Queen Medb
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Queen Medb is a powerful and cunning warrior-queen from Irish mythology, best known as the central figure of the epic Táin Bó Cúailnge.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Medb | 11 |
| Queen Medb canonical | 5 |
| Macha of Ulster | 1 |
| Medb of Connacht | 1 |
| Queen Medb of Connacht | 1 |
| Queen of Connacht | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9401297 — 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: Queen Medb Context triple: [Cruachan, associatedWithDeityOrFigure, Queen Medb]
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A.
Queen Maeve
Queen Maeve is a powerful, Wonder Woman–like superheroine in the TV series "The Boys," known for her super strength, disillusionment with her corporate-controlled team, and complex moral struggle.
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B.
Ó Cuinn
Ó Cuinn is an Irish Gaelic surname that is the original form of the anglicized name Quinn.
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Deirdre
Deirdre is a tragic heroine of Irish Celtic mythology, famed for her great beauty and the sorrowful love story that leads to her and her lovers’ downfall.
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D.
Princess Nuala
Princess Nuala is a fictional elven royal and key character in the fantasy film "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
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E.
Gruoch of Scotland
Gruoch of Scotland was an 11th-century Scottish noblewoman, historically the wife of King Macbeth and later queen consort of Scotland.
- 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: Queen Medb Target entity description: Queen Medb is a powerful and cunning warrior-queen from Irish mythology, best known as the central figure of the epic Táin Bó Cúailnge.
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A.
Queen Maeve
Queen Maeve is a powerful, Wonder Woman–like superheroine in the TV series "The Boys," known for her super strength, disillusionment with her corporate-controlled team, and complex moral struggle.
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B.
Ó Cuinn
Ó Cuinn is an Irish Gaelic surname that is the original form of the anglicized name Quinn.
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C.
Deirdre
Deirdre is a tragic heroine of Irish Celtic mythology, famed for her great beauty and the sorrowful love story that leads to her and her lovers’ downfall.
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D.
Princess Nuala
Princess Nuala is a fictional elven royal and key character in the fantasy film "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
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E.
Gruoch of Scotland
Gruoch of Scotland was an 11th-century Scottish noblewoman, historically the wife of King Macbeth and later queen consort of Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Queen Medb Description of subject: Queen Medb is a powerful and cunning warrior-queen from Irish mythology, best known as the central figure of the epic Táin Bó Cúailnge.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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