now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library)
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The now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript was a medieval British Library codex once notable for containing the only known text of the Old English poem "The Battle of Maldon" before its destruction in the 1731 Cotton Library fire.
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| now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20505057 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library) Context triple: [The Battle of Maldon, preservedIn, now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library)]
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Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection
The Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection is a late 14th-century Middle English manuscript best known for preserving the unique texts of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and three other alliterative poems.
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British Library Cotton Vitellius A. xv
British Library Cotton Vitellius A. xv is a famous early medieval manuscript best known for preserving the sole surviving copy of the Old English epic Beowulf alongside other important texts.
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British Library Cotton Collection
The British Library Cotton Collection is a historically significant assemblage of medieval and early modern manuscripts and documents, many of which were gathered by the antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton and now form a core part of the British Library’s manuscript holdings.
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Cotton collection of manuscripts
The Cotton collection of manuscripts is a historically significant assemblage of medieval and early modern manuscripts formed by Sir Robert Cotton, now one of the core holdings of the British Library.
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Cottonian Library manuscripts
The Cottonian Library manuscripts are a historically significant collection of medieval and early modern documents, including key Anglo-Saxon and British historical texts, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton and now held by the British Library.
- 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: now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library) Target entity description: The now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript was a medieval British Library codex once notable for containing the only known text of the Old English poem "The Battle of Maldon" before its destruction in the 1731 Cotton Library fire.
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A.
Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection
The Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection is a late 14th-century Middle English manuscript best known for preserving the unique texts of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and three other alliterative poems.
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B.
British Library Cotton Vitellius A. xv
British Library Cotton Vitellius A. xv is a famous early medieval manuscript best known for preserving the sole surviving copy of the Old English epic Beowulf alongside other important texts.
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C.
British Library Cotton Collection
The British Library Cotton Collection is a historically significant assemblage of medieval and early modern manuscripts and documents, many of which were gathered by the antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton and now form a core part of the British Library’s manuscript holdings.
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D.
Cotton collection of manuscripts
The Cotton collection of manuscripts is a historically significant assemblage of medieval and early modern manuscripts formed by Sir Robert Cotton, now one of the core holdings of the British Library.
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E.
Cottonian Library manuscripts
The Cottonian Library manuscripts are a historically significant collection of medieval and early modern documents, including key Anglo-Saxon and British historical texts, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton and now held by the British Library.
- F. None of above. chosen
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