Death Knight
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Death Knight is a heroic, plate-wearing melee class in World of Warcraft that wields dark, necromantic powers and runeblade weaponry to tank or deal damage.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Death Knight canonical | 1 |
| Death Knight of the Scourge | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11563338 — 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: Death Knight Context triple: [World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, introducedClass, Death Knight]
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A.
Demon Hunter
Demon Hunter is a fast, aggressive Hearthstone class themed around fel magic and demonic powers, specializing in direct damage, lifesteal, and high-tempo plays.
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B.
Paladin
The Paladin is a chivalrous knight figure often used as a school mascot to symbolize courage, honor, and protection.
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C.
Paladin
Paladin is the sophisticated, gun-for-hire protagonist of the Western television series "Have Gun – Will Travel," known for his black attire, calling card, and strict personal code of honor.
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D.
Paladin
Paladin is a playable class in Hearthstone themed around holy warriors who use healing, protective magic, and summoned minions to control the battlefield.
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E.
Venthyr
Venthyr are a vampiric, aristocratic covenant in World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands expansion, ruling the gothic realm of Revendreth and tasked with redeeming or punishing sinful souls.
- 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: Death Knight Target entity description: Death Knight is a heroic, plate-wearing melee class in World of Warcraft that wields dark, necromantic powers and runeblade weaponry to tank or deal damage.
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A.
Demon Hunter
Demon Hunter is a fast, aggressive Hearthstone class themed around fel magic and demonic powers, specializing in direct damage, lifesteal, and high-tempo plays.
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B.
Paladin
The Paladin is a chivalrous knight figure often used as a school mascot to symbolize courage, honor, and protection.
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C.
Paladin
Paladin is the sophisticated, gun-for-hire protagonist of the Western television series "Have Gun – Will Travel," known for his black attire, calling card, and strict personal code of honor.
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D.
Paladin
Paladin is a playable class in Hearthstone themed around holy warriors who use healing, protective magic, and summoned minions to control the battlefield.
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E.
Venthyr
Venthyr are a vampiric, aristocratic covenant in World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands expansion, ruling the gothic realm of Revendreth and tasked with redeeming or punishing sinful souls.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
damage dealer class
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hero class ⓘ plate-wearing melee class ⓘ player class ⓘ tank class ⓘ |
| appearsIn | World of Warcraft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedFaction | Knights of the Ebon Blade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canDualWieldInSpec | Frost ⓘ |
| canRaiseUndeadMinions | true ⓘ |
| canTankInSpec | Blood ⓘ |
| classColor | #C41E3A ⓘ |
| classHall | Acherus: The Ebon Hold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| combatRange | melee ⓘ |
| dpsSpecialization |
Frost
ⓘ
Unholy ⓘ |
| factionAvailability |
Alliance
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Horde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heroClassRequirement | requires high-level existing character at introduction ⓘ |
| originallyCreatedBy | the Lich King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playstyleTheme |
anti-paladin
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dark knight ⓘ |
| primaryArmorType | plate GENERATED ⓘ |
| primaryResource | runes ⓘ |
| role |
melee DPS
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tank ⓘ |
| secondaryResource | runic power ⓘ |
| signatureAbility |
Anti-Magic Shell
NERFINISHED
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Army of the Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ Death Gate NERFINISHED ⓘ Death Grip ⓘ Death Strike NERFINISHED ⓘ Death and Decay NERFINISHED ⓘ Icebound Fortitude NERFINISHED ⓘ Raise Dead ⓘ |
| specialization |
Blood
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Frost ⓘ Unholy ⓘ |
| startingExpansion | Wrath of the Lich King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startingLevelAtRelease | 55 ⓘ |
| startingZone | Acherus: The Ebon Hold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tankSpecialization | Blood ⓘ |
| usesMagicSchool |
frost
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shadow ⓘ unholy ⓘ |
| usesPowerType | necromancy ⓘ |
| weaponTypes |
one-handed axes
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one-handed maces ⓘ one-handed swords ⓘ two-handed axes ⓘ two-handed maces ⓘ two-handed swords ⓘ |
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: Death Knight Description of subject: Death Knight is a heroic, plate-wearing melee class in World of Warcraft that wields dark, necromantic powers and runeblade weaponry to tank or deal damage.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Death Knight of the Scourge