the Vale
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The Vale is a mountainous and strategically important region in the fictional continent of Westeros, known as the seat of House Arryn in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series and its TV adaptation Game of Thrones.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Vale | 2 |
| The Vale of Arryn (via Gulltown) | 1 |
| the Vale canonical | 1 |
| the coast of the Vale of Arryn | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12958411 — 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: the Vale Context triple: [Iron Throne, governedTerritoryInFiction, the Vale]
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A.
Sharrow Vale
Sharrow Vale is a vibrant residential and shopping district in Sheffield, England, known for its independent shops, cafes, and proximity to the Porter Brook.
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B.
Whitevale
Whitevale is a small historic rural community and neighbourhood within the City of Pickering in Ontario, Canada.
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C.
Weaver Vale
Weaver Vale is a UK parliamentary constituency in Cheshire that elects a Member of Parliament to the House of Commons.
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D.
Norrice
Norrice is a given name or surname that functions as a variant form of the name Norris.
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E.
Shenstone
Shenstone is a village in Staffordshire, England, served by a railway station on the Cross-City Line between Birmingham and Lichfield.
- 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: the Vale Target entity description: The Vale is a mountainous and strategically important region in the fictional continent of Westeros, known as the seat of House Arryn in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series and its TV adaptation Game of Thrones.
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A.
Sharrow Vale
Sharrow Vale is a vibrant residential and shopping district in Sheffield, England, known for its independent shops, cafes, and proximity to the Porter Brook.
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B.
Whitevale
Whitevale is a small historic rural community and neighbourhood within the City of Pickering in Ontario, Canada.
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C.
Weaver Vale
Weaver Vale is a UK parliamentary constituency in Cheshire that elects a Member of Parliament to the House of Commons.
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D.
Norrice
Norrice is a given name or surname that functions as a variant form of the name Norris.
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E.
Shenstone
Shenstone is a village in Staffordshire, England, served by a railway station on the Cross-City Line between Birmingham and Lichfield.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional region
ⓘ
region of Westeros ⓘ |
| allegiance | Iron Throne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | the Vale of Arryn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borders | the Mountains of the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | the Eyrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Coldwater Burn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heart’s Home NERFINISHED ⓘ Ironoaks NERFINISHED ⓘ Littlesister NERFINISHED ⓘ Longbow Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Longsister NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Anchor NERFINISHED ⓘ Runestone ⓘ Snakewood NERFINISHED ⓘ Strongsong NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweetsister ⓘ Wickenden NERFINISHED ⓘ the Bloody Gate NERFINISHED ⓘ the Fingers NERFINISHED ⓘ the Gates of the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ the Redfort NERFINISHED ⓘ the Three Sisters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Westeros NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
A Song of Ice and Fire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Game of Thrones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicalFeature | mountainous region ⓘ |
| governedFrom | the Eyrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoastOn | the Narrow Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPortCity | Gulltown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStronghold | the Eyrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalAllegiance | Kingdom of Mountain and Vale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
fertile valleys
ⓘ
impregnable defenses ⓘ knightly culture ⓘ narrow mountain passes ⓘ |
| locatedIn | eastern Westeros NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorHouse | House Arryn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFortification |
the Bloody Gate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
the Eyrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overlordHouse | House Arryn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protectedBy | the Mountains of the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOf | the Seven Kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Faith of the Seven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ruledBy | House Arryn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seatOf | House Arryn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | high ⓘ |
| vassalHouse |
House Belmore
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
House Coldwater NERFINISHED ⓘ House Corbray NERFINISHED ⓘ House Grafton NERFINISHED ⓘ House Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ House Lynderly NERFINISHED ⓘ House Redfort NERFINISHED ⓘ House Royce NERFINISHED ⓘ House Sunderland NERFINISHED ⓘ House Waynwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: the Vale Description of subject: The Vale is a mountainous and strategically important region in the fictional continent of Westeros, known as the seat of House Arryn in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series and its TV adaptation Game of Thrones.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Vale of Arryn (via Gulltown)
this entity surface form:
The Vale
this entity surface form:
The Vale