Gate of Stone
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Gate of Stone is one of the fortified entrances to the hidden Elven city of Gondolin in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gate of Silver | 1 |
| Gate of Stone canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11460889 — 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: Gate of Stone Context triple: [Gondolin, hasGate, Gate of Stone]
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A.
The Obelisk Gate
The Obelisk Gate is the second novel in N. K. Jemisin’s acclaimed Broken Earth trilogy, a science fantasy series set on a geologically unstable world wracked by apocalyptic “Seasons.”
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B.
Woven Stone
Woven Stone is a poetry and prose collection by Acoma Pueblo writer Simon J. Ortiz that explores Native American identity, history, and resistance.
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C.
The Stonemason
The Stonemason is a stage play by American author Cormac McCarthy that explores family conflict, legacy, and moral decay within a multigenerational African American family.
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D.
City of Forty Gates
The "City of Forty Gates" is a poetic epithet for the ancient Egyptian city of Ani (Thebes), evoking its grandeur, numerous monumental entrances, and significance as a major religious and political center.
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E.
Keepers of the Eastern Door
Keepers of the Eastern Door is an honorific title referring to the Mohawk people’s role as the easternmost protectors and guardians within the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
- 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: Gate of Stone Target entity description: Gate of Stone is one of the fortified entrances to the hidden Elven city of Gondolin in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium.
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A.
The Obelisk Gate
The Obelisk Gate is the second novel in N. K. Jemisin’s acclaimed Broken Earth trilogy, a science fantasy series set on a geologically unstable world wracked by apocalyptic “Seasons.”
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B.
Woven Stone
Woven Stone is a poetry and prose collection by Acoma Pueblo writer Simon J. Ortiz that explores Native American identity, history, and resistance.
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C.
The Stonemason
The Stonemason is a stage play by American author Cormac McCarthy that explores family conflict, legacy, and moral decay within a multigenerational African American family.
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D.
City of Forty Gates
The "City of Forty Gates" is a poetic epithet for the ancient Egyptian city of Ani (Thebes), evoking its grandeur, numerous monumental entrances, and significance as a major religious and political center.
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E.
Keepers of the Eastern Door
Keepers of the Eastern Door is an honorific title referring to the Mohawk people’s role as the easternmost protectors and guardians within the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
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gate ⓘ |
| accesses | hidden city of Gondolin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
First Gate
NERFINISHED
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First Gate of Gondolin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInLegendarium |
Gondolin narrative
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Tales of the First Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | Turgon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Fall of Gondolin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToCulture | Noldor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToRealm | Gondolin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. R. R. Tolkien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedInWork |
The Book of Lost Tales
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Silmarillion NERFINISHED ⓘ Unfinished Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Gate of Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function |
defensive structure
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fortified entrance ⓘ |
| guardedBy |
Elves of Gondolin
NERFINISHED
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Gondolindrim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| in-universeTimePeriod | First Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInCity | Gondolin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalUniverse | Middle-earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Tumladen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Orfalch Echor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| partOf |
Gondolin
NERFINISHED
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Seven Gates of Gondolin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Orfalch Echor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| securityRole | first line of defense of Gondolin ⓘ |
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: Gate of Stone Description of subject: Gate of Stone is one of the fortified entrances to the hidden Elven city of Gondolin in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.