Feradach
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Feradach is a figure from early Scottish hagiographical tradition known primarily as the father of Saint Fillan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Feradach canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10487327 — 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: Feradach Context triple: [Saint Fillan, father, Feradach]
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A.
Fidach
Fidach was one of the early medieval Pictish kingdoms in what is now northern Scotland, known primarily from historical and linguistic reconstructions rather than detailed contemporary records.
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B.
Dúnán
Dúnán was a 11th-century Bishop of Dublin, notable as the first bishop of the Norse city and an important early ecclesiastical figure in Ireland.
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C.
Balranald
Balranald is a rural town in the western Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, situated on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River.
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D.
Strathairn
Strathairn is the surname of American actor David Strathairn, known for his work in film, television, and theater.
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E.
Tullaghan
Tullaghan is a small coastal village in northwest Ireland known for being the only seaside settlement in County Leitrim, situated along the Atlantic coast near the border with County Donegal.
- 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: Feradach Target entity description: Feradach is a figure from early Scottish hagiographical tradition known primarily as the father of Saint Fillan.
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A.
Fidach
Fidach was one of the early medieval Pictish kingdoms in what is now northern Scotland, known primarily from historical and linguistic reconstructions rather than detailed contemporary records.
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B.
Dúnán
Dúnán was a 11th-century Bishop of Dublin, notable as the first bishop of the Norse city and an important early ecclesiastical figure in Ireland.
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C.
Balranald
Balranald is a rural town in the western Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, situated on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River.
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D.
Strathairn
Strathairn is the surname of American actor David Strathairn, known for his work in film, television, and theater.
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E.
Tullaghan
Tullaghan is a small coastal village in northwest Ireland known for being the only seaside settlement in County Leitrim, situated along the Atlantic coast near the border with County Donegal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Scottish hagiographical tradition
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person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Scottish saints’ genealogies
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early Scottish Christianity ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasChild | Saint Fillan ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | early Scottish hagiographical sources ⓘ |
| notableFor | paternal relationship to Saint Fillan ⓘ |
| notableRole | father of Saint Fillan ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Christianity ⓘ |
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: Feradach Description of subject: Feradach is a figure from early Scottish hagiographical tradition known primarily as the father of Saint Fillan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.