Percival
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Percival is a knight of Arthurian legend best known for his quest for the Holy Grail and his portrayal as a pure, naive hero who matures through spiritual trials.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Percival canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3203533 — 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: Percival Context triple: [Arthurian legend, hasCharacter, Percival]
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A.
Percival
Percival is the given name of British explorer Percy Fawcett, famed for his expeditions in the Amazon and the legend of the lost city of "Z."
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B.
Rowland
Rowland is the given name of R. H. Macy, the 19th-century American businessman who founded the Macy's department store chain.
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C.
Bertram
Bertram is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, historically associated with nobility and later borne by various notable figures in arts, architecture, and literature.
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D.
Galahad Threepwood
Galahad Threepwood is a roguish, hard-drinking, and charmingly irreverent member of the Blandings Castle household in P. G. Wodehouse’s comic novels, known for his colorful past and knack for getting entangled in farcical schemes.
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E.
Giles
Giles is the given name of Lytton Strachey, the influential English writer and critic associated with the Bloomsbury Group.
- 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: Percival Target entity description: Percival is a knight of Arthurian legend best known for his quest for the Holy Grail and his portrayal as a pure, naive hero who matures through spiritual trials.
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A.
Percival
Percival is the given name of British explorer Percy Fawcett, famed for his expeditions in the Amazon and the legend of the lost city of "Z."
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B.
Rowland
Rowland is the given name of R. H. Macy, the 19th-century American businessman who founded the Macy's department store chain.
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C.
Bertram
Bertram is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, historically associated with nobility and later borne by various notable figures in arts, architecture, and literature.
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D.
Galahad Threepwood
Galahad Threepwood is a roguish, hard-drinking, and charmingly irreverent member of the Blandings Castle household in P. G. Wodehouse’s comic novels, known for his colorful past and knack for getting entangled in farcical schemes.
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E.
Giles
Giles is the given name of Lytton Strachey, the influential English writer and critic associated with the Bloomsbury Group.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arthurian character
ⓘ
Holy Grail hero ⓘ knight ⓘ legendary figure ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Perceval
ⓘ
Peredur ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Perceval, le Conte du Graal
ⓘ
surface form:
"Perceval, le Conte du Graal"
Arthurian legend ⓘ Vulgate Cycle ⓘ
surface form:
Post-Vulgate Cycle
Le Morte d'Arthur ⓘ
surface form:
Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur"
Vulgate Cycle ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Yvain
ⓘ
surface form:
Fisher King
Holy Grail ⓘ King Arthur ⓘ |
| basedOn | Welsh hero Peredur ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
innocence to wisdom
ⓘ
redemption ⓘ spiritual enlightenment ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
chastity
ⓘ
innocence ⓘ naivety ⓘ purity ⓘ |
| comparedWith |
Sir Galahad
ⓘ
surface form:
Galahad
Sir Lancelot ⓘ
surface form:
Lancelot
|
| createdBy | Chrétien de Troyes ⓘ |
| failsAtFirst | asking the Grail Question ⓘ |
| genre | chivalric romance ⓘ |
| influenced | later Grail literature ⓘ |
| laterAchieves | understanding of the Grail mystery ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 12th century romance tradition ⓘ |
| memberOf | Knights of the Round Table ⓘ |
| moralSymbolism |
Christian purity
ⓘ
unworldly simplicity ⓘ |
| motherRelationship | overprotective mother in many versions ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | vehicle for spiritual instruction ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Queste del Saint Graal
ⓘ
surface form:
quest for the Holy Grail
|
| originatesFrom | French Arthurian romance ⓘ |
| questFor | healing the Fisher King ⓘ |
| raisedIn | rural isolation in many versions ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Christian mysticism ⓘ |
| roleInMyth |
Grail seeker
ⓘ
exemplar of the pure knight ⓘ |
| storyArc | ignorant youth to enlightened knight ⓘ |
| symbolicAssociation | Grail Castle ⓘ |
| undergoes |
spiritual maturation
ⓘ
spiritual trials ⓘ |
| weapon | spear ⓘ |
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: Percival Description of subject: Percival is a knight of Arthurian legend best known for his quest for the Holy Grail and his portrayal as a pure, naive hero who matures through spiritual trials.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Idlewild