Heardred
E493762
Heardred is a legendary king of the Geats in the Old English epic Beowulf, known as the successor of Hygelac and predecessor of Beowulf.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heardred canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5094181 — 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: Heardred Context triple: [Geats, heroAssociated, Heardred]
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A.
Hawkenbury
Hawkenbury is a residential suburb and community area of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England.
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B.
Heanor
Heanor is a town in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England, historically associated with coal mining and textile industries.
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C.
Leintwardine
Leintwardine is a small historic village in Herefordshire, England, near the Welsh border, known for its Roman heritage and rural setting.
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D.
Rawreth
Rawreth is a small rural village and civil parish in Essex, England, known for its agricultural character and proximity to the town of Rayleigh.
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E.
Vale of York
The Vale of York is a broad, low-lying agricultural plain in northern England, lying between the Pennines and the Yorkshire Wolds and centered around the city of York.
- 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: Heardred Target entity description: Heardred is a legendary king of the Geats in the Old English epic Beowulf, known as the successor of Hygelac and predecessor of Beowulf.
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A.
Hawkenbury
Hawkenbury is a residential suburb and community area of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England.
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B.
Heanor
Heanor is a town in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England, historically associated with coal mining and textile industries.
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C.
Leintwardine
Leintwardine is a small historic village in Herefordshire, England, near the Welsh border, known for its Roman heritage and rural setting.
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D.
Rawreth
Rawreth is a small rural village and civil parish in Essex, England, known for its agricultural character and proximity to the town of Rayleigh.
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E.
Vale of York
The Vale of York is a broad, low-lying agricultural plain in northern England, lying between the Pennines and the Yorkshire Wolds and centered around the city of York.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Beowulf character
ⓘ
Geatish king ⓘ legendary king ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Beowulf ⓘ |
| basedOn | possibly historical Geatish ruler ⓘ |
| culture | Old English ⓘ |
| deathCause | killed in battle ⓘ |
| enemy | Onela ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Geat ⓘ |
| father | Hygelac ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn | epic poetry ⓘ |
| kingdom | Geatland ⓘ |
| languageOfSource | Old English ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Germanic heroic legend ⓘ |
| mother | Hygd ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | intermediate king between Hygelac and Beowulf ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being predecessor of Beowulf
ⓘ
being successor of Hygelac ⓘ |
| position |
king of the Geats
ⓘ
linked to:
Hygelac
|
| predecessor | Hygelac ⓘ |
| relative |
Beowulf
ⓘ
Hygd ⓘ Hygelac ⓘ |
| spouse | unnamed wife ⓘ |
| successor | Beowulf ⓘ |
| supports |
Eadgils
ⓘ
Eanmund ⓘ |
| timePeriod | legendary Migration Age ⓘ |
| workOrigin | Anglo-Saxon England ⓘ |
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: Heardred Description of subject: Heardred is a legendary king of the Geats in the Old English epic Beowulf, known as the successor of Hygelac and predecessor of Beowulf.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.