Harald Fairhair
E1047847
Harald Fairhair was the first king to unify Norway into a single kingdom in the late 9th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harald Fairhair canonical | 9 |
| King Harald Fairhair | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13436954 — 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: Harald Fairhair Context triple: [Earldom of Orkney, foundedBy, Harald Fairhair]
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A.
Harald Sigurdsson
Harald Sigurdsson, better known as Harald Hardrada, was an 11th-century King of Norway famed as a formidable warrior and the last great Viking king, whose 1066 invasion of England marked the end of the Viking Age.
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B.
Harald
Harald is a common Scandinavian male given name, historically borne by several notable kings and figures in Norse and European history.
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C.
Olav Haraldsson
Olav Haraldsson, better known as Saint Olaf, was the early 11th-century king of Norway whose efforts to consolidate Christianity led to his canonization and status as Norway’s patron saint.
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D.
King Olaf I of Norway
King Olaf I of Norway was a late 10th-century Norwegian king known for his aggressive efforts to Christianize Norway and expand its influence in the North Atlantic.
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E.
Svein Haraldsson
Svein Haraldsson, better known as Sweyn Forkbeard, was a Viking king of Denmark and England in the early 11th century and the father of Cnut the Great.
- 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: Harald Fairhair Target entity description: Harald Fairhair was the first king to unify Norway into a single kingdom in the late 9th century.
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A.
Harald Sigurdsson
Harald Sigurdsson, better known as Harald Hardrada, was an 11th-century King of Norway famed as a formidable warrior and the last great Viking king, whose 1066 invasion of England marked the end of the Viking Age.
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B.
Harald
Harald is a common Scandinavian male given name, historically borne by several notable kings and figures in Norse and European history.
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C.
Olav Haraldsson
Olav Haraldsson, better known as Saint Olaf, was the early 11th-century king of Norway whose efforts to consolidate Christianity led to his canonization and status as Norway’s patron saint.
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D.
King Olaf I of Norway
King Olaf I of Norway was a late 10th-century Norwegian king known for his aggressive efforts to Christianize Norway and expand its influence in the North Atlantic.
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E.
Svein Haraldsson
Svein Haraldsson, better known as Sweyn Forkbeard, was a Viking king of Denmark and England in the early 11th century and the father of Cnut the Great.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Norway
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Viking Age ruler ⓘ historical figure ⓘ human ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Harald Hårfagre
NERFINISHED
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Harald I of Norway NERFINISHED ⓘ Haraldr hárfagri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Bjørn Farmann
NERFINISHED
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Eric Bloodaxe NERFINISHED ⓘ Frode Haraldsson NERFINISHED ⓘ Gudrød Ljome NERFINISHED ⓘ Guttorm Haraldsson NERFINISHED ⓘ Haakon the Good NERFINISHED ⓘ Halfdan Haraldsson the Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Ingegjerd Haraldsdatter NERFINISHED ⓘ Olaf Haraldsson Geirstadalf NERFINISHED ⓘ Olav Haraldsson NERFINISHED ⓘ Ragnvald Rettilbeine NERFINISHED ⓘ Sigfrid Haraldsson NERFINISHED ⓘ Sigurd Rise NERFINISHED ⓘ Ålov Årbot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Norway ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | c. 850 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | c. 932 ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Egils saga
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fagrskinna NERFINISHED ⓘ Heimskringla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Norwegian ⓘ |
| father | Halfdan the Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Old Norse ⓘ |
| legendaryMotive | vow not to cut or comb his hair until he had united Norway ⓘ |
| mother | Ragnhild Sigurdsdatter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding the Norwegian monarchy
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unifying Norway into a single kingdom ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Norway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vestfold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Norway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rogaland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
King of Norway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
King of Vestfold NERFINISHED ⓘ King of Westfold and Agder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Halfdan the Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | c. 930 ⓘ |
| reignStart | c. 872 ⓘ |
| religion | Norse paganism ⓘ |
| spouse |
Gyda Eiriksdatter
NERFINISHED
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Ragnhild the Mighty NERFINISHED ⓘ Åsa Håkonsdatter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor |
Eric Bloodaxe
NERFINISHED
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Haakon the Good NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Viking Age 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: Harald Fairhair Description of subject: Harald Fairhair was the first king to unify Norway into a single kingdom in the late 9th century.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
King Harald Fairhair