Domnall mac Ailpín
E186059
Domnall mac Ailpín was a 9th-century king of the Picts (often regarded as an early king of Scotland) and a member of the Alpin dynasty who ruled after Kenneth MacAlpin.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Domnall mac Causantín | 3 |
| Domnall mac Ailpín canonical | 2 |
| Domnall I | 1 |
| Domnall II | 1 |
| Domnall mac Ailpín, King of Alba | 1 |
| Domnall mac Ailpín, King of the Picts | 1 |
| Domnall mac Constantín | 1 |
| Áed of Scotland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1553788 — 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: Domnall mac Ailpín Context triple: [Kenneth MacAlpin, successor, Domnall mac Ailpín]
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A.
Ailpín mac Echdach
Ailpín mac Echdach was a 9th-century Scottish noble traditionally regarded as the father of Kenneth MacAlpin, the first king to unite the Picts and Scots.
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B.
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife, was a prominent 12th-century Scottish nobleman and mormaer of Fife who played a key role in the early medieval Kingdom of Scotland.
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C.
Donnchad V, Earl of Fife
Donnchad V, Earl of Fife, was a medieval Scottish nobleman from the influential MacDuff family who held one of the kingdom’s most prestigious earldoms and played a key role in the politics of his time.
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D.
Donnchad III, Earl of Fife
Donnchad III, Earl of Fife, was a medieval Scottish nobleman and magnate who held one of the kingdom’s most prestigious earldoms and played a significant role in the politics of his time.
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E.
Kenneth MacAlpin
Kenneth MacAlpin was a 9th-century king traditionally regarded as the founder of the Kingdom of Scotland, uniting the Picts and the Scots under his rule.
- 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: Domnall mac Ailpín Target entity description: Domnall mac Ailpín was a 9th-century king of the Picts (often regarded as an early king of Scotland) and a member of the Alpin dynasty who ruled after Kenneth MacAlpin.
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A.
Ailpín mac Echdach
Ailpín mac Echdach was a 9th-century Scottish noble traditionally regarded as the father of Kenneth MacAlpin, the first king to unite the Picts and Scots.
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B.
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife, was a prominent 12th-century Scottish nobleman and mormaer of Fife who played a key role in the early medieval Kingdom of Scotland.
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C.
Donnchad V, Earl of Fife
Donnchad V, Earl of Fife, was a medieval Scottish nobleman from the influential MacDuff family who held one of the kingdom’s most prestigious earldoms and played a key role in the politics of his time.
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D.
Donnchad III, Earl of Fife
Donnchad III, Earl of Fife, was a medieval Scottish nobleman and magnate who held one of the kingdom’s most prestigious earldoms and played a significant role in the politics of his time.
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E.
Kenneth MacAlpin
Kenneth MacAlpin was a 9th-century king traditionally regarded as the founder of the Kingdom of Scotland, uniting the Picts and the Scots under his rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Domnall mac Ailpín Description of subject: Domnall mac Ailpín was a 9th-century king of the Picts (often regarded as an early king of Scotland) and a member of the Alpin dynasty who ruled after Kenneth MacAlpin.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Áed of Scotland
this entity surface form:
Domnall mac Ailpín, King of the Picts
this entity surface form:
Domnall mac Ailpín, King of Alba
this entity surface form:
Domnall mac Causantín
this entity surface form:
Domnall mac Causantín
this entity surface form:
Domnall mac Causantín
this entity surface form:
Domnall I
this entity surface form:
Domnall mac Constantín
this entity surface form:
Domnall II