Triple

T20505057
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Battle of Maldon E503405 entity
Predicate preservedIn P2249 FINISHED
Object now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library)
The now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript was a medieval British Library codex once notable for containing the only known text of the Old English poem "The Battle of Maldon" before its destruction in the 1731 Cotton Library fire.
E1434749 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library) | Statement: [The Battle of Maldon, preservedIn, now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library)
Context triple: [The Battle of Maldon, preservedIn, now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library)]
  • A. Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection
    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.
  • B. British Library Cotton Vitellius A. xv
    British Library Cotton Vitellius A. xv is a famous early medieval manuscript best known for preserving the sole surviving copy of the Old English epic Beowulf alongside other important texts.
  • C. British Library Cotton Collection
    The British Library Cotton Collection is a historically significant assemblage of medieval and early modern manuscripts and documents, many of which were gathered by the antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton and now form a core part of the British Library’s manuscript holdings.
  • D. Cotton collection of manuscripts
    The Cotton collection of manuscripts is a historically significant assemblage of medieval and early modern manuscripts formed by Sir Robert Cotton, now one of the core holdings of the British Library.
  • E. Cottonian Library manuscripts
    The Cottonian Library manuscripts are a historically significant collection of medieval and early modern documents, including key Anglo-Saxon and British historical texts, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton and now held by the British Library.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library)
Triple: [The Battle of Maldon, preservedIn, now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library)]
Generated description
The now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript was a medieval British Library codex once notable for containing the only known text of the Old English poem "The Battle of Maldon" before its destruction in the 1731 Cotton Library fire.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library)
Target entity description: The now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript was a medieval British Library codex once notable for containing the only known text of the Old English poem "The Battle of Maldon" before its destruction in the 1731 Cotton Library fire.
  • A. Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection
    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.
  • B. British Library Cotton Vitellius A. xv
    British Library Cotton Vitellius A. xv is a famous early medieval manuscript best known for preserving the sole surviving copy of the Old English epic Beowulf alongside other important texts.
  • C. British Library Cotton Collection
    The British Library Cotton Collection is a historically significant assemblage of medieval and early modern manuscripts and documents, many of which were gathered by the antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton and now form a core part of the British Library’s manuscript holdings.
  • D. Cotton collection of manuscripts
    The Cotton collection of manuscripts is a historically significant assemblage of medieval and early modern manuscripts formed by Sir Robert Cotton, now one of the core holdings of the British Library.
  • E. Cottonian Library manuscripts
    The Cottonian Library manuscripts are a historically significant collection of medieval and early modern documents, including key Anglo-Saxon and British historical texts, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton and now held by the British Library.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69e0b4b1e52c8190894281cf7e3283ab completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e69dc539908190a18918fd9b7a829d completed April 20, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0893c1a0648190846fc415e5469749 completed May 16, 2026, 3:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0894753bb08190a9c07a9264b2b292 completed May 16, 2026, 3:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08952b742c8190b00f806ab772e46d completed May 16, 2026, 4:02 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:35 a.m.