Gildas
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Gildas was a 6th-century British monk and historian best known for his work "De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae," one of the earliest surviving accounts of post-Roman Britain.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gildas canonical | 3 |
| Saint Gildas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14751870 — 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: Gildas Context triple: [Aurelius Ambrosius, sourceAuthor, Gildas]
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A.
Gregory of Tours
Gregory of Tours was a 6th-century Gallo-Roman bishop and historian best known for his work "History of the Franks," a crucial source on the early Merovingian kingdom and the spread of Christianity among the Franks.
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B.
Sulpicius Severus
Sulpicius Severus was a late 4th- to early 5th-century Christian writer and historian best known for his influential hagiographical and historical works in Latin.
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C.
Alexander of Huntingdon
Alexander of Huntingdon was a medieval Scottish nobleman, known primarily as a younger son of David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, and thus a member of the royal House of Dunkeld.
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D.
Marathonius
Marathonius is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of Deucalion, the legendary survivor of the great flood.
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E.
Hydatius of Aquae Flaviae
Hydatius of Aquae Flaviae was a 5th-century Gallaecian bishop and chronicler whose Latin chronicle is a key source for the history of the late Roman Empire and early Germanic kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula.
- 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: Gildas Target entity description: Gildas was a 6th-century British monk and historian best known for his work "De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae," one of the earliest surviving accounts of post-Roman Britain.
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A.
Gregory of Tours
Gregory of Tours was a 6th-century Gallo-Roman bishop and historian best known for his work "History of the Franks," a crucial source on the early Merovingian kingdom and the spread of Christianity among the Franks.
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B.
Sulpicius Severus
Sulpicius Severus was a late 4th- to early 5th-century Christian writer and historian best known for his influential hagiographical and historical works in Latin.
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C.
Alexander of Huntingdon
Alexander of Huntingdon was a medieval Scottish nobleman, known primarily as a younger son of David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, and thus a member of the royal House of Dunkeld.
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D.
Marathonius
Marathonius is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of Deucalion, the legendary survivor of the great flood.
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E.
Hydatius of Aquae Flaviae
Hydatius of Aquae Flaviae was a 5th-century Gallaecian bishop and chronicler whose Latin chronicle is a key source for the history of the late Roman Empire and early Germanic kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Gildas