Papyrus 66
E195608
Papyrus 66 is an early third-century Greek manuscript of the Gospel of John, notable for its importance to New Testament textual criticism and its affiliation with the Alexandrian text-type.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Papyrus 66 canonical | 4 |
| 𝔓66 (Gospel of John papyrus) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1716115 — 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: Papyrus 66 Context triple: [Alexandrian text-type, includesWitness, Papyrus 66]
-
A.
Papyrus 75
Papyrus 75 is an early 3rd-century Greek papyrus manuscript of the Gospels of Luke and John, notable for its high-quality Alexandrian text and importance for New Testament textual criticism.
-
B.
Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Sinaiticus is one of the oldest and most complete surviving manuscripts of the Christian Bible, written in Greek on parchment in the 4th century.
-
C.
Codex Alexandrinus
Codex Alexandrinus is a 5th-century Greek manuscript of the Bible, notable as one of the oldest and most complete surviving copies of both the Old and New Testaments.
-
D.
Codex Vaticanus
Codex Vaticanus is a 4th-century Greek biblical manuscript held in the Vatican Library and regarded as one of the oldest and most important witnesses to the text of the Bible.
-
E.
Codex Bezae
Codex Bezae is a 5th-century Greek-Latin bilingual manuscript of the New Testament, notable for its distinctive textual variants and importance in biblical textual criticism.
- 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: Papyrus 66 Target entity description: Papyrus 66 is an early third-century Greek manuscript of the Gospel of John, notable for its importance to New Testament textual criticism and its affiliation with the Alexandrian text-type.
-
A.
Papyrus 75
Papyrus 75 is an early 3rd-century Greek papyrus manuscript of the Gospels of Luke and John, notable for its high-quality Alexandrian text and importance for New Testament textual criticism.
-
B.
Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Sinaiticus is one of the oldest and most complete surviving manuscripts of the Christian Bible, written in Greek on parchment in the 4th century.
-
C.
Codex Alexandrinus
Codex Alexandrinus is a 5th-century Greek manuscript of the Bible, notable as one of the oldest and most complete surviving copies of both the Old and New Testaments.
-
D.
Codex Vaticanus
Codex Vaticanus is a 4th-century Greek biblical manuscript held in the Vatican Library and regarded as one of the oldest and most important witnesses to the text of the Bible.
-
E.
Codex Bezae
Codex Bezae is a 5th-century Greek-Latin bilingual manuscript of the New Testament, notable for its distinctive textual variants and importance in biblical textual criticism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gospel of John manuscript
ⓘ
Greek biblical manuscript ⓘ New Testament papyrus manuscript ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
P66
ⓘ
𝔓66 ⓘ |
| approximateDate | c. 200 CE ⓘ |
| approximateLinesPerPage | about 15–25 lines per page ⓘ |
| associatedWithScholarshipOf | New Testament textual criticism ⓘ |
| associatedWithTextFamily | Alexandrian text family ⓘ |
| categoryInAland | Category I ⓘ |
| citedIn |
Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece
ⓘ
United Bible Societies Greek New Testament ⓘ critical editions of the Greek New Testament ⓘ |
| collection | Bodmer Papyri ⓘ |
| containsPassage |
John 14:29–21:9 (with lacunae)
ⓘ
John 1:1 ⓘ John 1:1–6:11 ⓘ John 6:35–14:26 ⓘ |
| contents | Gospel of John ⓘ |
| currentLocation | Bibliotheca Bodmeriana ⓘ |
| date | early 3rd century ⓘ |
| discoveredIn |
Bodmer Papyri collection
ⓘ
linked to:
Bodmer Papyri
|
| earliestWitnessOf | large portions of the Gospel of John ⓘ |
| format | codex ⓘ |
| genre | religious text ⓘ |
| hasLacunae | yes ⓘ |
| hasNominaSacra | yes ⓘ |
| language | Koine Greek ⓘ |
| layout | single column per page ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cologny, Switzerland
ⓘ
linked to:
Cologny
|
| material | papyrus ⓘ |
| numberOfLeaves | approximately 75 leaves originally ⓘ |
| paleographicalDatingMethod | paleography ⓘ |
| placeOfDiscovery | Jabal Abu Mana, near Dishna, Egypt ⓘ |
| producedBy | early Christian scriptorium in Egypt ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Christianity ⓘ |
| script | uncial script ⓘ |
| shelfMark |
Papyrus Bodmer II
ⓘ
linked to:
Bodmer Papyri
|
| significance |
important for New Testament textual criticism
ⓘ
important witness to the text of the Gospel of John ⓘ |
| stateOfPreservation | substantial but fragmentary ⓘ |
| textType | Alexandrian text-type ⓘ |
| textualCharacter | predominantly Alexandrian with some unique readings ⓘ |
| usedFor |
comparison of textual variants in the Gospel of John
ⓘ
study of early New Testament text ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| writingMaterialSource | papyrus codex ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Greek ⓘ |
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: Papyrus 66 Description of subject: Papyrus 66 is an early third-century Greek manuscript of the Gospel of John, notable for its importance to New Testament textual criticism and its affiliation with the Alexandrian text-type.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.