Ygerna
E731006
Ygerna is an alternate name for Igraine, the mother of King Arthur in Arthurian legend.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ygerna canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8395027 — 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: Ygerna Context triple: [Igraine, hasAlias, Ygerna]
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A.
Rognon
Rognon is a river in northeastern France that flows through the Haute-Marne department and serves as a tributary within the Marne river basin.
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B.
Kalyke
Kalyke is a small, irregular, retrograde moon of Jupiter belonging to the planet’s distant outer group of natural satellites.
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C.
Nemyriv
Nemyriv is a historic town in central Ukraine known for its Jewish heritage and role as a regional cultural and economic center.
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D.
Oreshak
Oreshak is a village in central Bulgaria known for its proximity to the historic Troyan Monastery and its traditional crafts and cultural heritage.
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E.
Rhynern
Rhynern is a district of the German city of Hamm, located in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- 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: Ygerna Target entity description: Ygerna is an alternate name for Igraine, the mother of King Arthur in Arthurian legend.
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A.
Rognon
Rognon is a river in northeastern France that flows through the Haute-Marne department and serves as a tributary within the Marne river basin.
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B.
Kalyke
Kalyke is a small, irregular, retrograde moon of Jupiter belonging to the planet’s distant outer group of natural satellites.
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C.
Nemyriv
Nemyriv is a historic town in central Ukraine known for its Jewish heritage and role as a regional cultural and economic center.
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D.
Oreshak
Oreshak is a village in central Bulgaria known for its proximity to the historic Troyan Monastery and its traditional crafts and cultural heritage.
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E.
Rhynern
Rhynern is a district of the German city of Hamm, located in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | mythological figure ⓘ |
| alternateNameOf | Igraine ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Arthurian legend
ⓘ
Matter of Britain ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Cornwall ⓘ |
| basedOn | earlier Celtic traditions ⓘ |
| culture | Medieval British literature ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Arthurian mythos
ⓘ
linked to:
Arthurian legend
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName | Igraine ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Elaine (Arthurian character)
ⓘ
King Arthur ⓘ Morgan le Fay ⓘ Morgause ⓘ |
| hasVariantName |
Igerna
ⓘ
Ygraine ⓘ
linked to:
Igraine
|
| languageOfName | Middle Welsh ⓘ |
| maritalStatusInLegend | widowed then remarried ⓘ |
| motherOf | King Arthur ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of King Arthur ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | noblewoman ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Camelot
ⓘ
Excalibur ⓘ Merlin ⓘ Round Table ⓘ
linked to:
mythical Round Table of Camelot
|
| spouseOf |
Gorlois
ⓘ
Uther Pendragon ⓘ |
| spouseSequence |
first Gorlois then Uther Pendragon
ⓘ
linked to:
Uther Pendragon
|
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: Ygerna Description of subject: Ygerna is an alternate name for Igraine, the mother of King Arthur in Arthurian legend.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.