Kingdom of Ossory
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The Kingdom of Ossory was a medieval Irish kingdom located in what is now largely County Kilkenny and parts of surrounding counties, historically ruled by the Mac Giolla Phádraig (Fitzpatrick) dynasty.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kingdom of Ossory canonical | 24 |
| Kingdom of Osraige | 2 |
| kingdom of Osraige | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9337104 — 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: Kingdom of Ossory Context triple: [Fitzpatrick, historicallyAssociatedWith, Kingdom of Ossory]
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Kingdom of Desmond
The Kingdom of Desmond was a medieval Gaelic Irish realm in southwestern Ireland, ruled predominantly by the MacCarthy dynasty and centered in what is now County Cork and County Kerry.
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B.
Kingdom of Breifne
The Kingdom of Breifne was a medieval Gaelic Irish kingdom in north-central Ireland, roughly encompassing modern County Cavan and parts of neighboring counties, ruled predominantly by the O'Rourke and O'Reilly dynasties.
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C.
Kingdom of Thomond
The Kingdom of Thomond was a medieval Irish realm in western Ireland, centered in modern County Clare and ruled for centuries by the O'Brien dynasty.
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D.
Kingdom of Munster
The Kingdom of Munster was a major medieval Irish province-kingdom in the south of Ireland, historically ruled by powerful dynasties such as the Dál gCais and associated with figures like Brian Boru.
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E.
Kingdom of Connacht
The Kingdom of Connacht was a medieval Irish kingdom in the west of Ireland, centered on the province of Connacht and ruled by dynasties such as the Uí Briúin.
- 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: Kingdom of Ossory Target entity description: The Kingdom of Ossory was a medieval Irish kingdom located in what is now largely County Kilkenny and parts of surrounding counties, historically ruled by the Mac Giolla Phádraig (Fitzpatrick) dynasty.
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A.
Kingdom of Desmond
The Kingdom of Desmond was a medieval Gaelic Irish realm in southwestern Ireland, ruled predominantly by the MacCarthy dynasty and centered in what is now County Cork and County Kerry.
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B.
Kingdom of Breifne
The Kingdom of Breifne was a medieval Gaelic Irish kingdom in north-central Ireland, roughly encompassing modern County Cavan and parts of neighboring counties, ruled predominantly by the O'Rourke and O'Reilly dynasties.
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C.
Kingdom of Thomond
The Kingdom of Thomond was a medieval Irish realm in western Ireland, centered in modern County Clare and ruled for centuries by the O'Brien dynasty.
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D.
Kingdom of Munster
The Kingdom of Munster was a major medieval Irish province-kingdom in the south of Ireland, historically ruled by powerful dynasties such as the Dál gCais and associated with figures like Brian Boru.
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E.
Kingdom of Connacht
The Kingdom of Connacht was a medieval Irish kingdom in the west of Ireland, centered on the province of Connacht and ruled by dynasties such as the Uí Briúin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Kingdom of Ossory Description of subject: The Kingdom of Ossory was a medieval Irish kingdom located in what is now largely County Kilkenny and parts of surrounding counties, historically ruled by the Mac Giolla Phádraig (Fitzpatrick) dynasty.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Upper Ossory in present-day County Laois
subject linked to:
Fitzpatrick (surname)
linked to: Kingdom of Ossory
subject linked to:
derived from Gaelic Mac Giolla Phádraig