Codex Boturini
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Codex Boturini is a pre-Hispanic Aztec pictorial manuscript that chronicles the Mexica migration and the legendary origins of Tenochtitlan.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Codex Boturini canonical | 7 |
| Codex Aubin | 1 |
| Codex Fejérváry-Mayer | 1 |
| Codex Magliabechiano (brought to scholarly attention) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T741818 — 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: Codex Boturini Context triple: [Tenochtitlan founding legend, recordedIn, Codex Boturini]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis
Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis is an ancient Etruscan linen book, preserved as mummy wrappings, that constitutes the longest known text in the Etruscan language.
- 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: Codex Boturini Target entity description: Codex Boturini is a pre-Hispanic Aztec pictorial manuscript that chronicles the Mexica migration and the legendary origins of Tenochtitlan.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis
Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis is an ancient Etruscan linen book, preserved as mummy wrappings, that constitutes the longest known text in the Etruscan language.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Aztec codex
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historical document ⓘ pictorial manuscript ⓘ |
| alternateName | Tira de la Peregrinación ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Tenochtitlan ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity | Huitzilopochtli ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople | Mexica ⓘ |
| chronicles |
Mexica migration
ⓘ
legendary origins of Tenochtitlan ⓘ |
| collection | Mexican codices ⓘ |
| colorUsage | monochrome ⓘ |
| countryLocatedIn | Mexico ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Mexico ⓘ |
| culture |
Aztec
ⓘ
linked to:
Aztec Empire
Mexica ⓘ |
| currentLocation |
Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City
ⓘ
linked to:
National Museum of Anthropology
|
| depicts |
Aztlan
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Chicomoztoc ⓘ Mexica leaders ⓘ footprint paths indicating movement ⓘ founding of Tenochtitlan ⓘ place glyphs ⓘ year signs ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupAssociated |
Mexica people
ⓘ
linked to:
Mexica
|
| format | screenfold manuscript ⓘ |
| genre |
historical narrative
ⓘ
migration narrative ⓘ |
| language | Nahuatl pictographic tradition ⓘ |
| material | amatl paper ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Lorenzo Boturini Benaducci ⓘ |
| readingDirection | from right to left ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin | Central Mexico ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Codex Aubin
ⓘ
Codex Azcatitlan ⓘ Codex Mendoza ⓘ |
| religionContext |
Aztec religion
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linked to:
Aztec mythology
|
| researchField |
Mesoamerican studies
ⓘ
art history ⓘ ethnohistory ⓘ |
| scriptType | pictographic ⓘ |
| significance |
important source for early history of Tenochtitlan
ⓘ
primary source for Mexica migration traditions ⓘ |
| subject |
Mexica migration from Aztlan to the Basin of Mexico
ⓘ
foundation myths of Tenochtitlan ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Late Postclassic Mesoamerica
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linked to:
Postclassic period of Mesoamerica
pre-Hispanic era ⓘ |
| usedAsSourceBy | historians of pre-Hispanic Mexico ⓘ |
| writingMedium | black ink ⓘ |
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: Codex Boturini Description of subject: Codex Boturini is a pre-Hispanic Aztec pictorial manuscript that chronicles the Mexica migration and the legendary origins of Tenochtitlan.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Codex Boturini
linked to: Codex Boturini
linked to: Codex Boturini