Cirith Ungol
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Cirith Ungol is a perilous mountain pass and fortress in Mordor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, infamous for its association with Shelob and the final leg of Frodo and Sam’s journey into Sauron’s realm.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cirith Ungol canonical | 6 |
| Shelob’s Lair | 2 |
| Cirith Gorgor | 1 |
| Cirith Ungol and Shelob’s Lair | 1 |
| Ephel Dúath | 1 |
| Morgul Pass | 1 |
| Morgul-road | 1 |
| The Great Spider of Cirith Ungol | 1 |
| tower of Cirith Ungol | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2369516 — 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: Cirith Ungol Context triple: [Gollum, guidesTo, Cirith Ungol]
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A.
Minas Morgul
Minas Morgul is a sinister, corrupted fortress-city in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, serving as a stronghold of the Nazgûl in The Lord of the Rings.
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B.
Mount Doom
Mount Doom is the fiery volcanic mountain in Mordor where the One Ring was forged and ultimately destroyed in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
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C.
Thorongil
Thorongil is the alias used by Aragorn during his early years of service as a mysterious and valiant captain in the armies of Gondor and Rohan in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium.
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D.
The Balrog of Moria
The Balrog of Moria is a powerful ancient demon of shadow and flame from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, dwelling deep beneath the dwarven mines of Moria.
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E.
Mordor
Mordor is the dark, volcanic realm in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth that serves as Sauron's stronghold and the primary source of evil in The Lord of the Rings.
- 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: Cirith Ungol Target entity description: Cirith Ungol is a perilous mountain pass and fortress in Mordor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, infamous for its association with Shelob and the final leg of Frodo and Sam’s journey into Sauron’s realm.
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A.
Minas Morgul
Minas Morgul is a sinister, corrupted fortress-city in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, serving as a stronghold of the Nazgûl in The Lord of the Rings.
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B.
Mount Doom
Mount Doom is the fiery volcanic mountain in Mordor where the One Ring was forged and ultimately destroyed in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
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C.
Thorongil
Thorongil is the alias used by Aragorn during his early years of service as a mysterious and valiant captain in the armies of Gondor and Rohan in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium.
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D.
The Balrog of Moria
The Balrog of Moria is a powerful ancient demon of shadow and flame from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, dwelling deep beneath the dwarven mines of Moria.
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E.
Mordor
Mordor is the dark, volcanic realm in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth that serves as Sauron's stronghold and the primary source of evil in The Lord of the Rings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
fortress ⓘ mountain pass ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Lord of the Rings
ⓘ
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ⓘ
surface form:
The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ⓘ
surface form:
The Two Towers
|
| associatedWith |
Frodo Baggins
ⓘ
Samwise Gamgee ⓘ Shelob ⓘ The One Ring ⓘ |
| category |
Black Gate of Mordor
ⓘ
surface form:
Fortresses of Mordor
Locations in The Lord of the Rings ⓘ Mountain passes in Middle-earth ⓘ |
| controlledBy | Sauron ⓘ |
| creator | J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ |
| function |
border fortress of Mordor
ⓘ
entrance to Mordor ⓘ |
| guardedBy |
Goblins
ⓘ
surface form:
Gorbag
Shagrat ⓘ orcs ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Cirith Ungol
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Shelob’s Lair
Cirith Ungol self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
tower of Cirith Ungol
winding stair ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Sindarin ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Mordor ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalUniverse | Middle-earth ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Minas Morgul ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | Pass of the Spider ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Samwise Gamgee’s rescue of Frodo
ⓘ
capture of Frodo Baggins ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ephel Dúath
ⓘ
surface form:
the Ephel Dúath
|
| terrainFeature |
narrow path
ⓘ
steep cliffs ⓘ tunnels ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Third Age ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Frodo Baggins
ⓘ
Gollum ⓘ Samwise Gamgee ⓘ |
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: Cirith Ungol Description of subject: Cirith Ungol is a perilous mountain pass and fortress in Mordor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, infamous for its association with Shelob and the final leg of Frodo and Sam’s journey into Sauron’s realm.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ephel Dúath
this entity surface form:
Morgul Pass
this entity surface form:
Morgul-road
this entity surface form:
Cirith Ungol and Shelob’s Lair
this entity surface form:
Shelob’s Lair
this entity surface form:
tower of Cirith Ungol
this entity surface form:
Shelob’s Lair