The Spire
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The Spire is the towering upper section of Icecrown Citadel in World of Warcraft, serving as the final approach to the Lich King’s throne and the climactic raid encounters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Spire canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11542296 — 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: The Spire Context triple: [Icecrown Citadel, containsLocation, The Spire]
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A.
The Spire
The Spire is a novel by William Golding that explores obsession, faith, and human folly through the story of a dean determined to build an immense cathedral spire against all practical and moral constraints.
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B.
The Glass Church
The Glass Church is a renowned modernist chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, celebrated for its extensive use of glass and its harmonious integration with the surrounding natural landscape.
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C.
The Warden
The Warden is an 1855 novel by Anthony Trollope that inaugurates his Chronicles of Barsetshire series, focusing on church politics, moral conflict, and social reform in a fictional English cathedral town.
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D.
Der Turm
Der Turm is a late Expressionist drama by Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal that reimagines Shakespeare’s "The Tempest" in a dark, politically charged setting.
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E.
Tower of Glass
Tower of Glass is a 1970 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of artificial intelligence, class hierarchy, and the ethics of creating sentient beings.
- 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: The Spire Target entity description: The Spire is the towering upper section of Icecrown Citadel in World of Warcraft, serving as the final approach to the Lich King’s throne and the climactic raid encounters.
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A.
The Spire
The Spire is a novel by William Golding that explores obsession, faith, and human folly through the story of a dean determined to build an immense cathedral spire against all practical and moral constraints.
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B.
The Glass Church
The Glass Church is a renowned modernist chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, celebrated for its extensive use of glass and its harmonious integration with the surrounding natural landscape.
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C.
The Warden
The Warden is an 1855 novel by Anthony Trollope that inaugurates his Chronicles of Barsetshire series, focusing on church politics, moral conflict, and social reform in a fictional English cathedral town.
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D.
Der Turm
Der Turm is a late Expressionist drama by Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal that reimagines Shakespeare’s "The Tempest" in a dark, politically charged setting.
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E.
Tower of Glass
Tower of Glass is a 1970 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of artificial intelligence, class hierarchy, and the ethics of creating sentient beings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
location
ⓘ
raid subzone ⓘ |
| accessRequirement |
defeat Blood-Queen Lana’thel
ⓘ
defeat Professor Putricide ⓘ defeat Sindragosa ⓘ |
| appearsIn | World of Warcraft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInExpansion | World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| availableInDifficulty |
10-player
ⓘ
10-player heroic ⓘ 25-player ⓘ 25-player heroic ⓘ |
| chronology |
comes after The Upper Spire in raid progression
ⓘ
precedes The Frozen Throne platform encounter ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Sindragosa’s Lair
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Frozen Throne NERFINISHED ⓘ The Upper Spire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Sindragosa’s Lair entrance
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Teleporter to The Frozen Throne NERFINISHED ⓘ The Frozen Throne platform ⓘ The Lich King encounter ⓘ |
| controlledBy | The Lich King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| environmentTheme | death knight ⓘ |
| environmentType | ice fortress ⓘ |
| expansionPatchIntroduced | Patch 3.3.0 ⓘ |
| factionAssociation | Scourge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalApproachTo |
Frozen Throne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Lich King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gameMode | raid ⓘ |
| gameUniverse | Warcraft universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Icecrown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Northrend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| loreSignificance |
culmination of the Icecrown Citadel campaign
ⓘ
seat of the Lich King’s power ⓘ |
| notableFor |
climactic raid encounters
ⓘ
final battle against the Lich King ⓘ |
| partOf | Icecrown Citadel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryBoss | The Lich King GENERATED ⓘ |
| raidSizeRange | 10–25 players ⓘ |
| raidWingOrder |
final wing
ⓘ
fourth wing ⓘ |
| travelMechanic |
elevator
ⓘ
teleport pads ⓘ |
| zoneCategory | raid wing ⓘ |
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: The Spire Description of subject: The Spire is the towering upper section of Icecrown Citadel in World of Warcraft, serving as the final approach to the Lich King’s throne and the climactic raid encounters.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.