Minas Tirith of Finrod
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Minas Tirith of Finrod is an Elven watch-tower and fortress on Tol Sirion in Beleriand, originally built by Finrod Felagund to guard the Pass of Sirion in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Minas Tirith of Finrod canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11348139 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Minas Tirith of Finrod Context triple: [Beleriand, containsFortress, Minas Tirith of Finrod]
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Minas Tirith
Minas Tirith is the heavily fortified, tiered capital city of Gondor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, renowned for its white walls and pivotal role in the War of the Ring.
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Minas Ithil
Minas Ithil is a key city and stronghold in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, later captured and corrupted into the dark fortress known as Minas Morgul.
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C.
Osgiliath
Osgiliath is a once-great but war-ravaged capital city of Gondor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, spanning the River Anduin between Minas Tirith and Minas Morgul.
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D.
Pelargir
Pelargir is a prominent port city of Gondor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, situated on the Anduin River and long serving as a key naval and trading hub.
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E.
Henneth Annûn
Henneth Annûn is a secret refuge and hidden waterfall-cave in Ithilien used by Gondorian rangers in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
- 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: Minas Tirith of Finrod Target entity description: Minas Tirith of Finrod is an Elven watch-tower and fortress on Tol Sirion in Beleriand, originally built by Finrod Felagund to guard the Pass of Sirion in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium.
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A.
Minas Tirith
Minas Tirith is the heavily fortified, tiered capital city of Gondor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, renowned for its white walls and pivotal role in the War of the Ring.
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B.
Minas Ithil
Minas Ithil is a key city and stronghold in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, later captured and corrupted into the dark fortress known as Minas Morgul.
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C.
Osgiliath
Osgiliath is a once-great but war-ravaged capital city of Gondor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, spanning the River Anduin between Minas Tirith and Minas Morgul.
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D.
Pelargir
Pelargir is a prominent port city of Gondor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, situated on the Anduin River and long serving as a key naval and trading hub.
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E.
Henneth Annûn
Henneth Annûn is a secret refuge and hidden waterfall-cave in Ithilien used by Gondorian rangers in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Elven fortress
ⓘ
stronghold ⓘ watch-tower ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Minas Tirith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInSection | Quenta Silmarillion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
The History of Middle-earth
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Silmarillion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEnemy |
Morgoth
GENERATED
ⓘ
Sauron GENERATED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople |
Elves
ⓘ
Noldor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithRace | Noldorin Elves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToHouse | House of Finarfin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtBy | Finrod Felagund NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtOnFeature | island in the River Sirion ⓘ |
| capturedBy | Sauron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Elven realms and strongholds
ⓘ
Fortresses of Beleriand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructedBy | Finrod Felagund NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| controls | approaches between West Beleriand and East Beleriand ⓘ |
| defensiveRole | barrier against the forces of Angband moving south ⓘ |
| era | Elder Days ⓘ |
| fictionalLocationIn | legendarium of J. R. R. Tolkien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Arda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedInAge | First Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| guardedRoute | main north–south route along Sirion ⓘ |
| guards | Pass of Sirion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Sindarin ⓘ |
| laterLord | Orodreth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterNameMeaning | Isle of Werewolves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Beleriand
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Middle-earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Tol Sirion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | Tower of Guard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyRegion |
Dorthonion
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
East Beleriand NERFINISHED ⓘ Hithlum NERFINISHED ⓘ West Beleriand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
capture by Sauron in the First Age
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imprisonment of Beren and Finrod in its dungeons after its capture ⓘ |
| originalLord | Finrod Felagund GENERATED ⓘ |
| purpose | to guard the Pass of Sirion ⓘ |
| regionGuarded | northern Beleriand ⓘ |
| relatedStructure | Nargothrond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedToCharacter | Beren son of Barahir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| renamedAs | Tol-in-Gaurhoth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strategicLocation | on the River Sirion ⓘ |
| typeOfFortification | island fortress ⓘ |
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: Minas Tirith of Finrod Description of subject: Minas Tirith of Finrod is an Elven watch-tower and fortress on Tol Sirion in Beleriand, originally built by Finrod Felagund to guard the Pass of Sirion in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium.
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