Cellach mac Fáelchair
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Cellach mac Fáelchair was an early medieval Irish king of Osraige, known from the annals as a regional ruler during the period of dynastic conflict in southeastern Ireland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cellach mac Fáelchair canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9448951 — 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: Cellach mac Fáelchair Context triple: [Kings of Osraige, hasNotableMember, Cellach mac Fáelchair]
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A.
Cellach mac Rogallaig
Cellach mac Rogallaig was an early medieval Irish king of Connacht from the Uí Fiachrach dynasty, noted in the annals as a significant regional ruler.
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B.
Cellach mac Cerbaill
Cellach mac Cerbaill was a medieval Irish king of Osraige known from early Irish annals as a significant regional ruler in what is now southeastern Ireland.
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C.
Eóganacht Glendamnach
Eóganacht Glendamnach was a prominent early medieval Irish royal lineage within the Eóganachta dynasty, associated with kingship in Munster.
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D.
Flann Sinna
Flann Sinna was a 9th–10th century High King of Ireland from the Uí Néill dynasty, known for consolidating power and influencing the island’s early medieval politics.
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E.
Eóganán mac Óengusa
Eóganán mac Óengusa was a 9th-century king of the Picts who ruled in what is now Scotland shortly before the rise of Kenneth MacAlpin and the formation of the Kingdom of Alba.
- 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: Cellach mac Fáelchair Target entity description: Cellach mac Fáelchair was an early medieval Irish king of Osraige, known from the annals as a regional ruler during the period of dynastic conflict in southeastern Ireland.
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A.
Cellach mac Rogallaig
Cellach mac Rogallaig was an early medieval Irish king of Connacht from the Uí Fiachrach dynasty, noted in the annals as a significant regional ruler.
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B.
Cellach mac Cerbaill
Cellach mac Cerbaill was a medieval Irish king of Osraige known from early Irish annals as a significant regional ruler in what is now southeastern Ireland.
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C.
Eóganacht Glendamnach
Eóganacht Glendamnach was a prominent early medieval Irish royal lineage within the Eóganachta dynasty, associated with kingship in Munster.
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D.
Flann Sinna
Flann Sinna was a 9th–10th century High King of Ireland from the Uí Néill dynasty, known for consolidating power and influencing the island’s early medieval politics.
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E.
Eóganán mac Óengusa
Eóganán mac Óengusa was a 9th-century king of the Picts who ruled in what is now Scotland shortly before the rise of Kenneth MacAlpin and the formation of the Kingdom of Alba.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
early medieval Irish ruler
ⓘ
human ⓘ king ⓘ |
| category |
8th-century Irish monarchs
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Kings of Osraige NERFINISHED ⓘ Medieval Gaels from Ireland ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | battle of Belach Éile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Battle of Belach Éile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| culture | Gaelic ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 735 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish ⓘ |
| father | Fáelchar ua Máele Ódrain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | medieval Irish history ⓘ |
| givenName | Cellach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitle | King of Osraige ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Kingdom of Osraige NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Irish ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod |
8th century
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early Middle Ages ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in battle ⓘ |
| memberOf | Dál Birn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Annals of Tigernach
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Annals of Ulster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | rule of Osraige during dynastic conflicts in southeastern Ireland ⓘ |
| occupation | ruler ⓘ |
| opponent |
Cathal mac Finguine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Munster forces ⓘ |
| participantIn | Battle of Belach Éile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Dál Birn dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| patronymicName | mac Fáelchair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Belach Éile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | King of Osraige NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Fáelchar ua Máele Ódrain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| realmWithin | province of Leinster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | southeastern Ireland ⓘ |
| relative | Fáelchar ua Máele Ódrain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Osraige NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Anmchad mac Con Cherca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| territoryRuled |
Osraige
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Osraige (kingdom) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Cellach mac Fáelchair Description of subject: Cellach mac Fáelchair was an early medieval Irish king of Osraige, known from the annals as a regional ruler during the period of dynastic conflict in southeastern Ireland.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.