Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection
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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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| British Library Cotton Nero A.x | 2 |
| British Library Cotton Nero A.x manuscript | 1 |
| Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T537765 — 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 Nero A.x manuscript collection Context triple: [Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, partOf, Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection]
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A.
Codex
Codex is an AI system developed by OpenAI that translates natural language into code and powers tools like GitHub Copilot.
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B.
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.
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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.
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New Testament manuscripts
New Testament manuscripts are ancient handwritten copies of the Christian New Testament texts, preserved in various languages and forms and serving as the primary evidence for reconstructing the original biblical writings.
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Gutenberg Bible copies
Gutenberg Bible copies are surviving exemplars of the first major book printed in Europe using movable metal type by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century, prized for their historical and bibliographic significance.
- 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 Nero A.x manuscript collection Target entity description: 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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A.
Codex
Codex is an AI system developed by OpenAI that translates natural language into code and powers tools like GitHub Copilot.
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B.
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.
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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.
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D.
New Testament manuscripts
New Testament manuscripts are ancient handwritten copies of the Christian New Testament texts, preserved in various languages and forms and serving as the primary evidence for reconstructing the original biblical writings.
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E.
Gutenberg Bible copies
Gutenberg Bible copies are surviving exemplars of the first major book printed in Europe using movable metal type by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century, prized for their historical and bibliographic significance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Middle English manuscript
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codex ⓘ illuminated manuscript ⓘ medieval manuscript ⓘ poetry manuscript ⓘ |
| associatedAuthor |
Gawain Poet
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linked to:
The Gawain Poet
Pearl Poet ⓘ
linked to:
The Gawain Poet
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| cataloguedIn | Cotton collection catalogue ⓘ |
| century | 14th century ⓘ |
| collection | Cotton Library ⓘ |
| containsWork |
Cleanness
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Patience ⓘ Pearl ⓘ Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ⓘ four Middle English alliterative poems ⓘ |
| date | late 14th century ⓘ |
| decoration |
illuminated initials
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miniatures ⓘ |
| dialect |
Northwest Midlands Middle English
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linked to:
English Midlands
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| genre | alliterative poetry ⓘ |
| heldBy | British Library ⓘ |
| language | Middle English ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Alliterative Revival ⓘ |
| location |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| material | parchment ⓘ |
| notableFor |
preserving the unique text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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preserving the unique texts of Pearl, Patience, and Cleanness ⓘ |
| origin |
West Midlands dialect area
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linked to:
West Midlands
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| region | England ⓘ |
| repositorySection | Cotton Nero pressmark series ⓘ |
| script | Gothic script ⓘ |
| scriptorium | English scriptorium ⓘ |
| shelfmark | Cotton Nero A.x ⓘ |
| stateOfPreservation | partially damaged ⓘ |
| studiedIn | Middle English literary scholarship ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Arthurian romance
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Christian theology ⓘ morality and virtue ⓘ |
| textualStatus |
unique manuscript source for Cleanness
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unique manuscript source for Patience ⓘ unique manuscript source for Pearl ⓘ unique manuscript source for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection
linked to: Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection
linked to: Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection