Gothic Bible
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The Gothic Bible is a 4th-century translation of the Bible into the Gothic language, traditionally attributed to the Arian bishop Ulfilas and known as the earliest substantial text in any Germanic language.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gothic Bible canonical | 9 |
| Gothic Bible translation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T887345 — 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: Gothic Bible Context triple: [Gothic Christianity, usedScriptureTranslation, Gothic Bible]
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A.
Confraternity Bible
The Confraternity Bible is a mid-20th-century English Catholic translation of the Bible produced under the auspices of the U.S. bishops as a modern revision of the Douay-Rheims.
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B.
Psalter
The Psalter is the traditional name for the biblical Book of Psalms, a collection of religious songs, prayers, and poems central to Jewish and Christian worship.
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C.
The Monk
The Monk is a seminal 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, renowned for its dark themes of corruption, lust, and the supernatural within a Spanish monastic setting.
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D.
Gothic silk exchange
The Gothic silk exchange is a historic late-medieval mercantile building in Valencia renowned for its elaborate Gothic architecture and its role in the city’s prosperous silk trade.
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E.
Merseburg Incantations
The Merseburg Incantations are a pair of early medieval Germanic pagan charms preserved in a 10th-century manuscript, notable as the only known examples of pre-Christian Old High German magical poetry.
- 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: Gothic Bible Target entity description: The Gothic Bible is a 4th-century translation of the Bible into the Gothic language, traditionally attributed to the Arian bishop Ulfilas and known as the earliest substantial text in any Germanic language.
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A.
Confraternity Bible
The Confraternity Bible is a mid-20th-century English Catholic translation of the Bible produced under the auspices of the U.S. bishops as a modern revision of the Douay-Rheims.
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B.
Psalter
The Psalter is the traditional name for the biblical Book of Psalms, a collection of religious songs, prayers, and poems central to Jewish and Christian worship.
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C.
The Monk
The Monk is a seminal 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, renowned for its dark themes of corruption, lust, and the supernatural within a Spanish monastic setting.
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D.
Gothic silk exchange
The Gothic silk exchange is a historic late-medieval mercantile building in Valencia renowned for its elaborate Gothic architecture and its role in the city’s prosperous silk trade.
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E.
Merseburg Incantations
The Merseburg Incantations are a pair of early medieval Germanic pagan charms preserved in a 10th-century manuscript, notable as the only known examples of pre-Christian Old High German magical poetry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bible translation
ⓘ
Christian scripture ⓘ religious text ⓘ |
| associatedEthnicGroup |
Ostrogoths
ⓘ
linked to:
Goths
Visigoths ⓘ
linked to:
Goths
|
| associatedPeople | Gothic tribes ⓘ |
| attributedTo | Ulfilas ⓘ |
| cataloguedAs |
Codex Argenteus (Uppsala MS)
ⓘ
linked to:
Codex Argenteus
|
| centuryOfTranslation | 4th century ⓘ |
| contains |
Gospels
ⓘ
New Testament ⓘ Pauline epistles ⓘ
linked to:
Pauline Epistles
parts of the Old Testament ⓘ parts of the Psalms ⓘ |
| currentLocationOfMajorManuscript |
Uppsala University Library
ⓘ
linked to:
Uppsala University
|
| dateOfTranslation | circa 350 ⓘ |
| denominationalContext |
Arian Christianity
ⓘ
linked to:
Arianism
|
| earliestSubstantialTextIn |
Gothic language
ⓘ
any Germanic language ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
Biblical studies
ⓘ
Germanic philology ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ |
| inferredTheology |
Arian Christology
ⓘ
linked to:
Arianism
|
| influenced | reconstruction of Proto-Germanic phonology ⓘ |
| language | Gothic language ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | earliest extensive Germanic literary monument ⓘ |
| materialForm | illuminated manuscript ⓘ |
| notableManuscriptFeature | silver and gold ink on purple parchment (Codex Argenteus) ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Greek language ⓘ |
| purpose | missionary work among the Goths ⓘ |
| regionOfUse |
Balkan provinces of the Roman Empire
ⓘ
Gothic communities in the Roman Empire ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| script | Gothic alphabet ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| survivesIn |
Codex Ambrosianus
ⓘ
Codex Argenteus ⓘ Codex Carolinus ⓘ Codex Gissensis ⓘ
linked to:
Codex Carolinus
Skeireins fragments ⓘ |
| textType |
translation of the Greek New Testament
ⓘ
translation of the Greek Septuagint (Old Testament parts) ⓘ |
| translator |
Ulfilas
ⓘ
Wulfila ⓘ
linked to:
Ulfilas
|
| usedFor |
comparison with other early Bible translations
ⓘ
reconstruction of Gothic grammar ⓘ |
| writingSystemCreator | Ulfilas ⓘ |
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Subject: Gothic Bible Description of subject: The Gothic Bible is a 4th-century translation of the Bible into the Gothic language, traditionally attributed to the Arian bishop Ulfilas and known as the earliest substantial text in any Germanic language.
Referenced by (10)
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