Áed Find
E175947
Áed Find was a king of Dál Riata in the 8th century, remembered in later tradition as an important ancestor of the Scottish royal line.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Áed Find canonical | 6 |
| Áed mac Echdach | 1 |
| Áed the White | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1553773 — 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: Áed Find Context triple: [Kenneth MacAlpin, father, Áed Find]
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A.
Roderic O'Conor
Roderic O'Conor was an Irish post-impressionist painter known for his bold use of color and texture and his association with avant-garde artists in late 19th-century France.
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B.
Saint Drostan
Saint Drostan was an early Scottish saint and missionary associated with the Christianization of northeastern Scotland and the founding of several churches and monasteries.
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C.
Conachair
Conachair is a prominent sea cliff and the highest peak on the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda, known for its dramatic Atlantic-facing precipices.
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D.
Donnchad V, Earl of Fife
Donnchad V, Earl of Fife, was a medieval Scottish nobleman from the influential MacDuff family who held one of the kingdom’s most prestigious earldoms and played a key role in the politics of his time.
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E.
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife, was a prominent 12th-century Scottish nobleman and mormaer of Fife who played a key role in the early medieval Kingdom of Scotland.
- 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: Áed Find Target entity description: Áed Find was a king of Dál Riata in the 8th century, remembered in later tradition as an important ancestor of the Scottish royal line.
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A.
Roderic O'Conor
Roderic O'Conor was an Irish post-impressionist painter known for his bold use of color and texture and his association with avant-garde artists in late 19th-century France.
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B.
Saint Drostan
Saint Drostan was an early Scottish saint and missionary associated with the Christianization of northeastern Scotland and the founding of several churches and monasteries.
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C.
Conachair
Conachair is a prominent sea cliff and the highest peak on the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda, known for its dramatic Atlantic-facing precipices.
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D.
Donnchad V, Earl of Fife
Donnchad V, Earl of Fife, was a medieval Scottish nobleman from the influential MacDuff family who held one of the kingdom’s most prestigious earldoms and played a key role in the politics of his time.
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E.
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife, was a prominent 12th-century Scottish nobleman and mormaer of Fife who played a key role in the early medieval Kingdom of Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
king ⓘ medieval monarch ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Cenél nGabráin
ⓘ
Scottish royal dynasty ⓘ
linked to:
Scottish royal family
early medieval Scotland ⓘ |
| country | Dál Riata ⓘ |
| culture | Gaelic ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
later genealogical tradition
ⓘ
medieval Scottish king-lists ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Gael
ⓘ
linked to:
Gaels
|
| father | Echdach ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | semi-legendary ancestor of Scottish kings ⓘ |
| language | Old Irish ⓘ |
| name |
Áed Find
ⓘ
Áed mac Echdach ⓘ
linked to:
Áed Find
Áed the White ⓘ
linked to:
Áed Find
|
| notableFor |
being a king of Dál Riata in the 8th century
ⓘ
being remembered as an important ancestor of the Scottish royal line ⓘ |
| partOf | Scottish royal genealogy ⓘ |
| positionHeld | King of Dál Riata ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Eochaid mac Echdach
ⓘ
linked to:
Eochaid of Scotland
|
| realmType | Gaelic overkingdom ⓘ |
| region | Argyll ⓘ |
| reignOver | Dál Riata ⓘ |
| relative | Echdach ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| successor | Fergus mac Echdach ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 8th century ⓘ |
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: Áed Find Description of subject: Áed Find was a king of Dál Riata in the 8th century, remembered in later tradition as an important ancestor of the Scottish royal line.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.