Uí Fiachrach
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Uí Fiachrach was a prominent early medieval Irish dynasty that ruled significant territories in Connacht and produced several notable kings and saints.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Uí Fiachrach canonical | 3 |
| Uí Fiachrach Aidhne | 1 |
| Uí Fiachrach Muaidhe | 1 |
| Uí Fiachrach of the north | 1 |
| Ó Flaithbheartaigh clan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1985015 — 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 Fiachrach Context triple: [Gaelic Ireland, notableDynasty, Uí Fiachrach]
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A.
Uí Néill
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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B.
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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C.
Clan Maclean
Clan Maclean is a historic Scottish Highland clan of ancient origin, noted for its warrior tradition, strong maritime connections, and long-standing influence in the Hebrides.
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D.
Clan MacDuff
Clan MacDuff was a powerful medieval Scottish clan traditionally linked to the Earls of Fife and prominent in the early history of the Scottish kingdom.
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E.
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.
- 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 Fiachrach Target entity description: Uí Fiachrach was a prominent early medieval Irish dynasty that ruled significant territories in Connacht and produced several notable kings and saints.
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A.
Uí Néill
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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B.
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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C.
Clan Mac Giolla Phádraig
Clan Mac Giolla Phádraig is a historic Irish Gaelic clan from the Kingdom of Ossory, whose chiefs later became known as the Fitzpatricks, a prominent family in medieval and early modern Ireland.
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D.
Clan Maclean
Clan Maclean is a historic Scottish Highland clan of ancient origin, noted for its warrior tradition, strong maritime connections, and long-standing influence in the Hebrides.
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E.
Clan MacDuff
Clan MacDuff was a powerful medieval Scottish clan traditionally linked to the Earls of Fife and prominent in the early history of the Scottish kingdom.
- 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: Uí Fiachrach Description of subject: Uí Fiachrach was a prominent early medieval Irish dynasty that ruled significant territories in Connacht and produced several notable kings and saints.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Uí Fiachrach Aidhne
this entity surface form:
Uí Fiachrach Muaidhe
this entity surface form:
Uí Fiachrach of the north
this entity surface form:
Ó Flaithbheartaigh clan