Cei
E764910
Cei is a figure from early Welsh Arthurian tradition who served as a prototype for the later literary character Sir Kay.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cei canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8897515 — 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: Cei Context triple: [Sir Kay, basedOn, Cei]
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A.
Celles
Celles is a small French village in the Hérault department of southern France, known for its picturesque location on the shores of the artificial Lac du Salagou.
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B.
Cini
Cini is an Italian surname associated with the family of American singer and actor Al Martino.
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C.
Tyto
Tyto is a genus of medium-sized owls best known for including the widespread barn owl and its close relatives.
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D.
Wem
Wem is a small market town and civil parish in the county of Shropshire, England.
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E.
Orlysiens
Orlysiens are the inhabitants or natives of Orly, a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France.
- 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: Cei Target entity description: Cei is a figure from early Welsh Arthurian tradition who served as a prototype for the later literary character Sir Kay.
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A.
Celles
Celles is a small French village in the Hérault department of southern France, known for its picturesque location on the shores of the artificial Lac du Salagou.
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B.
Cini
Cini is an Italian surname associated with the family of American singer and actor Al Martino.
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C.
Tyto
Tyto is a genus of medium-sized owls best known for including the widespread barn owl and its close relatives.
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D.
Wem
Wem is a small market town and civil parish in the county of Shropshire, England.
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E.
Orlysiens
Orlysiens are the inhabitants or natives of Orly, a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in Welsh mythology
ⓘ
legendary figure ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Culhwch and Olwen
ⓘ
linked to:
Mabinogion
Pa gur yv y porthaur ⓘ Welsh Triads ⓘ early Welsh Arthurian poetry ⓘ |
| associatedWith | King Arthur ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
boastful
ⓘ
fierce ⓘ hot-tempered ⓘ |
| culture | Welsh ⓘ |
| family | son of Cynyr ⓘ |
| genre | Arthurian legend ⓘ |
| hasSupernaturalAbility |
ability to go without sleep for long periods in some tales
ⓘ
ability to grow as tall as the tallest tree in some tales ⓘ ability to hold his breath for nine days and nights in some tales ⓘ ability to radiate supernatural heat from his hands in some tales ⓘ |
| influenced | later continental Arthurian romances ⓘ |
| languageOfAttestation | Welsh ⓘ |
| literaryDevelopment | evolved into the later French and English figure of Sir Kay ⓘ |
| mythologicalContext | Matter of Britain ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Cai
ⓘ
Cai fab Cynyr ⓘ Kay ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | both heroic and abrasive in early Welsh sources ⓘ |
| position | Arthur’s foremost warrior in some Welsh sources ⓘ |
| prototypeFor | Sir Kay ⓘ |
| region |
Britain
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Britain
|
| relative | foster brother of Arthur ⓘ |
| role |
Arthur’s foster brother
ⓘ
companion of King Arthur ⓘ warrior ⓘ |
| scholarlyTopic | Welsh Arthurian studies ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early medieval Welsh literature ⓘ |
| tradition | early Welsh Arthurian tradition ⓘ |
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: Cei Description of subject: Cei is a figure from early Welsh Arthurian tradition who served as a prototype for the later literary character Sir Kay.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.