Cotton Vespasian A VIII
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Cotton Vespasian A VIII is a medieval manuscript volume from the Cotton collection, notable for its early English historical and religious texts preserved in the British Library.
All labels observed (1)
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| Cotton Vespasian A VIII canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19979188 — 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: Cotton Vespasian A VIII Context triple: [Cotton collection of manuscripts, hasPart, Cotton Vespasian A VIII]
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A.
Cotton Vitellius A XV
Cotton Vitellius A XV is the medieval manuscript in the British Library that famously preserves the only surviving copy of the Old English epic poem Beowulf.
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B.
Vipsanius
Vipsanius is a Roman nomen (family name) associated with members of the Vipsania gens in ancient Rome.
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C.
Aemilii Papii
Aemilii Papii was a patrician family branch of the ancient Roman gens Aemilia, known for producing magistrates and senators in the Roman Republic.
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D.
Vita Caracallae
Vita Caracallae is a biography of the Roman emperor Caracalla found within the late antique Latin collection of imperial lives known as the Historia Augusta.
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E.
Poppaeus
Poppaeus is the family name of a member of the ancient Roman gens Poppaea, a lesser-known plebeian lineage of the Roman Republic and Empire.
- 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: Cotton Vespasian A VIII Target entity description: Cotton Vespasian A VIII is a medieval manuscript volume from the Cotton collection, notable for its early English historical and religious texts preserved in the British Library.
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A.
Cotton Vitellius A XV
Cotton Vitellius A XV is the medieval manuscript in the British Library that famously preserves the only surviving copy of the Old English epic poem Beowulf.
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B.
Vipsanius
Vipsanius is a Roman nomen (family name) associated with members of the Vipsania gens in ancient Rome.
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C.
Aemilii Papii
Aemilii Papii was a patrician family branch of the ancient Roman gens Aemilia, known for producing magistrates and senators in the Roman Republic.
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D.
Vita Caracallae
Vita Caracallae is a biography of the Roman emperor Caracalla found within the late antique Latin collection of imperial lives known as the Historia Augusta.
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E.
Poppaeus
Poppaeus is the family name of a member of the ancient Roman gens Poppaea, a lesser-known plebeian lineage of the Roman Republic and Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.