Lord Bertilak
E357026
Lord Bertilak is the lord of the castle in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," later revealed to be the human identity of the Green Knight who tests Gawain's chivalry.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lord Bertilak canonical | 1 |
| the Green Knight (Bertilak) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3432073 — 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: Lord Bertilak Context triple: [Hautdesert, ownedBy, Lord Bertilak]
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A.
Lady Bertilak
Lady Bertilak is a seductive and enigmatic noblewoman in the Middle English poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," whose attempts to tempt Sir Gawain test his chivalry and moral integrity.
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B.
Sir Yvain
Sir Yvain is a knight of Arthurian legend, best known as the hero of Chrétien de Troyes’ romance "Yvain, the Knight of the Lion," where he exemplifies chivalry, adventure, and a close bond with a loyal lion companion.
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C.
Palamon
Palamon is a relatively obscure figure in Greek mythology, known primarily as a son of the god Hephaestus.
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D.
Knight of the Bath
The Knight of the Bath is a rank of knighthood within the British Order of the Bath, historically bestowed as a high honor for distinguished military or civil service.
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E.
Baron Perceval
Baron Perceval is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Ireland historically associated with the Perceval family, including John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont.
- 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: Lord Bertilak Target entity description: Lord Bertilak is the lord of the castle in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," later revealed to be the human identity of the Green Knight who tests Gawain's chivalry.
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A.
Lady Bertilak
Lady Bertilak is a seductive and enigmatic noblewoman in the Middle English poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," whose attempts to tempt Sir Gawain test his chivalry and moral integrity.
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B.
Sir Yvain
Sir Yvain is a knight of Arthurian legend, best known as the hero of Chrétien de Troyes’ romance "Yvain, the Knight of the Lion," where he exemplifies chivalry, adventure, and a close bond with a loyal lion companion.
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C.
Palamon
Palamon is a relatively obscure figure in Greek mythology, known primarily as a son of the god Hephaestus.
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D.
Knight of the Bath
The Knight of the Bath is a rank of knighthood within the British Order of the Bath, historically bestowed as a high honor for distinguished military or civil service.
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E.
Baron Perceval
Baron Perceval is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Ireland historically associated with the Perceval family, including John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Lord Bertilak Description of subject: Lord Bertilak is the lord of the castle in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," later revealed to be the human identity of the Green Knight who tests Gawain's chivalry.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
the Green Knight (Bertilak)