Early Modern Irish
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Early Modern Irish is the historical stage of the Irish language used roughly between the 13th and 17th centuries, serving as the basis for the modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx languages.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Early Modern Irish canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T339558 — 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.
Target entity: Early Modern Irish Context triple: [Middle Irish, developedInto, Early Modern Irish]
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A.
Early Modern English
Early Modern English is the stage of the English language used roughly between the late 15th and early 17th centuries, exemplified by the works of Shakespeare and the language of the King James Bible.
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B.
Modern Irish
Modern Irish is the contemporary Goidelic Celtic language spoken primarily in Ireland, descended from earlier stages such as Old and Middle Irish.
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C.
Old Irish
Old Irish is the earliest recorded form of the Goidelic Celtic languages, historically spoken in Ireland and parts of Scotland between roughly the 6th and 10th centuries.
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D.
Middle Irish
Middle Irish is the historical stage of the Irish language spoken and written roughly between the 10th and 12th centuries, serving as a bridge between Old Irish and Early Modern Irish.
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E.
English Renaissance
The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England, roughly spanning the late 15th to early 17th centuries, marked by a flowering of literature, drama, and humanist thought exemplified by figures like William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Early Modern Irish Target entity description: Early Modern Irish is the historical stage of the Irish language used roughly between the 13th and 17th centuries, serving as the basis for the modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx languages.
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A.
Early Modern English
Early Modern English is the stage of the English language used roughly between the late 15th and early 17th centuries, exemplified by the works of Shakespeare and the language of the King James Bible.
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B.
Modern Irish
Modern Irish is the contemporary Goidelic Celtic language spoken primarily in Ireland, descended from earlier stages such as Old and Middle Irish.
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C.
Old Irish
Old Irish is the earliest recorded form of the Goidelic Celtic languages, historically spoken in Ireland and parts of Scotland between roughly the 6th and 10th centuries.
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D.
Middle Irish
Middle Irish is the historical stage of the Irish language spoken and written roughly between the 10th and 12th centuries, serving as a bridge between Old Irish and Early Modern Irish.
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E.
English Renaissance
The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England, roughly spanning the late 15th to early 17th centuries, marked by a flowering of literature, drama, and humanist thought exemplified by figures like William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Goidelic language variety
ⓘ
historical language stage ⓘ stage of the Irish language ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Irish language
ⓘ
surface form:
Classical Gaelic
Middle Irish ⓘ
surface form:
Classical Irish
|
| basisFor |
Manx
ⓘ
Modern Irish ⓘ Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| developsFrom |
Middle Irish
ⓘ
Old Irish ⓘ |
| endTimeApproximate | c. 1650 ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Manx
ⓘ
Modern Irish ⓘ Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| follows | Middle Irish ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
VSO basic word order
ⓘ
complex verbal morphology ⓘ conservative orthography ⓘ inflected prepositions ⓘ initial consonant mutations ⓘ relatively standardized literary norm ⓘ |
| influenced |
Manx
ⓘ
surface form:
Classical Manx
Early Modern Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Goidelic
ⓘ
surface form:
Celtic
Goidelic ⓘ |
| partOf | Irish language ⓘ |
| standardFormOf |
Irish language
ⓘ
surface form:
Classical Gaelic
|
| startTimeApproximate | c. 1200 ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf |
Celtic languages
ⓘ
Goidelic ⓘ
surface form:
Goidelic languages
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Insular Celtic languages ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Gaelic learned orders in Scotland
ⓘ
learned classes in Gaelic Ireland ⓘ professional poets (filí) ⓘ |
| usedFor |
annals and chronicles
ⓘ
legal texts ⓘ poetry ⓘ religious literature ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod |
13th century
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14th century ⓘ 15th century ⓘ 16th century ⓘ 17th century ⓘ |
| usedInTerritory |
Ireland
ⓘ
Isle of Man (crown dependency) ⓘ
surface form:
Isle of Man
Scottish Highlands ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Irish minuscule
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Latin script ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Early Modern Irish Description of subject: Early Modern Irish is the historical stage of the Irish language used roughly between the 13th and 17th centuries, serving as the basis for the modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx languages.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.