War against the Lich King
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The War against the Lich King was the climactic Northrend campaign in World of Warcraft where the forces of Azeroth united to confront Arthas Menethil and his undead Scourge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| War against the Lich King canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11547866 — 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: War against the Lich King Context triple: [Bolvar Fordragon, participatedIn, War against the Lich King]
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A.
Battle of Mount Gindarus
The Battle of Mount Gindarus was a 38 BC clash in Syria where Roman forces under Publius Ventidius Bassus decisively defeated the Parthians, halting their expansion into Roman territory.
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B.
Opening of the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj
The Opening of the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj was a massive, server-wide World of Warcraft event that unlocked the Ahn'Qiraj raid instances and triggered a large-scale invasion by the Qiraji forces in Silithus.
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C.
Night Elf campaign
The Night Elf campaign is a story-driven single-player chapter in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos that follows the ancient night elf race as they battle demonic and undead threats to protect their homeland.
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D.
Siege of Trenzalore
The Siege of Trenzalore is a pivotal conflict in the Doctor Who universe in which the Eleventh Doctor defends the planet Trenzalore for centuries against numerous enemies to prevent the return of the Time Lords.
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E.
Angmar War
The Angmar War was a pivotal Third Age conflict in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, in which the Witch-king’s realm of Angmar waged a long campaign that ultimately led to the downfall of the northern Dúnedain kingdom of Arnor.
- 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: War against the Lich King Target entity description: The War against the Lich King was the climactic Northrend campaign in World of Warcraft where the forces of Azeroth united to confront Arthas Menethil and his undead Scourge.
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A.
Battle of Mount Gindarus
The Battle of Mount Gindarus was a 38 BC clash in Syria where Roman forces under Publius Ventidius Bassus decisively defeated the Parthians, halting their expansion into Roman territory.
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B.
Opening of the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj
The Opening of the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj was a massive, server-wide World of Warcraft event that unlocked the Ahn'Qiraj raid instances and triggered a large-scale invasion by the Qiraji forces in Silithus.
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C.
Night Elf campaign
The Night Elf campaign is a story-driven single-player chapter in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos that follows the ancient night elf race as they battle demonic and undead threats to protect their homeland.
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D.
Siege of Trenzalore
The Siege of Trenzalore is a pivotal conflict in the Doctor Who universe in which the Eleventh Doctor defends the planet Trenzalore for centuries against numerous enemies to prevent the return of the Time Lords.
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E.
Angmar War
The Angmar War was a pivotal Third Age conflict in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, in which the Witch-king’s realm of Angmar waged a long campaign that ultimately led to the downfall of the northern Dúnedain kingdom of Arnor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Northrend campaign
ⓘ
World of Warcraft event ⓘ fictional war ⓘ |
| appearsInExpansion | Wrath of the Lich King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGame | World of Warcraft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologicallyFollows |
Scourge invasion of Azeroth
ⓘ
Third War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictBetween |
forces of Azeroth
ⓘ
the Scourge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBelligerent |
Alliance
ⓘ
Argent Crusade NERFINISHED ⓘ Cult of the Damned NERFINISHED ⓘ Horde NERFINISHED ⓘ Kirin Tor NERFINISHED ⓘ Knights of the Ebon Blade NERFINISHED ⓘ Scourge NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyrmrest Accord NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCommander |
Darion Mograine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Garrosh Hellscream NERFINISHED ⓘ Highlord Bolvar Fordragon NERFINISHED ⓘ Jaina Proudmoore NERFINISHED ⓘ Sylvanas Windrunner NERFINISHED ⓘ Tirion Fordring NERFINISHED ⓘ Varian Wrynn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEnemyFaction | undead Scourge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFinalBattleLocation | Icecrown Citadel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKeyEvent |
Argent Tournament
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Assault on Icecrown Citadel NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of the Wrathgate NERFINISHED ⓘ Defense of Wyrmrest Temple NERFINISHED ⓘ Fall of the Lich King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLocation | Northrend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOpposingCommander |
Anub'arak
NERFINISHED
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Arthas Menethil NERFINISHED ⓘ Kel'Thuzad NERFINISHED ⓘ Sindragosa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOutcome |
Bolvar Fordragon becomes the new Lich King
NERFINISHED
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defeat of Arthas Menethil ⓘ end of the Lich King's reign ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryAntagonist | Arthas Menethil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheater |
Borean Tundra
NERFINISHED
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Crystalsong Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ Dragonblight NERFINISHED ⓘ Grizzly Hills NERFINISHED ⓘ Howling Fjord NERFINISHED ⓘ Icecrown NERFINISHED ⓘ Storm Peaks NERFINISHED ⓘ Zul'Drak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme | unity of Azeroth's factions against a common threat ⓘ |
| partOf | World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInUniverse | Warcraft universe 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: War against the Lich King Description of subject: The War against the Lich King was the climactic Northrend campaign in World of Warcraft where the forces of Azeroth united to confront Arthas Menethil and his undead Scourge.
Referenced by (1)
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