Received Text
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The Received Text, or Textus Receptus, is a historic printed Greek New Testament text that served as the primary basis for many early Protestant Bible translations, including the King James Version.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Received Text canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T967932 — 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: Received Text Context triple: [Textus Receptus, hasAlternativeName, Received Text]
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A.
MSG
MSG is a famous multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City known for hosting major sports events, concerts, and entertainment spectacles.
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B.
MSGS
MSGS is the stock ticker symbol for Madison Square Garden Sports Corp., a publicly traded company that owns and operates professional sports franchises and related entertainment assets.
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C.
C-text
C-text is one of the principal textual versions of the Middle English allegorical poem *Piers Plowman*, representing a distinct editorial and manuscript tradition within its complex transmission history.
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D.
Media Mail
Media Mail is a discounted U.S. Postal Service shipping option specifically for sending educational materials and media such as books, sound recordings, and DVDs.
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E.
Messenger
Messenger is Meta's cross-platform messaging application that enables users to send text, voice, and video communications across mobile and web.
- 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: Received Text Target entity description: The Received Text, or Textus Receptus, is a historic printed Greek New Testament text that served as the primary basis for many early Protestant Bible translations, including the King James Version.
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A.
MSG
MSG is a famous multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City known for hosting major sports events, concerts, and entertainment spectacles.
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B.
MSGS
MSGS is the stock ticker symbol for Madison Square Garden Sports Corp., a publicly traded company that owns and operates professional sports franchises and related entertainment assets.
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C.
C-text
C-text is one of the principal textual versions of the Middle English allegorical poem *Piers Plowman*, representing a distinct editorial and manuscript tradition within its complex transmission history.
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D.
Media Mail
Media Mail is a discounted U.S. Postal Service shipping option specifically for sending educational materials and media such as books, sound recordings, and DVDs.
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E.
Messenger
Messenger is Meta's cross-platform messaging application that enables users to send text, voice, and video communications across mobile and web.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Greek New Testament text
ⓘ
historical biblical text ⓘ printed edition of the New Testament ⓘ |
| basisFor |
King James Version
ⓘ
New Testament of the Dutch Statenvertaling ⓘ Geneva Bible ⓘ
surface form:
New Testament of the Geneva Bible
King James Version ⓘ
surface form:
New Testament of the King James Version
Luther Bible ⓘ
surface form:
New Testament of the Luther Bible
many early Protestant Bible translations ⓘ |
| compiledFrom |
Codex Basilensis
ⓘ
surface form:
Byzantine Greek manuscripts
late medieval Greek manuscripts ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Critical Text
ⓘ
Majority text ⓘ
surface form:
Majority Text
Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece ⓘ |
| etymology | Latin phrase meaning "received text" ⓘ |
| firstEditionPlace |
Basel-Stadt
ⓘ
surface form:
Basel
|
| firstEditionYear | 1516 ⓘ |
| firstEditor | Desiderius Erasmus ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | TR ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Acts of the Apostles
ⓘ
Book of Revelation ⓘ Catholic Epistles ⓘ
surface form:
General Epistles
Gospels ⓘ Pauline Epistles ⓘ |
| hasEnglishName | Received Text self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasLatinName | Textus Receptus ⓘ |
| hasNotableEditor |
Desiderius Erasmus
ⓘ
Robert Estienne ⓘ Theodore Beza ⓘ |
| hasNotablePrinter | Johann Froben ⓘ |
| historicalRole | standard printed Greek New Testament for several centuries ⓘ |
| influenced | Protestant Reformation Bible translation ⓘ |
| language | Koine Greek ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Protestant Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
| script | Greek alphabet ⓘ |
| subject | New Testament ⓘ |
| textType | Byzantine text-type ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 16th century ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Reformation-era translators
ⓘ
early modern Protestant churches ⓘ |
| usedFor |
preaching
ⓘ
theological study ⓘ translation ⓘ |
| usedIn |
early Dutch Bible translations
ⓘ
early English Bible translations ⓘ early German Bible translations ⓘ |
| viewedAs | authoritative Greek text by many early Protestants ⓘ |
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: Received Text Description of subject: The Received Text, or Textus Receptus, is a historic printed Greek New Testament text that served as the primary basis for many early Protestant Bible translations, including the King James Version.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Textus Receptus