Advanced engineering ⓘ |
| universe | Warcraft universe ⓘ |
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: Goblin Description of subject: Goblins in World of Warcraft are a cunning, profit-obsessed, and technologically inventive race known for their explosives, gadgets, and mercantile culture.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.