Warcraft universe
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The Warcraft universe is a high-fantasy setting created by Blizzard Entertainment, encompassing the worlds, races, and stories featured in the Warcraft games, novels, and the World of Warcraft MMO.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Warcraft universe canonical | 24 |
| Warcraft | 20 |
| Warcraft franchise | 5 |
| Warcraft novels | 4 |
| Warcraft comics | 2 |
| Warcraft series | 1 |
| Warcraft video game series | 1 |
| video game franchise Warcraft | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11541772 — 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)
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Target entity: Warcraft universe Context triple: [Azeroth, universe, Warcraft universe]
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Warcraft
Warcraft is a 2016 fantasy action film adaptation of Blizzard Entertainment’s popular video game series, depicting the initial conflict between humans and orcs in the world of Azeroth.
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Warcraft: Orcs & Humans
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a 1994 real-time strategy video game that launched the Warcraft franchise and helped popularize the RTS genre on PC.
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World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in the fantasy world of Azeroth, renowned for its expansive lore, cooperative gameplay, and long-standing cultural impact on online gaming.
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Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition
Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition is an updated release of the classic real-time strategy game Warcraft II that adds native Battle.net online multiplayer support and compatibility with more modern systems.
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Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal
Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal is an expansion pack to the real-time strategy game Warcraft II that continues the Orcs vs. Humans storyline with new campaigns, units, and maps set in the world of Draenor.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Warcraft universe Target entity description: The Warcraft universe is a high-fantasy setting created by Blizzard Entertainment, encompassing the worlds, races, and stories featured in the Warcraft games, novels, and the World of Warcraft MMO.
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A.
Warcraft
Warcraft is a 2016 fantasy action film adaptation of Blizzard Entertainment’s popular video game series, depicting the initial conflict between humans and orcs in the world of Azeroth.
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B.
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a 1994 real-time strategy video game that launched the Warcraft franchise and helped popularize the RTS genre on PC.
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C.
World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in the fantasy world of Azeroth, renowned for its expansive lore, cooperative gameplay, and long-standing cultural impact on online gaming.
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D.
Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition
Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition is an updated release of the classic real-time strategy game Warcraft II that adds native Battle.net online multiplayer support and compatibility with more modern systems.
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E.
Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal
Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal is an expansion pack to the real-time strategy game Warcraft II that continues the Orcs vs. Humans storyline with new campaigns, units, and maps set in the world of Draenor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (79)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional universe
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high fantasy setting ⓘ |
| centralConflict | Alliance–Horde war NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
conflict between order and chaos
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struggle against demonic corruption ⓘ |
| creator | Blizzard Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Warcraft: Orcs & Humans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | fantasy ⓘ |
| includesFaction |
Alliance
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Horde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesOrganization |
Burning Legion
NERFINISHED
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Dragon Aspects NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Gods NERFINISHED ⓘ Scourge NERFINISHED ⓘ Titans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesRace |
Blood Elves
NERFINISHED
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Dracthyr NERFINISHED ⓘ Draenei NERFINISHED ⓘ Dwarves NERFINISHED ⓘ Gnomes NERFINISHED ⓘ Goblins NERFINISHED ⓘ Highmountain Tauren NERFINISHED ⓘ Humans NERFINISHED ⓘ Kul Tiran Humans NERFINISHED ⓘ Lightforged Draenei NERFINISHED ⓘ Mag'har Orcs NERFINISHED ⓘ Mechagnomes NERFINISHED ⓘ Night Elves NERFINISHED ⓘ Nightborne NERFINISHED ⓘ Orcs NERFINISHED ⓘ Pandaren NERFINISHED ⓘ Tauren NERFINISHED ⓘ Trolls NERFINISHED ⓘ Undead ⓘ Void Elves NERFINISHED ⓘ Vulpera NERFINISHED ⓘ Worgen NERFINISHED ⓘ Zandalari Trolls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesWork |
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
NERFINISHED
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Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos NERFINISHED ⓘ Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne NERFINISHED ⓘ Warcraft comics NERFINISHED ⓘ Warcraft film NERFINISHED ⓘ Warcraft novels NERFINISHED ⓘ Warcraft: Orcs & Humans NERFINISHED ⓘ World of Warcraft NERFINISHED ⓘ World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth NERFINISHED ⓘ World of Warcraft: Cataclysm NERFINISHED ⓘ World of Warcraft: Dragonflight NERFINISHED ⓘ World of Warcraft: Legion NERFINISHED ⓘ World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria NERFINISHED ⓘ World of Warcraft: Shadowlands NERFINISHED ⓘ World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade NERFINISHED ⓘ World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor NERFINISHED ⓘ World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesWorld |
Argus
NERFINISHED
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Broken Isles NERFINISHED ⓘ Draenor NERFINISHED ⓘ Kul Tiras NERFINISHED ⓘ Northrend NERFINISHED ⓘ Outland NERFINISHED ⓘ Pandaria NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadowlands NERFINISHED ⓘ Zandalar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| magicSystem |
arcane magic
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elemental magic ⓘ fel magic ⓘ holy magic ⓘ nature magic ⓘ shadow magic ⓘ |
| medium |
comics
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feature film ⓘ massively multiplayer online role-playing game ⓘ novels ⓘ video games ⓘ |
| partOf | Warcraft franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryWorld | Azeroth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Blizzard Entertainment ⓘ |
| subgenre | sword and sorcery ⓘ |
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: Warcraft universe Description of subject: The Warcraft universe is a high-fantasy setting created by Blizzard Entertainment, encompassing the worlds, races, and stories featured in the Warcraft games, novels, and the World of Warcraft MMO.
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