Arthur's companion
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Arthur's companion is Sir Bedivere, one of the earliest and most loyal Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, famed for returning Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arthur's companion canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3287818 — 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: Arthur's companion Context triple: [Bedivere, role, Arthur's companion]
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A.
Bard the Bowman
Bard the Bowman is a skilled archer and grim but noble leader from J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit," renowned for slaying the dragon Smaug and later becoming King of Dale.
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B.
Squire
The Squire is a youthful, romantic, and chivalrous nobleman-in-training in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, known for his courtly manners, artistic talents, and devotion to love.
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C.
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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D.
Giles
Giles is the given name of Lytton Strachey, the influential English writer and critic associated with the Bloomsbury Group.
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E.
Giles
Giles is a lonely, aging gay artist and Elisa's compassionate neighbor and confidant in Guillermo del Toro's film "The Shape of Water."
- 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: Arthur's companion Target entity description: Arthur's companion is Sir Bedivere, one of the earliest and most loyal Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, famed for returning Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake.
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A.
Bard the Bowman
Bard the Bowman is a skilled archer and grim but noble leader from J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit," renowned for slaying the dragon Smaug and later becoming King of Dale.
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B.
Squire
The Squire is a youthful, romantic, and chivalrous nobleman-in-training in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, known for his courtly manners, artistic talents, and devotion to love.
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C.
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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D.
Giles
Giles is the given name of Lytton Strachey, the influential English writer and critic associated with the Bloomsbury Group.
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E.
Giles
Giles is a lonely, aging gay artist and Elisa's compassionate neighbor and confidant in Guillermo del Toro's film "The Shape of Water."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arthurian character
ⓘ
Knight of the Round Table ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| allegiance |
King Arthur's court
ⓘ
surface form:
Camelot
|
| appearsIn |
Arthurian legend
ⓘ
Matter of Britain ⓘ |
| associatedObject |
mythical Round Table of Camelot
ⓘ
surface form:
Round Table
|
| associatedTheme |
chivalry
ⓘ
loyalty ⓘ obedience to a dying king ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Excalibur
ⓘ
The Lady of the Lake ⓘ
surface form:
Lady of the Lake
|
| companionOf | King Arthur ⓘ |
| culture | British mythology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
Middle English
ⓘ
Old French ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
chivalric romance
ⓘ
romance ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | medieval literature ⓘ |
| loyalTo | King Arthur ⓘ |
| loyaltyTrait | loyal ⓘ |
| mythologicalCycle |
Arthurian legend
ⓘ
surface form:
Arthurian cycle
|
| narrativeMoment | present at King Arthur's final moments ⓘ |
| notableFor | returning Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake ⓘ |
| roleInLegend | one of the earliest Knights of the Round Table ⓘ |
| servesAs | Arthur's companion ⓘ |
| setting |
Great Britain
ⓘ
surface form:
Britain
King Arthur's court ⓘ
surface form:
Camelot
|
| task | dispose of Excalibur at Arthur's command ⓘ |
| weapon | sword ⓘ |
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: Arthur's companion Description of subject: Arthur's companion is Sir Bedivere, one of the earliest and most loyal Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, famed for returning Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.