Saint Fillan
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Saint Fillan was a medieval Scottish saint and missionary, venerated especially in the Highlands for his piety, miracles, and enduring local cult.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Saint Fillan canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2233132 — 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: Saint Fillan Context triple: [St Fillan’s Cave, associatedWith, Saint Fillan]
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A.
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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B.
Saint Mungo
Saint Mungo, also known as Saint Kentigern, is the 6th-century Christian missionary and patron saint of Glasgow, celebrated for founding the city and performing numerous miracles.
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C.
Saint Curig
Saint Curig is a medieval Welsh saint, traditionally regarded as a missionary or church founder in Wales and remembered as the patron of several churches and localities.
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D.
Cuilén of Scotland
Cuilén of Scotland was a 10th-century King of Alba from the House of Alpin, whose short and turbulent reign ended with his death in battle around 971.
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E.
Eochaid of Scotland
Eochaid of Scotland was a late 9th-century king traditionally associated with the House of Alpin, whose brief and disputed reign forms part of the early medieval history of the Scottish monarchy.
- 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: Saint Fillan Target entity description: Saint Fillan was a medieval Scottish saint and missionary, venerated especially in the Highlands for his piety, miracles, and enduring local cult.
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A.
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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B.
Saint Mungo
Saint Mungo, also known as Saint Kentigern, is the 6th-century Christian missionary and patron saint of Glasgow, celebrated for founding the city and performing numerous miracles.
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C.
Saint Curig
Saint Curig is a medieval Welsh saint, traditionally regarded as a missionary or church founder in Wales and remembered as the patron of several churches and localities.
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D.
Cuilén of Scotland
Cuilén of Scotland was a 10th-century King of Alba from the House of Alpin, whose short and turbulent reign ended with his death in battle around 971.
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E.
Eochaid of Scotland
Eochaid of Scotland was a late 9th-century king traditionally associated with the House of Alpin, whose brief and disputed reign forms part of the early medieval history of the Scottish monarchy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian saint
ⓘ
medieval Scottish saint ⓘ missionary ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Battle of Bannockburn ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
St Fillan’s Cave, Pittenweem
ⓘ
linked to:
St Fillan’s Cave
St Fillan’s Pool, Strathfillan ⓘ St Fillan’s Priory, Strathfillan ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 8th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| discipleOf | Saint Columba ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Gaels ⓘ |
| father | Feradach ⓘ |
| feastDay |
January 19
ⓘ
January 9 ⓘ |
| founded | monastery at Strathfillan ⓘ |
| hasCultCenter |
Glendochart
ⓘ
Killin ⓘ Strathfillan ⓘ |
| hasLegacy |
Strathfillan Hospital named for him
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multiple churches in Scotland dedicated to him ⓘ parish of Killin named for him ⓘ |
| hasLegend |
arm relic carried in a reliquary at the Battle of Bannockburn
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arm shone with light to aid his writing of Scripture ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Saint ⓘ |
| miracle |
curing mental illness
ⓘ
healing of the sick ⓘ miraculous light from his arm while writing ⓘ |
| mother | Saint Kentigerna ⓘ |
| notableFor |
local cult in the Scottish Highlands
ⓘ
miracles ⓘ piety ⓘ |
| occupation |
missionary
ⓘ
monk ⓘ |
| patronage |
Stirlingshire
ⓘ
insanity ⓘ mental illness ⓘ the mentally ill ⓘ wolves ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ireland ⓘ |
| relic |
arm-bone of Saint Fillan
ⓘ
bell of Saint Fillan ⓘ quern-stones of Saint Fillan ⓘ staff of Saint Fillan ⓘ |
| relicVeneratedAt |
Killin
ⓘ
Strathfillan ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Glendochart
ⓘ
Perthshire ⓘ
linked to:
Perth and Kinross
Strathfillan ⓘ |
| veneratedBy | Robert the Bruce ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Anglican Communion
ⓘ
Eastern Orthodox Church ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Roman Catholic Church ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
Scotland ⓘ Scottish Highlands ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Saint Fillan Description of subject: Saint Fillan was a medieval Scottish saint and missionary, venerated especially in the Highlands for his piety, miracles, and enduring local cult.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.