Erec
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Erec is a knight of King Arthur’s court and the chivalric hero of Chrétien de Troyes’ romance "Erec and Enide," known for his adventures testing love, honor, and knighthood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Erec canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8897660 — 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: Erec Context triple: [Chrétien de Troyes' Arthurian romances, mainCharacter, Erec]
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A.
Gauvain
Gauvain is a noble and idealistic young revolutionary who serves as one of the central figures in Victor Hugo’s novel "Quatrevingt-treize," embodying the moral and political conflicts of the French Revolution.
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B.
Lancelot
Lancelot is the codename of Roxy Morton, a skilled Kingsman agent in the "Kingsman" film series.
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C.
Perceval
Perceval is a surname most notably associated with Spencer Perceval, the only British prime minister to have been assassinated while in office.
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D.
Perceval
Perceval is a legendary knight of Arthurian romance best known for his quest for the Holy Grail and his role in medieval French and Welsh tales.
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E.
Sir Lancelot
Sir Lancelot is one of the most famous Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, renowned for his unmatched prowess in battle and his tragic love affair with Queen Guinevere.
- 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: Erec Target entity description: Erec is a knight of King Arthur’s court and the chivalric hero of Chrétien de Troyes’ romance "Erec and Enide," known for his adventures testing love, honor, and knighthood.
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A.
Gauvain
Gauvain is a noble and idealistic young revolutionary who serves as one of the central figures in Victor Hugo’s novel "Quatrevingt-treize," embodying the moral and political conflicts of the French Revolution.
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B.
Lancelot
Lancelot is the codename of Roxy Morton, a skilled Kingsman agent in the "Kingsman" film series.
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C.
Perceval
Perceval is a surname most notably associated with Spencer Perceval, the only British prime minister to have been assassinated while in office.
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D.
Perceval
Perceval is a legendary knight of Arthurian romance best known for his quest for the Holy Grail and his role in medieval French and Welsh tales.
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E.
Sir Lancelot
Sir Lancelot is one of the most famous Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, renowned for his unmatched prowess in battle and his tragic love affair with Queen Guinevere.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arthurian knight
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Erec and Enide
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Erec et Enide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Enide
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guinevere NERFINISHED ⓘ King Arthur NERFINISHED ⓘ Round Table NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| createdBy | Chrétien de Troyes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Matter of Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form | verse narrative ⓘ |
| genre |
Arthurian romance
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chivalric romance ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Erec (Hartmann von Aue) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitleRoleIn | Erec and Enide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heroType | courtly knight ⓘ |
| influenced |
Middle High German romance "Erec" by Hartmann von Aue
NERFINISHED
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later Arthurian romance tradition ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Old French ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 12th century literature ⓘ |
| medium | medieval romance ⓘ |
| memberOf | King Arthur's court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| moralDimension |
tests of courage
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tests of loyalty ⓘ tests of perseverance ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
exemplifies ideal knightly behavior
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explores balance between love and knightly duty ⓘ |
| notableFor |
marital fidelity trials
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quest adventures ⓘ testing love, honor, and knighthood ⓘ |
| occupation | knight ⓘ |
| partner | Enide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Arthurian legend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves | King Arthur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Camelot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Enide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
chivalric code
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courtly love ⓘ honor ⓘ marriage ⓘ reputation ⓘ |
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: Erec Description of subject: Erec is a knight of King Arthur’s court and the chivalric hero of Chrétien de Troyes’ romance "Erec and Enide," known for his adventures testing love, honor, and knighthood.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.