Fergus Mór
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Fergus Mór was a legendary early medieval king traditionally credited with founding the Scottish kingdom of Dál Riata and helping establish the Gaelic presence in western Scotland.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fergus I of Scotland (legendary king) | 1 |
| Fergus Mór canonical | 1 |
| Fergus Mór mac Eirc | 1 |
| Fergus the Great | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6741416 — 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: Fergus Mór Context triple: [Dál Riata, notableRuler, Fergus Mór]
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A.
King Fergus
King Fergus is the boisterous, one-legged Scottish king and devoted father from Disney-Pixar's animated film "Brave."
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B.
Mac Cuinn
Mac Cuinn is an Irish Gaelic surname from which the Anglicised form "Quinn" is derived.
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C.
Fergus
Fergus is a fictional character from the game "Wild Target," likely serving as a notable figure within its story or gameplay.
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D.
Fergus
Fergus is the conflicted Irish Republican Army volunteer who serves as the central protagonist in the 1992 psychological thriller film "The Crying Game."
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E.
Fergus
Fergus is a historic small town in southwestern Ontario, Canada, known for its Scottish heritage and annual Scottish Festival and Highland Games.
- 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: Fergus Mór Target entity description: Fergus Mór was a legendary early medieval king traditionally credited with founding the Scottish kingdom of Dál Riata and helping establish the Gaelic presence in western Scotland.
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A.
King Fergus
King Fergus is the boisterous, one-legged Scottish king and devoted father from Disney-Pixar's animated film "Brave."
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B.
Mac Cuinn
Mac Cuinn is an Irish Gaelic surname from which the Anglicised form "Quinn" is derived.
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C.
Fergus
Fergus is a fictional character from the game "Wild Target," likely serving as a notable figure within its story or gameplay.
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D.
Fergus
Fergus is the conflicted Irish Republican Army volunteer who serves as the central protagonist in the 1992 psychological thriller film "The Crying Game."
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E.
Fergus
Fergus is a historic small town in southwestern Ontario, Canada, known for its Scottish heritage and annual Scottish Festival and Highland Games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
early medieval ruler
ⓘ
figure of Gaelic tradition ⓘ figure of Scottish legend ⓘ legendary king ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Fergus Mór mac Eirc
ⓘ
linked to:
Fergus Mór
Fergus the Great ⓘ
linked to:
Fergus Mór
|
| associatedWith |
Argyll
ⓘ
Dál Riata ⓘ Gaels ⓘ western Scotland ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn |
Gaelic legendary history
ⓘ
Scottish historical tradition ⓘ |
| culture | Gaelic ⓘ |
| describedAs | legendary rather than fully historical ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Gaelic ⓘ |
| historicity | uncertain ⓘ |
| influenced |
later narratives of Scottish state formation
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medieval Scottish royal origin myths ⓘ |
| language | Old Irish (Gaelic) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an origin figure for the Scottish kingdom in later tradition
ⓘ
linking Irish and Scottish Gaels in medieval genealogies ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Argyll and nearby areas (traditional attribution)
ⓘ
parts of western Scotland ⓘ |
| role |
ancestral king in Scottish origin traditions
ⓘ
founder-figure of Scottish Dál Riata ⓘ |
| sourceType | medieval chronicles and genealogical traditions ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early Middle Ages ⓘ |
| traditionallyCreditedWith |
founding the Scottish kingdom of Dál Riata
ⓘ
helping establish the Gaelic presence in western Scotland ⓘ |
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: Fergus Mór Description of subject: Fergus Mór was a legendary early medieval king traditionally credited with founding the Scottish kingdom of Dál Riata and helping establish the Gaelic presence in western Scotland.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Fergus Mór
linked to: Fergus Mór
linked to: Fergus Mór