Herugrim
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Herugrim is the ancient, heirloom sword of King Théoden of Rohan in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Herugrim canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10215891 — 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: Herugrim Context triple: [Théoden, weapon, Herugrim]
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A.
Baranduin
Baranduin is a major river in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth that forms the eastern boundary of the Shire and flows southward to the sea.
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B.
Thrór
Thrór is a Dwarven king from J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, remembered as the last King under the Mountain before Smaug seized Erebor.
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C.
Thrúd
Thrúd is a goddess in Norse mythology, known as the daughter of Thor and Sif and associated with strength.
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D.
Dernhelm
Dernhelm is the male alias adopted by Éowyn of Rohan when she disguises herself as a rider to secretly join the Rohirrim in battle in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."
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E.
Thráin II
Thráin II is a Dwarf of Durin's line in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, known as the exiled King of Durin's Folk who lost the last of the Seven Rings of the Dwarves to Sauron.
- 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: Herugrim Target entity description: Herugrim is the ancient, heirloom sword of King Théoden of Rohan in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
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A.
Baranduin
Baranduin is a major river in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth that forms the eastern boundary of the Shire and flows southward to the sea.
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B.
Thrór
Thrór is a Dwarven king from J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, remembered as the last King under the Mountain before Smaug seized Erebor.
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C.
Thrúd
Thrúd is a goddess in Norse mythology, known as the daughter of Thor and Sif and associated with strength.
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D.
Dernhelm
Dernhelm is the male alias adopted by Éowyn of Rohan when she disguises herself as a rider to secretly join the Rohirrim in battle in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."
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E.
Thráin II
Thráin II is a Dwarf of Durin's line in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, known as the exiled King of Durin's Folk who lost the last of the Seven Rings of the Dwarves to Sauron.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Rohirric artifact
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fictional sword ⓘ heirloom ⓘ weapon ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Lord of the Rings
NERFINISHED
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The Return of the King NERFINISHED ⓘ The Two Towers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInAdaptation | The Lord of the Rings film trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Rohan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
the Rohirrim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Gandalf
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gríma Wormtongue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsTo | House of Eorl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. R. R. Tolkien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Rohan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs |
ancient
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heirloom sword ⓘ |
| genre | high fantasy ⓘ |
| keptIn | Meduseld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Rohirric NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Edoras NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material | steel (implied) ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Théoden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | legendarium of Middle-earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| restoredTo | Théoden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
kingship of Rohan
NERFINISHED
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royal authority of the King of Rohan ⓘ |
| type | sword ⓘ |
| universe | Middle-earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy | Théoden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInBattle |
Battle of the Hornburg
NERFINISHED
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Battle of the Pelennor Fields NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wieldedBy | Théoden 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: Herugrim Description of subject: Herugrim is the ancient, heirloom sword of King Théoden of Rohan in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.