Hollin Gate
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Hollin Gate is the western entrance to the Mines of Moria in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, notable for its elven-inscribed doors that open to a spoken password.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hollin Gate canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11144730 — 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: Hollin Gate Context triple: [Moria, contains, Hollin Gate]
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A.
Storey’s Gate
Storey’s Gate is a historic street in central London, situated near Westminster’s government and parliamentary buildings.
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B.
Hatfield Gate
Hatfield Gate is a primary security entrance and access control point for the U.S. Army installation at Fort Myer in Virginia.
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C.
Nevile's Gate
Nevile's Gate is a historic architectural gateway at Trinity College, Cambridge, forming a prominent entrance between the Great Court and the college’s other courts.
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D.
Oakengates
Oakengates is a small town in Shropshire, England, now effectively part of the Telford urban area.
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E.
Ingatestone
Ingatestone is a historic village and civil parish in southeast England known for its traditional architecture and commuter links to London.
- 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: Hollin Gate Target entity description: Hollin Gate is the western entrance to the Mines of Moria in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, notable for its elven-inscribed doors that open to a spoken password.
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A.
Storey’s Gate
Storey’s Gate is a historic street in central London, situated near Westminster’s government and parliamentary buildings.
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B.
Hatfield Gate
Hatfield Gate is a primary security entrance and access control point for the U.S. Army installation at Fort Myer in Virginia.
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C.
Nevile's Gate
Nevile's Gate is a historic architectural gateway at Trinity College, Cambridge, forming a prominent entrance between the Great Court and the college’s other courts.
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D.
Oakengates
Oakengates is a small town in Shropshire, England, now effectively part of the Telford urban area.
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E.
Ingatestone
Ingatestone is a historic village and civil parish in southeast England known for its traditional architecture and commuter links to London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrance
ⓘ
fictional location ⓘ gate ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | lake before the West-gate ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Doors of Durin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elven Door NERFINISHED ⓘ West-door of Moria NERFINISHED ⓘ West-gate of Moria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInBook | The Fellowship of the Ring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | The Lord of the Rings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Celebrimbor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Durin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtBy |
Dwarves of Khazad-dûm
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elves of Eregion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ |
| faces | west ⓘ |
| genre | high fantasy ⓘ |
| guardedBy | Watcher in the Water NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
emblems of Durin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
star of the House of Fëanor NERFINISHED ⓘ two trees carved on the doors ⓘ |
| hasInscriptionLanguage | Elvish ⓘ |
| hasInscriptionScript | ithildin ⓘ |
| hasWriting | Elvish inscription inviting friends to speak the password ⓘ |
| locatedAt | western side of the Misty Mountains ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalUniverse | Middle-earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | stone ⓘ |
| near |
Eregion
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hollin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openedBy | spoken password ⓘ |
| opensInto | Moria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Khazad-dûm
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mines of Moria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passwordInStory | mellon ⓘ |
| passwordLanguage | Sindarin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passwordMeaning | friend ⓘ |
| sceneInvolves |
Aragorn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Boromir NERFINISHED ⓘ Frodo Baggins NERFINISHED ⓘ Gandalf NERFINISHED ⓘ Gimli NERFINISHED ⓘ Legolas NERFINISHED ⓘ Meriadoc Brandybuck NERFINISHED ⓘ Peregrin Took NERFINISHED ⓘ Samwise Gamgee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | Third Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy | Fellowship of the Ring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visibleBy |
moonlight
ⓘ
starlight ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Hollin Gate Description of subject: Hollin Gate is the western entrance to the Mines of Moria in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, notable for its elven-inscribed doors that open to a spoken password.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.