Old Irish
E1286
Old Irish is the earliest recorded form of the Goidelic Celtic languages, historically spoken in Ireland and parts of Scotland between roughly the 6th and 10th centuries.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Irish canonical | 34 |
| Middle Irish | 1 |
| Old Irish Brénainn | 1 |
| Old Irish phonology | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18611 — 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: Old Irish Context triple: [Scottish Gaelic, derivedFrom, Old Irish]
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A.
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic is a Celtic language native to Scotland, historically spoken in the Highlands and Islands and closely related to Irish and Manx.
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B.
Norman
Norman is a masculine given name of English origin that became widely used in the English-speaking world.
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C.
Veritas
Veritas is the Latin word for "truth" and is famously used as the motto of Harvard University.
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D.
English
English is a widely spoken West Germanic language that serves as a global lingua franca in education, business, science, and international communication.
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E.
Trinity
The Trinity is the central Christian doctrine that God exists as one divine being in three distinct, co-equal persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
- 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: Old Irish Target entity description: Old Irish is the earliest recorded form of the Goidelic Celtic languages, historically spoken in Ireland and parts of Scotland between roughly the 6th and 10th centuries.
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A.
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic is a Celtic language native to Scotland, historically spoken in the Highlands and Islands and closely related to Irish and Manx.
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B.
Norman
Norman is a masculine given name of English origin that became widely used in the English-speaking world.
-
C.
Veritas
Veritas is the Latin word for "truth" and is famously used as the motto of Harvard University.
-
D.
English
English is a widely spoken West Germanic language that serves as a global lingua franca in education, business, science, and international communication.
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E.
Trinity
The Trinity is the central Christian doctrine that God exists as one divine being in three distinct, co-equal persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Celtic language
ⓘ
Goidelic language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| ancestorOf |
Manx
ⓘ
Middle Irish ⓘ Modern Irish ⓘ Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| attestedIn |
glosses in Latin manuscripts
ⓘ
legal texts ⓘ religious texts ⓘ sagas ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
Primitive Irish
ⓘ
Proto-Celtic ⓘ |
| followedBy | Middle Irish ⓘ |
| follows | Primitive Irish ⓘ |
| hasCaseSystem |
accusative
ⓘ
dative ⓘ genitive ⓘ nominative ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
VSO word order
ⓘ
complex inflectional morphology ⓘ eclipsis ⓘ initial consonant mutation ⓘ lenition ⓘ synthetic verb forms ⓘ |
| hasGenderCategory |
feminine
ⓘ
masculine ⓘ neuter ⓘ |
| hasNumberCategory |
dual
ⓘ
plural ⓘ singular ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Celtic
ⓘ
Goidelic ⓘ Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European
|
| partOf |
Goidelic branch of Celtic
ⓘ
Insular Celtic branch of Celtic ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Ireland
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Indo-European language
ⓘ
Insular Celtic language ⓘ historical language ⓘ medieval language ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Christian monastic communities in Ireland
ⓘ
early medieval Irish scholars ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod |
10th century
ⓘ
6th century ⓘ 7th century ⓘ 8th century ⓘ 9th century ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
Ogham script ⓘ |
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: Old Irish Description of subject: Old Irish is the earliest recorded form of the Goidelic Celtic languages, historically spoken in Ireland and parts of Scotland between roughly the 6th and 10th centuries.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Middle Irish
this entity surface form:
Old Irish phonology
this entity surface form:
Old Irish Brénainn
subject surface form:
filid