Uí Néill
E222869
Uí Néill was a powerful medieval Irish royal dynasty that dominated much of northern and central Ireland and produced many of the island’s high kings.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Uí Néill canonical | 5 |
| Cenél nEógain | 1 |
| Clann Cholmáin | 1 |
| Gaelic Irish lords | 1 |
| Northern Uí Néill | 1 |
| O'Neills of Tyrone | 1 |
| Southern Uí Néill | 1 |
| Uí Néill and Connachta dynastic complex | 1 |
| Uí Néill dynasties | 1 |
| Uí Néill dynasty | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1985011 — 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: Uí Néill Context triple: [Gaelic Ireland, notableDynasty, Uí Néill]
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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.
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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C.
Conachair
Conachair is a prominent sea cliff and the highest peak on the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda, known for its dramatic Atlantic-facing precipices.
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D.
MacJohn
MacJohn is a surname variant of Johnson, typically reflecting a Gaelic-influenced patronymic form meaning "son of John."
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E.
Dál Riata
Dál Riata was an early medieval Gaelic overkingdom that encompassed parts of western Scotland and northeastern Ireland and played a key role in the spread of Gaelic culture and Christianity in the region.
- 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: Uí Néill Target entity description: Uí Néill was a powerful medieval Irish royal dynasty that dominated much of northern and central Ireland and produced many of the island’s high kings.
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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.
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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C.
Conachair
Conachair is a prominent sea cliff and the highest peak on the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda, known for its dramatic Atlantic-facing precipices.
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D.
MacJohn
MacJohn is a surname variant of Johnson, typically reflecting a Gaelic-influenced patronymic form meaning "son of John."
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E.
Dál Riata
Dál Riata was an early medieval Gaelic overkingdom that encompassed parts of western Scotland and northeastern Ireland and played a key role in the spread of Gaelic culture and Christianity in the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish royal dynasty
ⓘ
medieval dynasty ⓘ |
| country | Ireland ⓘ |
| dominancePeriod | early Middle Ages ⓘ |
| dynasticBranch |
Cenél Conaill
ⓘ
Cenél Lóegaire ⓘ Uí Néill self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cenél nEógain
Cenél nÉndai ⓘ Uí Néill self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Clann Cholmáin
Síl nÁedo Sláine ⓘ |
| endTime | 12th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Gaels ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Niall of the Nine Hostages
ⓘ
surface form:
Niall Noígíallach
|
| hasPart |
Uí Néill
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Uí Néill
Uí Néill self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Uí Néill
|
| historicalRole | shaped early medieval Irish kingship ⓘ |
| houseStyle | patrilineal dynasty ⓘ |
| language | Old Irish ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Niall of the Nine Hostages
ⓘ
surface form:
Niall Noígíallach
|
| notableMember |
Congal Cennmagair
ⓘ
Ó Néill ⓘ
surface form:
Domnall Ua Néill
Domnall mac Áedo ⓘ Flann Sinna ⓘ Muirchertach mac Néill ⓘ Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid ⓘ
surface form:
Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill
Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid ⓘ Niall Glúndub ⓘ Niall of the Nine Hostages ⓘ
surface form:
Niall Noígíallach
Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair ⓘ Áed Findliath ⓘ Áed Ua Néill ⓘ |
| opponent |
Dál gCais
ⓘ
Eóganachta ⓘ |
| politicalStatus |
overkings of central Ireland
ⓘ
overkings of northern Ireland ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
High Kingship of Ireland
ⓘ
surface form:
High King of Ireland
|
| produced | many High Kings of Ireland ⓘ |
| region |
central Ireland
ⓘ
Northern Ireland ⓘ
surface form:
northern Ireland
|
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| socialClass | Gaelic nobility ⓘ |
| startTime | 5th century ⓘ |
| successor | provincial lordships of Ulster and Meath ⓘ |
| territory |
Ailech
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Mide ⓘ Tara ⓘ Tyrconnell ⓘ
surface form:
Tír Conaill
Tír Eoghain ⓘ
surface form:
Tír Eógain
|
| traditionalGenealogy | descendants of Niall of the Nine Hostages ⓘ |
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: Uí Néill Description of subject: Uí Néill was a powerful medieval Irish royal dynasty that dominated much of northern and central Ireland and produced many of the island’s high kings.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Gaelic Irish lords
this entity surface form:
Northern Uí Néill
this entity surface form:
Southern Uí Néill
this entity surface form:
Cenél nEógain
this entity surface form:
Clann Cholmáin
this entity surface form:
O'Neills of Tyrone
this entity surface form:
Uí Néill dynasty