Old English
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Old English refers to the descendants of medieval English settlers in Ireland who formed a distinct, traditionally Catholic, landed elite integrated into Irish society yet retaining elements of English identity.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Old English canonical | 2 |
| Old English (Ireland) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19175409 — 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 English Context triple: [Old English nobility in Ireland, sometimesDescribedAs, Old English]
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A.
Old English
Old English is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken and written in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland roughly between the 5th and 12th centuries.
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B.
Old Saxon
Old Saxon is an early West Germanic language spoken by the Saxons in what is now northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands, best known from texts like the biblical poem Heliand and as an ancestor of Low German.
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C.
Middle Low Saxon
Middle Low Saxon is a historical West Germanic language once widely used in northern Germany and surrounding regions, particularly as a lingua franca of the Hanseatic League.
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D.
Old Frisian
Old Frisian is an early medieval West Germanic language, ancestral to modern Frisian, once spoken along the North Sea coast in what is now the northern Netherlands and northwestern Germany.
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E.
Middle English
Middle English is the historical stage of the English language spoken and written roughly between the late 11th and late 15th centuries, exemplified by works like Chaucer’s "Canterbury Tales."
- 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 English Target entity description: Old English refers to the descendants of medieval English settlers in Ireland who formed a distinct, traditionally Catholic, landed elite integrated into Irish society yet retaining elements of English identity.
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A.
Old English
Old English is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken and written in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland roughly between the 5th and 12th centuries.
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B.
Old Saxon
Old Saxon is an early West Germanic language spoken by the Saxons in what is now northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands, best known from texts like the biblical poem Heliand and as an ancestor of Low German.
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C.
Middle Low Saxon
Middle Low Saxon is a historical West Germanic language once widely used in northern Germany and surrounding regions, particularly as a lingua franca of the Hanseatic League.
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D.
Old Frisian
Old Frisian is an early medieval West Germanic language, ancestral to modern Frisian, once spoken along the North Sea coast in what is now the northern Netherlands and northwestern Germany.
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E.
Middle English
Middle English is the historical stage of the English language spoken and written roughly between the late 11th and late 15th centuries, exemplified by works like Chaucer’s "Canterbury Tales."
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Old English
linked to: Old English