Baron Mordo
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Baron Mordo is a powerful Marvel Comics sorcerer, often depicted as both mentor and rival to Doctor Strange, whose mastery of the mystic arts and shifting loyalties make him a complex and formidable figure.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Baron Mordo canonical | 7 |
| Karl Mordo | 5 |
| Count Mordo (ancestor) | 1 |
| Karl Amadeus Mordo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1963972 — 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: Baron Mordo Context triple: [Doctor Stephen Strange, ally, Baron Mordo]
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A.
Doctor Doom
Doctor Doom is a brilliant but tyrannical supervillain and arch-enemy of the Fantastic Four in Marvel Comics, known for his mastery of both advanced technology and sorcery.
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B.
Doctor Stephen Strange
Doctor Stephen Strange is a Marvel Comics sorcerer and former neurosurgeon who becomes the Sorcerer Supreme, defending Earth from mystical and interdimensional threats.
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C.
Pietro Maximoff
Pietro Maximoff, also known as Quicksilver, is a Marvel Comics superhero famed for his incredible superhuman speed and impulsive, protective nature, particularly toward his twin sister Wanda.
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D.
Red Skull
Red Skull is a notorious Nazi supervillain and archenemy of Captain America in Marvel Comics, known for his red, skull-like face and ruthless pursuit of power.
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E.
Scarlet Witch
Scarlet Witch is a powerful Marvel Comics superhero and Avenger, known for her reality-warping chaos magic and complex moral journey.
- 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: Baron Mordo Target entity description: Baron Mordo is a powerful Marvel Comics sorcerer, often depicted as both mentor and rival to Doctor Strange, whose mastery of the mystic arts and shifting loyalties make him a complex and formidable figure.
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A.
Doctor Doom
Doctor Doom is a brilliant but tyrannical supervillain and arch-enemy of the Fantastic Four in Marvel Comics, known for his mastery of both advanced technology and sorcery.
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B.
Doctor Stephen Strange
Doctor Stephen Strange is a Marvel Comics sorcerer and former neurosurgeon who becomes the Sorcerer Supreme, defending Earth from mystical and interdimensional threats.
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C.
Pietro Maximoff
Pietro Maximoff, also known as Quicksilver, is a Marvel Comics superhero famed for his incredible superhuman speed and impulsive, protective nature, particularly toward his twin sister Wanda.
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D.
Red Skull
Red Skull is a notorious Nazi supervillain and archenemy of Captain America in Marvel Comics, known for his red, skull-like face and ruthless pursuit of power.
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E.
Scarlet Witch
Scarlet Witch is a powerful Marvel Comics superhero and Avenger, known for her reality-warping chaos magic and complex moral journey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Doctor Strange character
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Marvel Comics character ⓘ fictional sorcerer ⓘ supervillain ⓘ |
| abilities |
astral projection
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dimensional travel ⓘ energy projection ⓘ illusion casting ⓘ mastery of the mystic arts ⓘ mind control (limited) ⓘ mystic artifact usage ⓘ spellcasting ⓘ teleportation ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Ancient One
ⓘ
Doctor Stephen Strange ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Strange (former ally)
Dormammu ⓘ Lords of the Netherworld (various demonic entities) ⓘ |
| allyOf | Dormammu ⓘ |
| baseOfOperations |
Transylvania
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various mystical dimensions ⓘ |
| comicGenre |
superhero
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supernatural ⓘ |
| creators |
Stan Lee
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Steve Ditko ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Ancient One
ⓘ
Doctor Strange ⓘ |
| familyName | Mordo ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Strange Tales #111 ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| fullName |
Baron Mordo
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Karl Amadeus Mordo
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| givenName | Karl ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
Baron Mordo
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Karl Mordo
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| hasRelative |
Baron Mordo
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Count Mordo (ancestor)
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| motivation |
jealousy of Doctor Strange
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lust for power ⓘ |
| nationality | Transylvanian ⓘ |
| notableStoryline |
multiple alliances with Dormammu against Doctor Strange
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repeated attempts to overthrow the Ancient One ⓘ |
| occupation |
disciple of the Ancient One
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sorcerer ⓘ supervillain ⓘ |
| publisher | Marvel Comics ⓘ |
| rivalOf | Doctor Strange ⓘ |
| teamUps |
Doctor Strange
ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Strange (occasional)
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| title | Baron ⓘ |
| trainedBy | Ancient One ⓘ |
| universe | Marvel 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: Baron Mordo Description of subject: Baron Mordo is a powerful Marvel Comics sorcerer, often depicted as both mentor and rival to Doctor Strange, whose mastery of the mystic arts and shifting loyalties make him a complex and formidable figure.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Karl Mordo
this entity surface form:
Karl Mordo
this entity surface form:
Karl Amadeus Mordo
this entity surface form:
Karl Mordo
this entity surface form:
Count Mordo (ancestor)
this entity surface form:
Karl Mordo
this entity surface form:
Karl Mordo