Sir Tristram
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Sir Tristram is a legendary knight of the Round Table in Arthurian romance, renowned for his prowess in battle and his tragic love affair with Iseult.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sir Tristram canonical | 2 |
| Tristran | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3258690 — 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: Sir Tristram Context triple: [Le Morte d'Arthur, mainCharacter, Sir Tristram]
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A.
Sir Yvain
Sir Yvain is a knight of Arthurian legend, best known as the hero of Chrétien de Troyes’ romance "Yvain, the Knight of the Lion," where he exemplifies chivalry, adventure, and a close bond with a loyal lion companion.
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B.
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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C.
Lancelot
Lancelot is the codename of Roxy Morton, a skilled Kingsman agent in the "Kingsman" film series.
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D.
Sir Bors
Sir Bors is a virtuous knight of Arthurian legend, renowned as one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail alongside Galahad and Percival.
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E.
Sir Galahad
Sir Galahad is a legendary knight of Arthurian romance renowned for his purity and for achieving the Holy Grail.
- 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: Sir Tristram Target entity description: Sir Tristram is a legendary knight of the Round Table in Arthurian romance, renowned for his prowess in battle and his tragic love affair with Iseult.
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A.
Sir Yvain
Sir Yvain is a knight of Arthurian legend, best known as the hero of Chrétien de Troyes’ romance "Yvain, the Knight of the Lion," where he exemplifies chivalry, adventure, and a close bond with a loyal lion companion.
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B.
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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C.
Lancelot
Lancelot is the codename of Roxy Morton, a skilled Kingsman agent in the "Kingsman" film series.
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D.
Sir Bors
Sir Bors is a virtuous knight of Arthurian legend, renowned as one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail alongside Galahad and Percival.
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E.
Sir Galahad
Sir Galahad is a legendary knight of Arthurian romance renowned for his purity and for achieving the Holy Grail.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arthurian character
ⓘ
Knight of the Round Table ⓘ fictional character ⓘ legendary knight ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan
ⓘ
linked to:
Sir Tristan
Le Morte d’Arthur ⓘ
linked to:
Le Morte d'Arthur
Post-Vulgate Cycle ⓘ
linked to:
Vulgate Cycle
Prose Tristan ⓘ Thomas of Britain’s Tristan ⓘ
linked to:
Sir Tristan
Tristan and Iseult legend ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Iseult
ⓘ
linked to:
Isolde
King Arthur ⓘ King Mark of Cornwall ⓘ
linked to:
King Marke
|
| authorAssociated |
Chrétien de Troyes (traditionally related cycle)
ⓘ
linked to:
Chrétien de Troyes
Gottfried von Strassburg ⓘ Sir Thomas Malory ⓘ
linked to:
Thomas Malory
Thomas of Britain ⓘ |
| culture | Arthurian legend ⓘ |
| death | dies from wounds after being separated from Iseult (in many versions) ⓘ |
| familyRelation | nephew of King Mark of Cornwall ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | mythical hero ⓘ |
| genre | Arthurian romance ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | medieval romance ⓘ |
| memberOf | Knights of the Round Table ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Drystan
ⓘ
Tristan ⓘ Tristram ⓘ Tristran ⓘ
linked to:
Sir Tristram
|
| notableEvent |
drinks love potion with Iseult
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joins King Arthur’s court ⓘ serves King Mark of Cornwall ⓘ slays the Irish champion Morholt ⓘ travels to Ireland to be healed ⓘ |
| notableFor |
prowess in battle
ⓘ
tragic love affair with Iseult ⓘ |
| origin | Cornwall ⓘ |
| rank | knight ⓘ |
| romanticPartner |
Iseult
ⓘ
linked to:
Isolde
|
| skill |
accomplished harpist
ⓘ
great warrior ⓘ skilled hunter ⓘ |
| spouse | Iseult of the White Hands ⓘ |
| theme |
adultery
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courtly love ⓘ loyalty and betrayal ⓘ tragic love ⓘ |
| timePeriod | medieval literature ⓘ |
| weapon | sword ⓘ |
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: Sir Tristram Description of subject: Sir Tristram is a legendary knight of the Round Table in Arthurian romance, renowned for his prowess in battle and his tragic love affair with Iseult.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sir Tristram