Amfortas
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Amfortas is the tormented, wounded king of the Grail in Richard Wagner’s opera "Parsifal," whose suffering drives much of the drama’s spiritual conflict.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Amfortas canonical | 10 |
| King Amfortas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9622506 — 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: Amfortas Context triple: [Parsifal, character, Amfortas]
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A.
Mordred
Mordred is a treacherous knight of Arthurian legend, best known for betraying King Arthur and fatally wounding him at the Battle of Camlann.
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B.
Melisande
Melisande is a minor DC Comics character known primarily as the deceased mother of Talia al Ghul and former lover of the eco-terrorist Ra's al Ghul.
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C.
Morgause
Morgause is a prominent figure in Arthurian legend, often depicted as a queen of Orkney and the mother of several of King Arthur’s nephews, including Gawain.
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D.
Perceval
Perceval is a surname most notably associated with Spencer Perceval, the only British prime minister to have been assassinated while in office.
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E.
Perceval
Perceval is a legendary knight of Arthurian romance best known for his quest for the Holy Grail and his role in medieval French and Welsh tales.
- 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: Amfortas Target entity description: Amfortas is the tormented, wounded king of the Grail in Richard Wagner’s opera "Parsifal," whose suffering drives much of the drama’s spiritual conflict.
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A.
Mordred
Mordred is a treacherous knight of Arthurian legend, best known for betraying King Arthur and fatally wounding him at the Battle of Camlann.
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B.
Melisande
Melisande is a minor DC Comics character known primarily as the deceased mother of Talia al Ghul and former lover of the eco-terrorist Ra's al Ghul.
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C.
Morgause
Morgause is a prominent figure in Arthurian legend, often depicted as a queen of Orkney and the mother of several of King Arthur’s nephews, including Gawain.
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D.
Perceval
Perceval is a surname most notably associated with Spencer Perceval, the only British prime minister to have been assassinated while in office.
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E.
Perceval
Perceval is a legendary knight of Arthurian romance best known for his quest for the Holy Grail and his role in medieval French and Welsh tales.
- 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: Amfortas Description of subject: Amfortas is the tormented, wounded king of the Grail in Richard Wagner’s opera "Parsifal," whose suffering drives much of the drama’s spiritual conflict.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Kundry in Richard Wagner's "Parsifal"
subject linked to:
Kundry in Richard Wagner's "Parsifal"
linked to: Amfortas