Igraine
E198031
Igraine is a noblewoman of Arthurian legend best known as the wife of Uther Pendragon and the mother of King Arthur.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1747301 — 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: Igraine Context triple: [King Arthur, mother, Igraine]
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A.
Morgan le Fay
Morgan le Fay is a powerful enchantress of Arthurian legend, often depicted as King Arthur’s half-sister and a complex figure who alternates between adversary and ally to the knights of the Round Table.
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B.
Queen Guinevere
Queen Guinevere is the legendary queen consort of King Arthur, renowned in Arthurian literature for her beauty, nobility, and central role in the courtly and romantic intrigues of Camelot.
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C.
Meñli I Giray
Meñli I Giray was a prominent 15th–16th century Crimean khan who consolidated the Crimean Khanate’s power and forged a crucial alliance with the Ottoman Empire.
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D.
Malvina Stone Arthur
Malvina Stone Arthur was the mother of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur and a New England woman of Scottish descent whose family background influenced his early life.
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E.
Ermintrude
Ermintrude is a Germanic female given name of Old High German origin, historically meaning “whole” or “universal strength.”
- 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: Igraine Target entity description: Igraine is a noblewoman of Arthurian legend best known as the wife of Uther Pendragon and the mother of King Arthur.
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A.
Morgan le Fay
Morgan le Fay is a powerful enchantress of Arthurian legend, often depicted as King Arthur’s half-sister and a complex figure who alternates between adversary and ally to the knights of the Round Table.
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B.
Queen Guinevere
Queen Guinevere is the legendary queen consort of King Arthur, renowned in Arthurian literature for her beauty, nobility, and central role in the courtly and romantic intrigues of Camelot.
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C.
Meñli I Giray
Meñli I Giray was a prominent 15th–16th century Crimean khan who consolidated the Crimean Khanate’s power and forged a crucial alliance with the Ottoman Empire.
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D.
Malvina Stone Arthur
Malvina Stone Arthur was the mother of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur and a New England woman of Scottish descent whose family background influenced his early life.
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E.
Ermintrude
Ermintrude is a Germanic female given name of Old High German origin, historically meaning “whole” or “universal strength.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arthurian character
ⓘ
legendary character ⓘ noblewoman ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Arthurian legend
ⓘ
Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae ⓘ
linked to:
Historia Regum Britanniae
Matter of Britain ⓘ Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur ⓘ
linked to:
Le Morte d'Arthur
|
| associatedWith |
Knights of the Round Table cycle
ⓘ
linked to:
Arthurian legend
|
| associatedWithPlace |
Cornwall
ⓘ
Tintagel Castle ⓘ |
| category |
Arthurian women
ⓘ
Legendary British people ⓘ Mythological queens ⓘ |
| culture | British ⓘ |
| familyRole | mother of Arthurian half-siblings ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | mythical ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
Igerna
ⓘ
Ygerna ⓘ Ygraine ⓘ
linked to:
Igraine
|
| hasHusband |
Gorlois
ⓘ
linked to:
Gorlois of Cornwall
|
| languageOfSources |
Latin
ⓘ
Middle English ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Elaine of Garlot
ⓘ
King Arthur ⓘ Morgan le Fay ⓘ Morgause ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | progenitor of the Arthurian royal line ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of King Arthur
ⓘ
being the wife of Gorlois ⓘ being the wife of Uther Pendragon ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Elaine of Garlot
ⓘ
Gorlois ⓘ
linked to:
Gorlois of Cornwall
Morgan le Fay ⓘ Morgause ⓘ Uther Pendragon ⓘ |
| spouse | Uther Pendragon ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfLegend | sub-Roman Britain ⓘ |
| title | Duchess of Cornwall ⓘ |
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: Igraine Description of subject: Igraine is a noblewoman of Arthurian legend best known as the wife of Uther Pendragon and the mother of King Arthur.
Referenced by (9)
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