NAB
E20355
Bible translation
Catholic Bible
English Bible translation
abbreviation
revision of New American Bible
NAB is the commonly used abbreviation for the New American Bible, a Catholic English translation of the Bible widely used in the United States.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T157836 — 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: NAB Context triple: [New American Bible, abbreviation, NAB]
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A.
NBC
NBC is a major American broadcast television network known for its nationwide programming, including news, sports, and entertainment.
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B.
WNBC
WNBC is the primary NBC-owned television station serving the New York City metropolitan area.
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C.
Nielson
Nielson is a surname and given name that functions as a spelling variant of Nelson, commonly of Scandinavian or English origin.
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D.
Westwood One
Westwood One is a major American radio network best known for its nationwide sports coverage, including live broadcasts of NFL games.
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E.
Broadcasting Board of Governors
The Broadcasting Board of Governors was the former independent U.S. government agency that oversaw federally funded international media outlets such as Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
- 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: NAB Target entity description: NAB is the commonly used abbreviation for the New American Bible, a Catholic English translation of the Bible widely used in the United States.
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A.
NBC
NBC is a major American broadcast television network known for its nationwide programming, including news, sports, and entertainment.
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B.
WNBC
WNBC is the primary NBC-owned television station serving the New York City metropolitan area.
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C.
Nielson
Nielson is a surname and given name that functions as a spelling variant of Nelson, commonly of Scandinavian or English origin.
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D.
Westwood One
Westwood One is a major American radio network best known for its nationwide sports coverage, including live broadcasts of NFL games.
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E.
Broadcasting Board of Governors
The Broadcasting Board of Governors was the former independent U.S. government agency that oversaw federally funded international media outlets such as Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bible translation
ⓘ
Bible translation ⓘ Bible translation ⓘ Catholic Bible ⓘ Catholic Bible ⓘ English Bible translation ⓘ English Bible translation ⓘ abbreviation ⓘ revision of New American Bible ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
NAB
ⓘ
NABRE ⓘ
linked to:
NAB
|
| contains |
Deuterocanonical books
ⓘ
New Testament ⓘ Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| denominationalUse | Catholic Church in the United States ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
New American Bible Revised Edition
ⓘ
linked to:
New American Bible
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| publisher | United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Roman Catholic Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| scriptureType |
Christian Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| standsFor | New American Bible ⓘ |
| targetAudience | English-speaking Catholics ⓘ |
| textType | modern English translation ⓘ |
| translationFrom |
Aramaic
ⓘ
Biblical Hebrew ⓘ
linked to:
Hebrew
Koine Greek ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Catholic liturgy
ⓘ
catechesis ⓘ private study ⓘ |
| usedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: NAB Description of subject: NAB is the commonly used abbreviation for the New American Bible, a Catholic English translation of the Bible widely used in the United States.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
NAB