Isildur
E708663
Character in The Lord of the Rings
Dúnadan
Fictional character
King of Arnor
King of Gondor
Númenórean
Isildur is a legendary Númenórean prince and later King of Gondor and Arnor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, best known for cutting the One Ring from Sauron’s hand and ultimately failing to destroy it.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Isildur canonical | 21 |
| Anárion | 1 |
| Death of Isildur | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7800303 — 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: Isildur Context triple: [Unfinished Tales, notableCharacter, Isildur]
-
A.
Húrin Thalion
Húrin Thalion is a legendary Man of the House of Hador in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, renowned for his valor in the First Age and his tragic defiance of Morgoth.
-
B.
Aragorn
Aragorn is a central heroic figure in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, a ranger and rightful king who plays a crucial role in the defeat of Sauron.
-
C.
Éomer
Éomer is a valiant warrior of Rohan who becomes its king and plays a crucial role in the War of the Ring in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
-
D.
Eldarion
Eldarion is the son and heir of Aragorn and Arwen in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, destined to succeed Aragorn as King of Gondor.
-
E.
Faramir
Faramir is a noble and introspective Gondorian captain from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, known for his wisdom, mercy, and resistance to the corrupting power of the One Ring.
- 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: Isildur Target entity description: Isildur is a legendary Númenórean prince and later King of Gondor and Arnor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, best known for cutting the One Ring from Sauron’s hand and ultimately failing to destroy it.
-
A.
Húrin Thalion
Húrin Thalion is a legendary Man of the House of Hador in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, renowned for his valor in the First Age and his tragic defiance of Morgoth.
-
B.
Aragorn
Aragorn is a central heroic figure in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, a ranger and rightful king who plays a crucial role in the defeat of Sauron.
-
C.
Éomer
Éomer is a valiant warrior of Rohan who becomes its king and plays a crucial role in the War of the Ring in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
-
D.
Eldarion
Eldarion is the son and heir of Aragorn and Arwen in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, destined to succeed Aragorn as King of Gondor.
-
E.
Faramir
Faramir is a noble and introspective Gondorian captain from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, known for his wisdom, mercy, and resistance to the corrupting power of the One Ring.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Character in The Lord of the Rings
ⓘ
Dúnadan ⓘ Fictional character ⓘ King of Arnor ⓘ King of Gondor ⓘ Númenórean ⓘ |
| ancestor | Elros Tar-Minyatur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Lord of the Rings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Silmarillion NERFINISHED ⓘ Unfinished Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Last Alliance of Elves and Men
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
White Tree of Gondor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battleParticipatedIn |
Disaster of the Gladden Fields
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Siege of Barad-dûr NERFINISHED ⓘ War of the Last Alliance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brother | Anárion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broughtTo | Seedling of Nimloth to Middle-earth ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | Slain by Orcs ⓘ |
| child |
Aratan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ciryon NERFINISHED ⓘ Elendur NERFINISHED ⓘ Valandil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coRuledWith | Anárion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ |
| culture | Dúnedain ⓘ |
| descendant | Aragorn II Elessar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| failedTo | Destroy the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom ⓘ |
| father | Elendil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| house | House of Elendil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Adûnaic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sindarin NERFINISHED ⓘ Westron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lineage | Line of Elros NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Amandil’s unnamed daughter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Númenórean ⓘ |
| notableAct | Rescued a fruit of the White Tree Nimloth from Númenor ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Cut the One Ring from Sauron’s hand ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Gladden Fields NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| planted | White Tree of Gondor in Minas Anor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| race | Men ⓘ |
| realmFounded | Gondor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| realmRuled |
Arnor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gondor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Aragorn II Elessar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ringPossessed | The One Ring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Unnamed wife ⓘ |
| successor | Valandil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Second Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
High King of Gondor and Arnor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
King of Arnor ⓘ King of Gondor NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince of Númenor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weaponUsed | Narsil 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: Isildur Description of subject: Isildur is a legendary Númenórean prince and later King of Gondor and Arnor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, best known for cutting the One Ring from Sauron’s hand and ultimately failing to destroy it.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Anárion
subject surface form:
Narsil
subject surface form:
Narsil
subject surface form:
Men (Middle-earth)
this entity surface form:
Death of Isildur