Faughart
E436244
Faughart is a historic village in County Louth, Ireland, known for its ancient religious sites and as the location of the Battle of Faughart in 1318.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Battle of Faughart | 1 |
| Faughart canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4370634 — 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: Faughart Context triple: [Edward Bruce, deathPlace, Faughart]
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A.
Battle of Rathmines
The Battle of Rathmines was a significant 1649 engagement in Dublin during the Irish Confederate Wars, where English Parliamentarian forces decisively defeated a combined Royalist-Confederate army, securing control of the city.
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B.
Battle of Eachroim
The Battle of Eachroim, better known as the Battle of Aughrim (1691), was a decisive engagement in the Williamite War in Ireland that effectively ended Jacobite resistance and secured Protestant ascendancy.
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C.
Battle of Benburb
The Battle of Benburb (1646) was a major Irish Confederate victory in Ulster, where Owen Roe O'Neill’s forces decisively defeated a Scottish Covenanter army, boosting the Confederate Catholic cause during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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D.
Battle of Knocknacross
The Battle of Knocknacross, better known as the Battle of Dungan's Hill, was a major engagement of the Irish Confederate Wars in 1647 in which English Parliamentarian forces decisively defeated an Irish Confederate army in County Meath.
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E.
Battle of Ballinamuck
The Battle of Ballinamuck was a decisive 1798 engagement in County Longford where British forces defeated a combined Irish and French force, effectively ending the main military phase of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
- 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: Faughart Target entity description: Faughart is a historic village in County Louth, Ireland, known for its ancient religious sites and as the location of the Battle of Faughart in 1318.
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A.
Battle of Rathmines
The Battle of Rathmines was a significant 1649 engagement in Dublin during the Irish Confederate Wars, where English Parliamentarian forces decisively defeated a combined Royalist-Confederate army, securing control of the city.
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B.
Battle of Eachroim
The Battle of Eachroim, better known as the Battle of Aughrim (1691), was a decisive engagement in the Williamite War in Ireland that effectively ended Jacobite resistance and secured Protestant ascendancy.
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C.
Battle of Benburb
The Battle of Benburb (1646) was a major Irish Confederate victory in Ulster, where Owen Roe O'Neill’s forces decisively defeated a Scottish Covenanter army, boosting the Confederate Catholic cause during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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D.
Battle of Knocknacross
The Battle of Knocknacross, better known as the Battle of Dungan's Hill, was a major engagement of the Irish Confederate Wars in 1647 in which English Parliamentarian forces decisively defeated an Irish Confederate army in County Meath.
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E.
Battle of Ballinamuck
The Battle of Ballinamuck was a decisive 1798 engagement in County Longford where British forces defeated a combined Irish and French force, effectively ending the main military phase of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
battle
ⓘ
historic site ⓘ village ⓘ |
| combatant |
Anglo-Irish forces
ⓘ
Edward Bruce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| date | 1318-10-14 ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalInterest |
early Christian remains
ⓘ
medieval ecclesiastical remains ⓘ |
| hasCivilParish | Faughart civil parish ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
Irish medieval military history
ⓘ
Irish religious history ⓘ |
| hasDedication | Saint Brigid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEcclesiasticalParish | Faughart parish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEvent | Battle of Faughart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | ancient religious sites ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalPeriod | medieval period ⓘ |
| hasReligiousDenomination |
Roman Catholic tradition
ⓘ
early Christian church ⓘ |
| hasReligiousTradition | pilgrimage on St Brigid’s Day ⓘ |
| hasSite |
St Brigid’s Shrine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St Brigid’s Well NERFINISHED ⓘ early Christian graveyard ⓘ holy well ⓘ medieval church ruins ⓘ pilgrimage site ⓘ |
| hasTopographicalFeature | hilltop site ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfSite |
archaeological site
ⓘ
holy place ⓘ pilgrimage destination ⓘ |
| IrishName | Fochairt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWith | Saint Brigid of Kildare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | historic County Louth landscape ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
County Louth
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Faughart NERFINISHED ⓘ Leinster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Dundalk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyTown | Dundalk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableDeath | Edward Bruce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overlooks | Dundalk Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Bruce campaign in Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | north County Louth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| result | defeat of Edward Bruce ⓘ |
| traditionallyRegardedAs | birthplace of Saint Brigid ⓘ |
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: Faughart Description of subject: Faughart is a historic village in County Louth, Ireland, known for its ancient religious sites and as the location of the Battle of Faughart in 1318.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Battle of Faughart