Fenian cycle
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The Fenian cycle is a body of medieval Irish heroic legends centered on the warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill and his band of hunters, the Fianna.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fenian Cycle | 14 |
| Fenian cycle canonical | 2 |
| The Fenian Cycle | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5416011 — 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: Fenian cycle Context triple: [Pobull Fhinn stone circle, associatedMythology, Fenian cycle]
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Kings of Osraige
The Kings of Osraige were the medieval Gaelic rulers of the Osraige kingdom in southeastern Ireland, from whom the Mac Giolla Phádraig (Fitzpatrick) dynasty descends.
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Taynuilt
Taynuilt is a small Scottish village in the West Highlands, situated near Loch Etive and known for its scenic rural setting and outdoor recreation.
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Dominus Hiberniae
Dominus Hiberniae was the medieval Latin title used by English monarchs to denote their lordship over Ireland before it was elevated to a full kingdom.
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Epic Cycle
The Epic Cycle is a collection of ancient Greek epic poems that together narrate the full mythological saga of the Trojan War and its aftermath beyond what is covered in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
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Chronicle of the Kings of Alba
The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba is a medieval Scottish historical text that records the reigns of early Scottish kings and is a key source for the history of the kingdom of Alba.
- 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: Fenian cycle Target entity description: The Fenian cycle is a body of medieval Irish heroic legends centered on the warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill and his band of hunters, the Fianna.
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A.
Kings of Osraige
The Kings of Osraige were the medieval Gaelic rulers of the Osraige kingdom in southeastern Ireland, from whom the Mac Giolla Phádraig (Fitzpatrick) dynasty descends.
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B.
Taynuilt
Taynuilt is a small Scottish village in the West Highlands, situated near Loch Etive and known for its scenic rural setting and outdoor recreation.
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C.
Dominus Hiberniae
Dominus Hiberniae was the medieval Latin title used by English monarchs to denote their lordship over Ireland before it was elevated to a full kingdom.
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D.
Epic Cycle
The Epic Cycle is a collection of ancient Greek epic poems that together narrate the full mythological saga of the Trojan War and its aftermath beyond what is covered in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
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E.
Chronicle of the Kings of Alba
The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba is a medieval Scottish historical text that records the reigns of early Scottish kings and is a key source for the history of the kingdom of Alba.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Fenian cycle Description of subject: The Fenian cycle is a body of medieval Irish heroic legends centered on the warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill and his band of hunters, the Fianna.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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