Maester Luwin
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Maester Luwin is the learned healer, counselor, and messenger of House Stark in Winterfell in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maester Luwin canonical | 2 |
| Maester Luwin in Game of Thrones | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12958576 — 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: Maester Luwin Context triple: [Winterfell, notableResident, Maester Luwin]
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A.
Qyburn
Qyburn is a disgraced former maester and sinister healer in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, known for his unethical experiments and service to House Lannister.
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B.
Selwyn Tarth
Selwyn Tarth is a noble lord from the island of Tarth in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, best known as the father of the warrior Brienne of Tarth.
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C.
Jaqen H'ghar
Jaqen H'ghar is a mysterious Faceless Man assassin from the Free City of Braavos who plays a key role in Arya Stark’s storyline in George R. R. Martin’s fantasy series.
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D.
Barristan Selmy
Barristan Selmy is a legendary knight of the Kingsguard in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, renowned for his honor, skill at arms, and long service to multiple kings.
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E.
Ed Daein
Ed Daein is a major city in western Sudan that serves as an important regional center for trade and administration.
- 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: Maester Luwin Target entity description: Maester Luwin is the learned healer, counselor, and messenger of House Stark in Winterfell in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series.
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A.
Qyburn
Qyburn is a disgraced former maester and sinister healer in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, known for his unethical experiments and service to House Lannister.
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B.
Selwyn Tarth
Selwyn Tarth is a noble lord from the island of Tarth in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, best known as the father of the warrior Brienne of Tarth.
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C.
Jaqen H'ghar
Jaqen H'ghar is a mysterious Faceless Man assassin from the Free City of Braavos who plays a key role in Arya Stark’s storyline in George R. R. Martin’s fantasy series.
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D.
Barristan Selmy
Barristan Selmy is a legendary knight of the Kingsguard in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, renowned for his honor, skill at arms, and long service to multiple kings.
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E.
Ed Daein
Ed Daein is a major city in western Sudan that serves as an important regional center for trade and administration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
counselor
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ healer ⓘ maester ⓘ messenger ⓘ |
| advises |
Bran Stark
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Catelyn Stark NERFINISHED ⓘ Eddard Stark NERFINISHED ⓘ Rickon Stark NERFINISHED ⓘ Robb Stark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| allegiance | Citadel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
A Clash of Kings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
A Game of Thrones NERFINISHED ⓘ A Song of Ice and Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ A Storm of Swords NERFINISHED ⓘ Game of Thrones (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | sack of Winterfell by Theon Greyjoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation | the godswood of Winterfell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| caresFor |
Bran Stark
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rickon Stark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | George R. R. Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diesIn | A Clash of Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education | trained at the Citadel ⓘ |
| killedBy | ironborn soldiers ⓘ |
| lastActs | urges Bran and Rickon Stark to flee Winterfell ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
House Stark
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
the children of Eddard Stark ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | mortally wounded during the sack of Winterfell ⓘ |
| mediumOfCommunication | ravens ⓘ |
| notableFor |
devotion to his duties at Winterfell
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kindness toward Bran Stark ⓘ practical skepticism about magic ⓘ |
| occupation | maester of Winterfell ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
compassionate
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patient ⓘ rational ⓘ |
| role |
advisor to Catelyn Stark
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advisor to Eddard Stark ⓘ advisor to Robb Stark ⓘ castle healer ⓘ ravenmaster ⓘ tutor to the Stark children ⓘ |
| servesAt | Winterfell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesHouse | House Stark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
administration
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healing ⓘ ravencraft ⓘ |
| treatsInjuriesOf | Bran Stark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wears | maester’s chain ⓘ |
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: Maester Luwin Description of subject: Maester Luwin is the learned healer, counselor, and messenger of House Stark in Winterfell in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Maester Luwin in Game of Thrones