Siege Perilous
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Siege Perilous is the legendary vacant seat at King Arthur’s Round Table reserved for the knight destined to achieve the Holy Grail, ultimately filled by Sir Galahad.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Siege Perilous canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10086689 — 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: Siege Perilous Context triple: [Sir Galahad, seatAtRoundTable, Siege Perilous]
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A.
The Grail Knights
The Grail Knights are the holy guardians of the sacred Grail in Richard Wagner’s opera "Parsifal," embodying a chivalric order devoted to spiritual purity and divine service.
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B.
Knightsridge
Knightsridge is a residential area and housing estate located within the town of Livingston in West Lothian, Scotland.
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C.
White Knight
White Knight is a high-altitude, twin-boom jet-powered carrier aircraft developed by Scaled Composites to air-launch experimental spacecraft such as SpaceShipOne.
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D.
Yvain
Yvain is a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, best known as the hero of Chrétien de Troyes’ romance "Yvain, the Knight of the Lion."
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E.
The Kymin
The Kymin is a historic hilltop site near Monmouth in Wales, known for its picturesque views and Georgian-era naval monument and round house.
- 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: Siege Perilous Target entity description: Siege Perilous is the legendary vacant seat at King Arthur’s Round Table reserved for the knight destined to achieve the Holy Grail, ultimately filled by Sir Galahad.
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A.
The Grail Knights
The Grail Knights are the holy guardians of the sacred Grail in Richard Wagner’s opera "Parsifal," embodying a chivalric order devoted to spiritual purity and divine service.
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B.
Knightsridge
Knightsridge is a residential area and housing estate located within the town of Livingston in West Lothian, Scotland.
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C.
White Knight
White Knight is a high-altitude, twin-boom jet-powered carrier aircraft developed by Scaled Composites to air-launch experimental spacecraft such as SpaceShipOne.
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D.
Yvain
Yvain is a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, best known as the hero of Chrétien de Troyes’ romance "Yvain, the Knight of the Lion."
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E.
The Kymin
The Kymin is a historic hilltop site near Monmouth in Wales, known for its picturesque views and Georgian-era naval monument and round house.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arthurian legend element
ⓘ
legendary seat ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Arthurian romances
ⓘ
linked to:
Chrétien de Troyes' Arthurian romances
Le Morte d’Arthur ⓘ
linked to:
Le Morte d'Arthur
Vulgate Cycle ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Holy Grail
ⓘ
King Arthur ⓘ Round Table ⓘ
linked to:
mythical Round Table of Camelot
Sir Galahad ⓘ |
| belongsToTradition | Christianized Arthurian tradition ⓘ |
| createdByTradition | medieval French Arthurian writers ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin | medieval European literature ⓘ |
| dangerTo | unworthy knights ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | the future Grail hero ⓘ |
| filledInStoryBy | Sir Galahad at Pentecost ⓘ |
| genre | myth and legend ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
fatal to any unworthy knight who sits in it
ⓘ
vacant until the coming of the Grail knight ⓘ |
| hasRoleInNarrative |
identifies the true Grail knight
ⓘ
tests the worthiness of knights ⓘ |
| influenced | later depictions of chosen or cursed thrones in fantasy literature ⓘ |
| inscribedWith | Galahad’s name in some versions ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Old French ⓘ |
| linkedToProphecy | prophecy of the Grail knight ⓘ |
| locatedInFictional | Camelot ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | Perilous Seat ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | foreshadowing of Galahad’s destiny ⓘ |
| occupiedBy | Sir Galahad ⓘ |
| partOf |
King Arthur’s Round Table
ⓘ
linked to:
mythical Round Table of Camelot
|
| relatedConcept |
Holy Grail quest
ⓘ
chivalric purity ⓘ divine judgment ⓘ |
| reservedBy | Merlin ⓘ |
| reservedFor | the knight destined to achieve the Holy Grail ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
divine election
ⓘ
predestined success in the Grail quest ⓘ purity ⓘ |
| timeOfOccupationInLegend | after Galahad’s arrival at Camelot ⓘ |
| ultimatelyFilledBy | Sir Galahad ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Siege Perilous Description of subject: Siege Perilous is the legendary vacant seat at King Arthur’s Round Table reserved for the knight destined to achieve the Holy Grail, ultimately filled by Sir Galahad.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.