Fingolfin
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Fingolfin is a High King of the Noldor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, renowned for his valor and his fateful single combat with the Dark Lord Morgoth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fingolfin canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10398087 — 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: Fingolfin Context triple: [Eldarion, ancestor, Fingolfin]
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A.
Elladan
Elladan is one of Elrond's twin sons in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, known as a noble Elf of Rivendell who often rides to war alongside his brother Elrohir.
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B.
Aldarion
Aldarion is a Númenórean mariner and heir to the throne, renowned for his seafaring voyages and central role in the tale "Aldarion and Erendis" in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium.
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C.
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.
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D.
Elros
Elros is a character from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, a Half-elven leader who chose mortality and became the first King of Númenor.
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E.
Finrod Felagund
Finrod Felagund is an Elven king and master of wisdom and friendship from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, renowned for founding Nargothrond and for his noble sacrifice in aiding Beren.
- 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: Fingolfin Target entity description: Fingolfin is a High King of the Noldor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, renowned for his valor and his fateful single combat with the Dark Lord Morgoth.
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A.
Elladan
Elladan is one of Elrond's twin sons in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, known as a noble Elf of Rivendell who often rides to war alongside his brother Elrohir.
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B.
Aldarion
Aldarion is a Númenórean mariner and heir to the throne, renowned for his seafaring voyages and central role in the tale "Aldarion and Erendis" in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium.
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C.
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.
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D.
Elros
Elros is a character from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, a Half-elven leader who chose mortality and became the first King of Númenor.
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E.
Finrod Felagund
Finrod Felagund is an Elven king and master of wisdom and friendship from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, renowned for founding Nargothrond and for his noble sacrifice in aiding Beren.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Elf
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Fictional character ⓘ High King of the Noldor ⓘ Noldo ⓘ |
| age | First Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| allegiance |
House of Finwë
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Noldor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The History of Middle-earth
NERFINISHED
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The Lost Road and Other Writings NERFINISHED ⓘ The Shaping of Middle-earth NERFINISHED ⓘ The Silmarillion ⓘ |
| child |
Aredhel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Argon NERFINISHED ⓘ Fingon NERFINISHED ⓘ Turgon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ |
| crossed | Helcaraxë NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Eldar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathCause | Slain in single combat with Morgoth ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Angband NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemy | Morgoth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| event |
Crossing of the Helcaraxë
NERFINISHED
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Duel with Morgoth before the gates of Angband ⓘ |
| father | Finwë NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | Male ⓘ |
| halfBrother |
Finarfin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fëanor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| house | House of Fingolfin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedBy | Morgoth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kinship |
Grandfather of Gil-galad (in some traditions)
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Uncle of Galadriel ⓘ |
| language | Quenya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| led |
Host of Fingolfin
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Noldor who returned to Middle-earth ⓘ |
| mother | Indis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Single combat with Morgoth
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Valor in battle ⓘ |
| oathContext | Followed Fëanor to Middle-earth ⓘ |
| predecessor | Fëanor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| race | Noldor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| realm | Hithlum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Hithlum
NERFINISHED
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Tirion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Anairë NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeeded | Fëanor as High King of the Noldor ⓘ |
| successor | Fingon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
High King of the Noldor
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King of the Noldor in Beleriand ⓘ |
| weapon | Ringil 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: Fingolfin Description of subject: Fingolfin is a High King of the Noldor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, renowned for his valor and his fateful single combat with the Dark Lord Morgoth.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.