Lancre
E620058
Lancre is a small, mountainous kingdom in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, best known as the home of the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lancre canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6796057 — 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: Lancre Context triple: [Discworld, mainLocation, Lancre]
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A.
Spleen
"Spleen" is a famous melancholic poem by Charles Baudelaire from his collection *Les Fleurs du mal*, exploring themes of ennui, despair, and existential anguish.
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B.
Clyve
Clyve is a given name, typically a modern or stylistic variant of the name Clive.
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C.
Bilein
Bilein is an alternative name for the Bilen people, an ethnic group primarily inhabiting parts of Eritrea and eastern Sudan.
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D.
Lungs
Lungs is the critically acclaimed debut studio album by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine, noted for its dramatic vocals and lush, baroque pop production.
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E.
Gland
Gland is a Swiss municipality in the canton of Vaud, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva between Geneva and Lausanne.
- 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: Lancre Target entity description: Lancre is a small, mountainous kingdom in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, best known as the home of the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick.
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A.
Spleen
"Spleen" is a famous melancholic poem by Charles Baudelaire from his collection *Les Fleurs du mal*, exploring themes of ennui, despair, and existential anguish.
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B.
Clyve
Clyve is a given name, typically a modern or stylistic variant of the name Clive.
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C.
Bilein
Bilein is an alternative name for the Bilen people, an ethnic group primarily inhabiting parts of Eritrea and eastern Sudan.
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D.
Lungs
Lungs is the critically acclaimed debut studio album by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine, noted for its dramatic vocals and lush, baroque pop production.
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E.
Gland
Gland is a Swiss municipality in the canton of Vaud, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva between Geneva and Lausanne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional kingdom
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location in the Discworld series ⓘ monarchy ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | Discworld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
A Hat Full of Sky
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carpe Jugulum NERFINISHED ⓘ I Shall Wear Midnight NERFINISHED ⓘ Lords and Ladies NERFINISHED ⓘ Maskerade NERFINISHED ⓘ The Shepherd’s Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wee Free Men NERFINISHED ⓘ Wintersmith NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyrd Sisters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderedBy | Überwald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Lancre Town NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Terry Pratchett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalFeature |
rural folk customs
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strong oral tradition ⓘ witch-led informal social order ⓘ |
| geographicalFeature | mountainous ⓘ |
| governmentType | hereditary monarchy ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Lancre Castle
NERFINISHED
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Lancre Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ the Dancers stone circle NERFINISHED ⓘ the Lancre Gorge NERFINISHED ⓘ the Long Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasQueen | Magrat Garlick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasResident |
Agnes Nitt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Granny Weatherwax NERFINISHED ⓘ Hodgesaargh ⓘ King Verence II NERFINISHED ⓘ Magrat Garlick NERFINISHED ⓘ Nac Mac Feegle clan NERFINISHED ⓘ Nanny Ogg NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen Magrat Garlick NERFINISHED ⓘ Shawn Ogg NERFINISHED ⓘ Tiffany Aching NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlement |
Bad Ass
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Lancre Town NERFINISHED ⓘ Slice ⓘ |
| knownFor |
apple orchards
ⓘ
cheese ⓘ dancing the Morris ⓘ sheep farming ⓘ the Lancre Stick and Bucket Dance NERFINISHED ⓘ theatre ⓘ witchcraft ⓘ witches ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Morporkian ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Ramtops NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Discworld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Elven invasion in Lords and Ladies
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royal wedding of Verence II and Magrat Garlick NERFINISHED ⓘ vampire incursion in Carpe Jugulum ⓘ |
| religion | Omnianism (minor presence) ⓘ |
| ruledBy | King Verence II 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: Lancre Description of subject: Lancre is a small, mountainous kingdom in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, best known as the home of the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.