Thengel
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Thengel is a King of Rohan from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, known for restoring strength and order to the realm after a period of decline.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thengel canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10215871 — 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: Thengel Context triple: [Théoden, father, Thengel]
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A.
Thortan
Thortan is the historical site in Armenia traditionally regarded as the place where Saint Gregory the Illuminator, the patron saint and first official head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, died.
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B.
Thrym
Thrym is a giant (jötunn) from Norse mythology best known for demanding the goddess Freyja as his bride in exchange for returning Thor’s stolen hammer.
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C.
Loken
Loken is a surname most notably associated with American actress and model Kristanna Loken.
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D.
Mardöll
Mardöll is an epithet of the Norse goddess Freyja, highlighting her radiant, jewel-like beauty and association with love and fertility.
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E.
Thalun
Thalun was a 17th-century Burmese king who restored and consolidated the Toungoo Dynasty’s power after a period of decline.
- 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: Thengel Target entity description: Thengel is a King of Rohan from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, known for restoring strength and order to the realm after a period of decline.
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A.
Thortan
Thortan is the historical site in Armenia traditionally regarded as the place where Saint Gregory the Illuminator, the patron saint and first official head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, died.
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B.
Thrym
Thrym is a giant (jötunn) from Norse mythology best known for demanding the goddess Freyja as his bride in exchange for returning Thor’s stolen hammer.
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C.
Loken
Loken is a surname most notably associated with American actress and model Kristanna Loken.
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D.
Mardöll
Mardöll is an epithet of the Norse goddess Freyja, highlighting her radiant, jewel-like beauty and association with love and fertility.
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E.
Thalun
Thalun was a 17th-century Burmese king who restored and consolidated the Toungoo Dynasty’s power after a period of decline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Rohan
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Man ⓘ Rohirrim ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| allegiance | The Mark of Rohan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Lord of the Rings appendices
NERFINISHED
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Unfinished Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Rohan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Thengel’s unnamed daughters
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Théoden NERFINISHED ⓘ Théodwyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologicalPlacement | late Third Age of Middle-earth ⓘ |
| creator | J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ |
| culture | Rohirrim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | Third Age 2980 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Edoras NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| epithet | Thengel King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Third Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Fengel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Middle-earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| governsFrom | Meduseld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandchild |
Théodred
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Éomer NERFINISHED ⓘ Éowyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| house | House of Eorl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Rohirric
NERFINISHED
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Westron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | unknown ⓘ |
| notableFor |
restoring order to Rohan after a period of decline
ⓘ
restoring strength to Rohan ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Éomer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Éowyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position | Sixteenth King of Rohan ⓘ |
| predecessor | Fengel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| race | Men ⓘ |
| realm | Rohan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | Third Age 2980 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignStart | Third Age 2953 ⓘ |
| residence | Edoras NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | Gondor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Steward of Gondor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Morwen of Lossarnach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Théoden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
King of Rohan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lord of the Mark 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: Thengel Description of subject: Thengel is a King of Rohan from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, known for restoring strength and order to the realm after a period of decline.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.