Cei
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Cei is a figure from early Welsh Arthurian tradition who served as a prototype for the later literary character Sir Kay.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cei canonical | 4 |
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in Welsh mythology
ⓘ
legendary figure ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Culhwch and Olwen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pa gur yv y porthaur ⓘ Welsh Triads NERFINISHED ⓘ early Welsh Arthurian poetry ⓘ |
| associatedWith | King Arthur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
boastful
ⓘ
fierce ⓘ hot-tempered ⓘ |
| culture | Welsh ⓘ |
| family | son of Cynyr ⓘ |
| genre | Arthurian legend ⓘ |
| hasSupernaturalAbility |
ability to go without sleep for long periods in some tales
ⓘ
ability to grow as tall as the tallest tree in some tales ⓘ ability to hold his breath for nine days and nights in some tales ⓘ ability to radiate supernatural heat from his hands in some tales ⓘ |
| influenced | later continental Arthurian romances ⓘ |
| languageOfAttestation | Welsh ⓘ |
| literaryDevelopment | evolved into the later French and English figure of Sir Kay ⓘ |
| mythologicalContext | Matter of Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Cai
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cai fab Cynyr NERFINISHED ⓘ Kay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | both heroic and abrasive in early Welsh sources ⓘ |
| position | Arthur’s foremost warrior in some Welsh sources ⓘ |
| prototypeFor | Sir Kay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | foster brother of Arthur ⓘ |
| role |
Arthur’s foster brother
ⓘ
companion of King Arthur ⓘ warrior ⓘ |
| scholarlyTopic | Welsh Arthurian studies ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early medieval Welsh literature ⓘ |
| tradition | early Welsh Arthurian tradition ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Cei Description of subject: Cei is a figure from early Welsh Arthurian tradition who served as a prototype for the later literary character Sir Kay.
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