Imprisoned Demons
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Imprisoned Demons are a Hearthstone card mechanic featuring powerful Demon minions that enter play dormant for several turns before awakening with strong effects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Imprisoned Demons canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11545353 — 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: Imprisoned Demons Context triple: [Ashes of Outland, addsMechanic, Imprisoned Demons]
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A.
Raising Demons
Raising Demons is a humorous memoir by Shirley Jackson that continues her autobiographical accounts of family life and domestic chaos.
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B.
Demons
The Demons are the nickname of the Melbourne Football Club, one of the oldest and most storied teams in Australian rules football.
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C.
Demons
"Demons" is a track by British electronic musician Fatboy Slim, featured on his 2000 album "Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars."
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D.
Demons
"Demons" is a blues-rock song by The Gregg Allman Band that showcases Gregg Allman’s soulful vocals and Southern rock style.
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E.
Demons
Demons is a political and psychological novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores radicalism, moral chaos, and the destructive consequences of nihilist ideology in 19th-century Russia.
- 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: Imprisoned Demons Target entity description: Imprisoned Demons are a Hearthstone card mechanic featuring powerful Demon minions that enter play dormant for several turns before awakening with strong effects.
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A.
Raising Demons
Raising Demons is a humorous memoir by Shirley Jackson that continues her autobiographical accounts of family life and domestic chaos.
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B.
Demons
The Demons are the nickname of the Melbourne Football Club, one of the oldest and most storied teams in Australian rules football.
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C.
Demons
"Demons" is a track by British electronic musician Fatboy Slim, featured on his 2000 album "Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars."
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D.
Demons
"Demons" is a blues-rock song by The Gregg Allman Band that showcases Gregg Allman’s soulful vocals and Southern rock style.
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E.
Demons
Demons is a political and psychological novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores radicalism, moral chaos, and the destructive consequences of nihilist ideology in 19th-century Russia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hearthstone game mechanic
ⓘ
card keyword theme ⓘ |
| appearsInGame | Hearthstone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedClass |
Demon Hunter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Warlock ⓘ |
| awakeningCondition | automatically awaken after a fixed number of turns ⓘ |
| awakeningEffect | trigger a powerful effect when awakening ⓘ |
| awakeningTiming | at the start of the controlling player’s turn after the set number of turns ⓘ |
| balanceTradeoff | low immediate impact for high future impact ⓘ |
| boardPresence | occupy a board slot while dormant ⓘ |
| cannotDoWhileDormant |
attack
ⓘ
be targeted by most spells and effects ⓘ take damage ⓘ |
| cardTextPattern | Dormant for X turns. When this awakens, [effect]. ⓘ |
| cardTribeRequirement | Demon-only minions ⓘ |
| cardType | Minion ⓘ |
| counterplay | opponents can plan around the future awakening turn ⓘ |
| designGoal |
create tempo loss now for future power spike
ⓘ
reward long-term planning ⓘ |
| hasEffectType |
battlefield-wide effects on awakening
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direct damage or removal on awakening ⓘ self-buff or stat-based effects on awakening ⓘ |
| hasKeyword | Dormant ⓘ |
| hasState | Dormant on the board until awakening ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
effects that care about Demons
ⓘ
effects that care about minions on the board ⓘ |
| introducedAs | cycle of imprisoned Demon cards ⓘ |
| mechanicCategory | Hearthstone dormant minion cycle ⓘ |
| mechanicCoreIdea | Demon minions enter play dormant for several turns ⓘ |
| mechanicType | delayed effect minion ⓘ |
| minionTribe | Demon ⓘ |
| playerDecisionImpact | encourage early investment for later tempo swing ⓘ |
| playPattern | played early and pay off after a delay ⓘ |
| rarityPattern | appear at multiple rarities across sets ⓘ |
| requires | surviving the dormant turns on the board ⓘ |
| rulesNote |
count as minions in play while dormant
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their awakening effect is guaranteed if the dormant turns complete ⓘ |
| synergizesWith |
Demon synergy decks
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long-game control strategies ⓘ |
| theme | powerful but temporarily sealed Demons ⓘ |
| visualTheme | Demons bound or sealed until awakening ⓘ |
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Subject: Imprisoned Demons Description of subject: Imprisoned Demons are a Hearthstone card mechanic featuring powerful Demon minions that enter play dormant for several turns before awakening with strong effects.
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