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.

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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.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sir Kay basedOn Cei
Sir Kay nameInWelsh Cei
Bedwyr allyOf Cei
Bedwyr hasCompanion Cei