Áed mac Cináeda
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Áed mac Cináeda was a 9th-century King of the Picts (often styled King of Scots), son of Kenneth MacAlpin, who ruled briefly after Constantine I before being killed in a revolt.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Áed mac Cináeda canonical | 12 |
| Áed mac Alpín | 2 |
| Áed mac Cináeda as ruler of the Picts/Scots | 1 |
| Áed of Scotland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7889912 — 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: Áed mac Cináeda Context triple: [Constantine I of Scotland, successor, Áed mac Cináeda]
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A.
Causantín mac Cináeda
Causantín mac Cináeda was a 9th-century king of the Picts and early ruler of what became Scotland, noted for his role in the consolidation of the Scottish kingdom.
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B.
Causantín mac Fergusa
Causantín mac Fergusa was an early 9th-century king of the Picts whose reign marked a significant stage in the formation of the medieval kingdom that would become Scotland.
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C.
Áed Find
Áed Find was a king of Dál Riata in the 8th century, remembered in later tradition as an important ancestor of the Scottish royal line.
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D.
Áedán mac Gabráin
Áedán mac Gabráin was a late 6th- to early 7th-century king of Dál Riata, known for his military campaigns in Ireland and Britain and for being one of the first Scottish rulers recorded in contemporary sources.
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E.
Ailpín mac Echdach
Ailpín mac Echdach was a 9th-century Scottish noble traditionally regarded as the father of Kenneth MacAlpin, the first king to unite the Picts and Scots.
- 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: Áed mac Cináeda Target entity description: Áed mac Cináeda was a 9th-century King of the Picts (often styled King of Scots), son of Kenneth MacAlpin, who ruled briefly after Constantine I before being killed in a revolt.
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A.
Causantín mac Cináeda
Causantín mac Cináeda was a 9th-century king of the Picts and early ruler of what became Scotland, noted for his role in the consolidation of the Scottish kingdom.
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B.
Causantín mac Fergusa
Causantín mac Fergusa was an early 9th-century king of the Picts whose reign marked a significant stage in the formation of the medieval kingdom that would become Scotland.
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C.
Áed Find
Áed Find was a king of Dál Riata in the 8th century, remembered in later tradition as an important ancestor of the Scottish royal line.
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D.
Áedán mac Gabráin
Áedán mac Gabráin was a late 6th- to early 7th-century king of Dál Riata, known for his military campaigns in Ireland and Britain and for being one of the first Scottish rulers recorded in contemporary sources.
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E.
Ailpín mac Echdach
Ailpín mac Echdach was a 9th-century Scottish noble traditionally regarded as the father of Kenneth MacAlpin, the first king to unite the Picts and Scots.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Áed mac Cináeda Description of subject: Áed mac Cináeda was a 9th-century King of the Picts (often styled King of Scots), son of Kenneth MacAlpin, who ruled briefly after Constantine I before being killed in a revolt.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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