Elbing Vocabulary
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Elbing Vocabulary is a medieval glossary that preserves a significant portion of the otherwise poorly attested Old Prussian language.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elbing Vocabulary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5915344 — 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: Elbing Vocabulary Context triple: [Old Prussian language, hasTextAttestation, Elbing Vocabulary]
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A.
Wheelock
Wheelock is a surname most notably associated with Eleazar Wheelock, the 18th-century American Congregational minister and founder of Dartmouth College.
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B.
Elend (German)
Elend (German) is the German term for "misery," denoting a state of great suffering, distress, or hardship.
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C.
Bable
Bable is another name for the Asturian language, a Romance language spoken primarily in the Asturias region of northern Spain.
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D.
Limba
The Limba are one of the largest and oldest indigenous ethnic groups in Sierra Leone, known for their distinct language, cultural traditions, and historical role in the country’s northern regions.
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E.
Slovo
Slovo is a surname most notably associated with South African anti-apartheid activist and politician Joe Slovo and his family.
- 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: Elbing Vocabulary Target entity description: Elbing Vocabulary is a medieval glossary that preserves a significant portion of the otherwise poorly attested Old Prussian language.
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A.
Wheelock
Wheelock is a surname most notably associated with Eleazar Wheelock, the 18th-century American Congregational minister and founder of Dartmouth College.
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B.
Elend (German)
Elend (German) is the German term for "misery," denoting a state of great suffering, distress, or hardship.
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C.
Bable
Bable is another name for the Asturian language, a Romance language spoken primarily in the Asturias region of northern Spain.
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D.
Limba
The Limba are one of the largest and oldest indigenous ethnic groups in Sierra Leone, known for their distinct language, cultural traditions, and historical role in the country’s northern regions.
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E.
Slovo
Slovo is a surname most notably associated with South African anti-apartheid activist and politician Joe Slovo and his family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Old Prussian language source
ⓘ
medieval glossary ⓘ |
| approximateDate | 13th–14th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Old Prussian language
ⓘ
Teutonic Order state in Prussia ⓘ
linked to:
Teutonic Order state
|
| attestationContext |
Old Prussian is poorly attested
ⓘ
linked to:
Old Prussian language
|
| cityAssociated | Elbing ⓘ |
| contains |
Old Prussian words with German glosses
ⓘ
lexical correspondences between Old Prussian and German ⓘ |
| contributesTo | knowledge of extinct Baltic languages ⓘ |
| culturalContext | medieval Prussia ⓘ |
| documentType |
historical source
ⓘ
linguistic source ⓘ |
| field |
Baltic linguistics
ⓘ
Indo-European studies ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ |
| genre |
glossary
ⓘ
word list ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| importanceFor |
comparison of Baltic languages
ⓘ
reconstruction of Old Prussian lexicon ⓘ |
| influences |
Old Prussian lexicography
ⓘ
reconstructions of Old Prussian morphology ⓘ reconstructions of Old Prussian phonology ⓘ |
| languageDocument | Old Prussian language ⓘ |
| languageFamilyContext | Baltic branch of Indo-European ⓘ |
| medium | manuscript ⓘ |
| modernCityName | Elbląg ⓘ |
| modernCountry | Poland ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Elbing ⓘ |
| originalLanguageOfEntries |
Old Prussian
ⓘ
linked to:
Old Prussian language
|
| originalLanguageOfGlosses | German ⓘ |
| preservationStatus | partially preserved ⓘ |
| preserves |
Old Prussian vocabulary
ⓘ
lexical items of Old Prussian ⓘ |
| purpose | lexical aid for understanding Old Prussian via German ⓘ |
| region | Prussia ⓘ |
| scholarlyRelevance | primary source for Old Prussian ⓘ |
| script | Latin script ⓘ |
| significance | major source for Old Prussian ⓘ |
| status | extant text ⓘ |
| typeOfContent |
bilingual word list
ⓘ
lexical pairs ⓘ |
| usedBy |
etymologists
ⓘ
linguists studying Old Prussian ⓘ philologists ⓘ |
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: Elbing Vocabulary Description of subject: Elbing Vocabulary is a medieval glossary that preserves a significant portion of the otherwise poorly attested Old Prussian language.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.