Ailill mac Máta

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character in the Ulster Cycle figure in Irish mythology legendary king mythological character

Ailill mac Máta is a legendary king of Connacht in early Irish mythology, best known as the husband of Queen Medb in the Ulster Cycle tales.

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Label Occurrences
Ailill mac Máta canonical 1

Statements (34)

Predicate Object
instanceOf character in the Ulster Cycle ⓘ
figure in Irish mythology ⓘ
legendary king ⓘ
mythological character ⓘ
appearsIn Táin Bó Cúailnge NERFINISHED ⓘ
Ulster Cycle tales NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedGenre heroic saga ⓘ
associatedMotif kingship in Connacht ⓘ
marital rivalry and equality ⓘ
associatedWith Connacht NERFINISHED ⓘ
Queen Medb NERFINISHED ⓘ
Ulster Cycle NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWithTribeOrPeople Connachta NERFINISHED ⓘ
culture early Irish ⓘ
fictionalStatus legendary ⓘ
gender male ⓘ
hasSpouseRole consort of a warrior-queen ⓘ
kingdomRuled Connacht NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageOfTradition Old Irish ⓘ
literaryTradition Irish saga literature ⓘ
mythologicalPeriod Ulster Cycle era NERFINISHED ⓘ
nameVariant Ailill mac Máta of Connacht NERFINISHED ⓘ
narrativeFunction political counterpart to Medb ⓘ
royal consort ⓘ
notableFor marriage to Queen Medb ⓘ
role in the cattle raid of Cooley ⓘ
recordedIn medieval Irish literary tradition ⓘ
regionInMyth western Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ
religiousContext pre-Christian Irish mythology ⓘ
roleInTales co-ruler of Connacht with Medb ⓘ
husband of Medb ⓘ
sourceType medieval Irish manuscripts ⓘ
spouse Medb NERFINISHED ⓘ
title King of Connacht ⓘ

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: Ailill mac Máta
Description of subject: Ailill mac Máta is a legendary king of Connacht in early Irish mythology, best known as the husband of Queen Medb in the Ulster Cycle tales.

Referenced by (1)

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

Cruachan → associatedWithDeityOrFigure → Ailill mac Máta ⓘ