Ailill mac Máta
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Ailill mac Máta is a legendary king of Connacht in early Irish mythology, best known as the husband of Queen Medb in the Ulster Cycle tales.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ailill mac Máta canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9401298 — 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: Ailill mac Máta Context triple: [Cruachan, associatedWithDeityOrFigure, Ailill mac Máta]
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A.
Ard Mhacha
Ard Mhacha is the Irish name for Armagh, a historic city in Northern Ireland known as an important ecclesiastical and cultural center.
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B.
Ó Nualláin
Ó Nualláin is an Irish-language surname that corresponds to the anglicized family name Nolan.
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C.
Fingal
Fingal is an epic poem attributed to the legendary bard Ossian, celebrated for its romanticized portrayal of ancient Gaelic heroes and landscapes.
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D.
Fingal
Fingal is a county in eastern Ireland, north of Dublin, known for its coastal towns, historical sites, and rapidly growing suburban communities.
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E.
Ailech
Ailech was an important early medieval Irish kingdom and power base in the northwest, historically associated with the northern branch of the Uí Néill dynasty.
- 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: Ailill mac Máta Target entity description: Ailill mac Máta is a legendary king of Connacht in early Irish mythology, best known as the husband of Queen Medb in the Ulster Cycle tales.
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A.
Ard Mhacha
Ard Mhacha is the Irish name for Armagh, a historic city in Northern Ireland known as an important ecclesiastical and cultural center.
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B.
Ó Nualláin
Ó Nualláin is an Irish-language surname that corresponds to the anglicized family name Nolan.
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C.
Fingal
Fingal is an epic poem attributed to the legendary bard Ossian, celebrated for its romanticized portrayal of ancient Gaelic heroes and landscapes.
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D.
Fingal
Fingal is a county in eastern Ireland, north of Dublin, known for its coastal towns, historical sites, and rapidly growing suburban communities.
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E.
Ailech
Ailech was an important early medieval Irish kingdom and power base in the northwest, historically associated with the northern branch of the Uí Néill dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in the Ulster Cycle
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figure in Irish mythology ⓘ legendary king ⓘ mythological character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Táin Bó Cúailnge
ⓘ
Ulster Cycle tales ⓘ
linked to:
Ulster Cycle
|
| associatedGenre | heroic saga ⓘ |
| associatedMotif |
kingship in Connacht
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marital rivalry and equality ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Connacht
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Queen Medb ⓘ Ulster Cycle ⓘ |
| associatedWithTribeOrPeople | Connachta ⓘ |
| culture | early Irish ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | legendary ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasSpouseRole | consort of a warrior-queen ⓘ |
| kingdomRuled | Connacht ⓘ |
| languageOfTradition | Old Irish ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Irish saga literature ⓘ |
| mythologicalPeriod |
Ulster Cycle era
ⓘ
linked to:
Ulster Cycle
|
| nameVariant | Ailill mac Máta of Connacht ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
political counterpart to Medb
ⓘ
royal consort ⓘ |
| notableFor |
marriage to Queen Medb
ⓘ
role in the cattle raid of Cooley ⓘ |
| recordedIn | medieval Irish literary tradition ⓘ |
| regionInMyth |
western Ireland
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Ireland
|
| religiousContext | pre-Christian Irish mythology ⓘ |
| roleInTales |
co-ruler of Connacht with Medb
ⓘ
husband of Medb ⓘ |
| sourceType | medieval Irish manuscripts ⓘ |
| spouse |
Medb
ⓘ
linked to:
Queen Medb
|
| title | King of Connacht ⓘ |
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: Ailill mac Máta Description of subject: Ailill mac Máta is a legendary king of Connacht in early Irish mythology, best known as the husband of Queen Medb in the Ulster Cycle tales.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.