Flann Sinna
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Flann Sinna was a 9th–10th century High King of Ireland from the Uí Néill dynasty, known for consolidating power and influencing the island’s early medieval politics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Flann Sinna canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9272713 — 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: Flann Sinna Context triple: [Uí Néill, notableMember, Flann Sinna]
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A.
Niall of the Nine Hostages
Niall of the Nine Hostages is a legendary High King of Ireland, traditionally regarded as the ancestor of the Uí Néill dynasties and a key figure in early Irish history and myth.
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B.
Eóganán mac Óengusa
Eóganán mac Óengusa was a 9th-century king of the Picts who ruled in what is now Scotland shortly before the rise of Kenneth MacAlpin and the formation of the Kingdom of Alba.
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C.
Áed Find
Áed Find was a king of Dál Riata in the 8th century, remembered in later tradition as an important ancestor of the Scottish royal line.
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D.
Ruairí
Ruairí is an Irish given name traditionally borne by men, closely related to names like Roderic/Roderick and associated with historical Gaelic nobility.
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E.
Domnall Brecc
Domnall Brecc was a 7th-century king of Dál Riata in what is now western Scotland, known for his military defeats and the decline of his kingdom’s power during his reign.
- 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: Flann Sinna Target entity description: Flann Sinna was a 9th–10th century High King of Ireland from the Uí Néill dynasty, known for consolidating power and influencing the island’s early medieval politics.
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A.
Niall of the Nine Hostages
Niall of the Nine Hostages is a legendary High King of Ireland, traditionally regarded as the ancestor of the Uí Néill dynasties and a key figure in early Irish history and myth.
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B.
Eóganán mac Óengusa
Eóganán mac Óengusa was a 9th-century king of the Picts who ruled in what is now Scotland shortly before the rise of Kenneth MacAlpin and the formation of the Kingdom of Alba.
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C.
Áed Find
Áed Find was a king of Dál Riata in the 8th century, remembered in later tradition as an important ancestor of the Scottish royal line.
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D.
Ruairí
Ruairí is an Irish given name traditionally borne by men, closely related to names like Roderic/Roderick and associated with historical Gaelic nobility.
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E.
Domnall Brecc
Domnall Brecc was a 7th-century king of Dál Riata in what is now western Scotland, known for his military defeats and the decline of his kingdom’s power during his reign.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Flann Sinna Description of subject: Flann Sinna was a 9th–10th century High King of Ireland from the Uí Néill dynasty, known for consolidating power and influencing the island’s early medieval politics.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.