Modern Irish
E6804
Modern Irish is the contemporary Goidelic Celtic language spoken primarily in Ireland, descended from earlier stages such as Old and Middle Irish.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modern Irish canonical | 4 |
| Modern Standard Irish | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T64700 — 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: Modern Irish Context triple: [Old Irish, ancestorOf, Modern Irish]
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A.
Irish English
Irish English is the set of distinctive varieties of the English language spoken in Ireland, characterized by unique pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammatical features influenced by Irish (Gaeilge) and the country’s history.
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B.
Old Irish
Old Irish is the earliest recorded form of the Goidelic Celtic languages, historically spoken in Ireland and parts of Scotland between roughly the 6th and 10th centuries.
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C.
Primitive Irish
Primitive Irish is the earliest attested form of the Irish language, known primarily from Ogham inscriptions dating from the early centuries CE.
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D.
Irish American
Irish Americans are U.S. residents of Irish ancestry, known for their significant cultural, political, and historical influence in the United States.
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E.
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic is a Celtic language native to Scotland, historically spoken in the Highlands and Islands and closely related to Irish and Manx.
- 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: Modern Irish Target entity description: Modern Irish is the contemporary Goidelic Celtic language spoken primarily in Ireland, descended from earlier stages such as Old and Middle Irish.
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A.
Irish English
Irish English is the set of distinctive varieties of the English language spoken in Ireland, characterized by unique pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammatical features influenced by Irish (Gaeilge) and the country’s history.
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B.
Old Irish
Old Irish is the earliest recorded form of the Goidelic Celtic languages, historically spoken in Ireland and parts of Scotland between roughly the 6th and 10th centuries.
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C.
Primitive Irish
Primitive Irish is the earliest attested form of the Irish language, known primarily from Ogham inscriptions dating from the early centuries CE.
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D.
Irish American
Irish Americans are U.S. residents of Irish ancestry, known for their significant cultural, political, and historical influence in the United States.
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E.
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic is a Celtic language native to Scotland, historically spoken in the Highlands and Islands and closely related to Irish and Manx.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Celtic language
ⓘ
Goidelic language ⓘ Indo-European language ⓘ standardized language ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Early Modern Irish ⓘ |
| follows | Early Modern Irish ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Gaeilge
ⓘ
linked to:
Irish language
Irish ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Connacht Irish
ⓘ
linked to:
Irish language
Munster Irish ⓘ
linked to:
Irish language
Ulster Irish ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
VSO word order
ⓘ
case system ⓘ grammatical gender ⓘ inflected prepositions ⓘ synthetic verb forms ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ Latin ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | initial consonant mutation ⓘ |
| hasPredecessor |
Middle Irish
ⓘ
Old Irish ⓘ |
| hasStandardForm | An Caighdeán Oifigiúil ⓘ |
| iso639-1Code | ga ⓘ |
| iso639-2Code | gle ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | gle ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Celtic languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Indo-European languages ⓘ |
| languageSubbranch | Goidelic languages ⓘ |
| officialStatus |
first official language of Ireland
ⓘ
official language of the European Union ⓘ recognized minority language in Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| partOf | Goidelic branch of Celtic languages ⓘ |
| primaryCountry | Ireland ⓘ |
| regulatingBody | Foras na Gaeilge ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Gaeltacht regions of Ireland
ⓘ
Irish diaspora communities ⓘ Northern Ireland ⓘ Republic of Ireland ⓘ
linked to:
Ireland
|
| subclassOf | Irish language ⓘ |
| taughtAs | school subject in Ireland ⓘ |
| timePeriod | from late 17th century to present ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Irish-language media
ⓘ
education in Irish-medium schools ⓘ literature ⓘ official government documents in Ireland ⓘ religious services ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
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: Modern Irish Description of subject: Modern Irish is the contemporary Goidelic Celtic language spoken primarily in Ireland, descended from earlier stages such as Old and Middle Irish.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Modern Irish