Mordred
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Mordred is a treacherous knight of Arthurian legend, best known for betraying King Arthur and fatally wounding him at the Battle of Camlann.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mordred canonical | 41 |
| Sir Mordred | 6 |
| Sir Modred | 2 |
| Mordred of Arthurian legend | 1 |
| Mordredus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1747308 — 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: Mordred Context triple: [King Arthur, child, Mordred]
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A.
Uther Pendragon
Uther Pendragon is a legendary British king from Arthurian mythology, best known as the father of King Arthur and a central figure in the tales surrounding Camelot’s origins.
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B.
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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C.
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.
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D.
Sir Gaerfyrddin
Sir Gaerfyrddin is the Welsh-language name for Carmarthenshire, a historic county in southwest Wales.
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E.
Gawain
Gawain is a legendary knight of King Arthur’s Round Table in Arthurian literature, renowned for his chivalry and central role in tales such as "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
- 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: Mordred Target entity description: Mordred is a treacherous knight of Arthurian legend, best known for betraying King Arthur and fatally wounding him at the Battle of Camlann.
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A.
Uther Pendragon
Uther Pendragon is a legendary British king from Arthurian mythology, best known as the father of King Arthur and a central figure in the tales surrounding Camelot’s origins.
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B.
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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C.
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.
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D.
Sir Gaerfyrddin
Sir Gaerfyrddin is the Welsh-language name for Carmarthenshire, a historic county in southwest Wales.
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E.
Gawain
Gawain is a legendary knight of King Arthur’s Round Table in Arthurian literature, renowned for his chivalry and central role in tales such as "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arthurian character
ⓘ
fictional knight ⓘ legendary figure ⓘ mythological character ⓘ |
| alignment | traitor ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium |
film
ⓘ
literature ⓘ television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| appearsInTradition | Arthurian legend ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Alliterative Morte Arthure
ⓘ
Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae ⓘ
linked to:
Historia Regum Britanniae
Le Morte d’Arthur ⓘ
linked to:
Le Morte d'Arthur
Post-Vulgate Cycle ⓘ
linked to:
Vulgate Cycle
Stanzaic Morte Arthur ⓘ Vulgate Cycle ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Battle of Camlann ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation |
Camelot
ⓘ
linked to:
King Arthur's court
|
| associatedWithTheme |
betrayal
ⓘ
civil war ⓘ downfall of Camelot ⓘ |
| attempts | to seize the throne of Camelot ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin | British legend ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Camlann
ⓘ
linked to:
Battle of Camlann
|
| enemyOf | King Arthur ⓘ |
| genre | medieval romance character ⓘ |
| influenced | later depictions of traitor knights in literature ⓘ |
| killedBy | King Arthur ⓘ |
| kills | King Arthur ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Middle Welsh tradition ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Knights of the Round Table
ⓘ
linked to:
King Arthur's court
|
| motherInManyVersions | Morgause ⓘ |
| motherInSomeVersions | Morgan le Fay ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Medraut
ⓘ
Modred ⓘ Mordredus ⓘ
linked to:
Mordred
|
| notableFor |
betraying King Arthur
ⓘ
fatally wounding King Arthur ⓘ fighting King Arthur at the Battle of Camlann ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
illegitimate son of King Arthur in later romances
ⓘ
nephew of King Arthur in earlier traditions ⓘ usurper of Arthur’s throne ⓘ |
| relativeOf | King Arthur ⓘ |
| role | treacherous knight ⓘ |
| siblingOf |
Agravain
ⓘ
Gaheris ⓘ Gareth ⓘ
linked to:
Sir Gareth
Gawain ⓘ |
| spouseInSomeVersions |
Guinevere
ⓘ
linked to:
Queen Guinevere
|
| symbolizes | the destruction of Arthur’s kingdom ⓘ |
| weaponUsed |
spear
ⓘ
sword ⓘ |
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: Mordred Description of subject: Mordred is a treacherous knight of Arthurian legend, best known for betraying King Arthur and fatally wounding him at the Battle of Camlann.
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mordred
linked to: Mordred
linked to: Mordred
subject linked to:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "Guinevere"
linked to: Mordred
linked to: Mordred
linked to: Mordred
linked to: Mordred
subject linked to:
Camlann (Welsh: Camlan)
linked to: Mordred
linked to: Mordred