Freawaru
E493757
Freawaru is a Danish princess from the Old English epic "Beowulf," known as King Hrothgar’s daughter who is married off to help secure peace between feuding tribes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Freawaru canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5094074 — 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: Freawaru Context triple: [Hrothgar, hasChild, Freawaru]
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A.
Freyja
Freyja is a major Norse goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, magic, and war, often depicted as a powerful and independent figure who rides a chariot drawn by cats.
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B.
Frigg
Frigg is the Norse goddess of marriage, motherhood, and foreknowledge, and the wife of the chief god Odin.
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C.
Astarte
Astarte is an ancient Near Eastern goddess associated primarily with fertility, sexuality, and war, venerated across Canaanite, Phoenician, and later Mediterranean cultures.
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D.
Ninlil
Ninlil is a Mesopotamian goddess, traditionally known as the wife of the god Enlil and associated with air, grain, and the city of Nippur.
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E.
Nanna
Nanna is the Sumerian moon god, a major deity associated with wisdom, fertility, and the measurement of time.
- 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: Freawaru Target entity description: Freawaru is a Danish princess from the Old English epic "Beowulf," known as King Hrothgar’s daughter who is married off to help secure peace between feuding tribes.
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A.
Freyja
Freyja is a major Norse goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, magic, and war, often depicted as a powerful and independent figure who rides a chariot drawn by cats.
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B.
Frigg
Frigg is the Norse goddess of marriage, motherhood, and foreknowledge, and the wife of the chief god Odin.
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C.
Astarte
Astarte is an ancient Near Eastern goddess associated primarily with fertility, sexuality, and war, venerated across Canaanite, Phoenician, and later Mediterranean cultures.
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D.
Ninlil
Ninlil is a Mesopotamian goddess, traditionally known as the wife of the god Enlil and associated with air, grain, and the city of Nippur.
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E.
Nanna
Nanna is the Sumerian moon god, a major deity associated with wisdom, fertility, and the measurement of time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Danish princess
ⓘ
fictional person ⓘ literary character ⓘ princess ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Beowulf ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | Old English ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
feud settlement
ⓘ
fragility of peace ⓘ marriage diplomacy ⓘ |
| betrothedTo | Ingeld ⓘ |
| childOf |
Hrothgar
ⓘ
Wealhtheow ⓘ |
| createdBy | anonymous Old English poet of Beowulf ⓘ |
| culture | Germanic heroic tradition ⓘ |
| describedAs | Hrothgar’s daughter ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Dane ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasFather | Hrothgar ⓘ |
| hasMother | Wealhtheow ⓘ |
| involvedInConflict | Dane–Heathobard feud ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Old English ⓘ |
| literaryRoleType | secondary character ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Anglo-Saxon literature ⓘ |
| marriagePurpose | to reconcile Danes and Heathobards ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Ingeld ⓘ |
| mentionedBy | Beowulf (character) ⓘ |
| mentionedInSection | Beowulf, lines 2020–2069 (approximate) ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | marriage alliance to secure peace ⓘ |
| nationality | Danish ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Hrethric
ⓘ
Hrothmund ⓘ Hrothulf ⓘ
linked to:
Hrodulf
|
| roleInNarrative | peace-weaver ⓘ |
| setIn | Scandinavia ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | legendary Migration Age Scandinavia ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
attempted reconciliation between enemy tribes
ⓘ
political marriage ⓘ |
| title | Princess of the Danes ⓘ |
| workGenre | epic poetry ⓘ |
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: Freawaru Description of subject: Freawaru is a Danish princess from the Old English epic "Beowulf," known as King Hrothgar’s daughter who is married off to help secure peace between feuding tribes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.