Nowell Codex
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The Nowell Codex is the late 10th–early 11th century Old English manuscript best known for preserving the only surviving copy of the epic poem Beowulf, along with several other important prose and poetic texts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nowell Codex canonical | 2 |
| Vercelli Book | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T975133 — 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: Nowell Codex Context triple: [Beowulf, manuscript, Nowell Codex]
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A.
Codex Boturini
Codex Boturini is a pre-Hispanic Aztec pictorial manuscript that chronicles the Mexica migration and the legendary origins of Tenochtitlan.
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B.
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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C.
Codex Mendoza
The Codex Mendoza is a 16th-century Aztec manuscript created shortly after the Spanish conquest that documents Mexica history, tribute, and daily life for colonial authorities.
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D.
Bay Psalm Book
The Bay Psalm Book is the first book printed in British North America, a 1640 metrical English translation of the biblical Psalms used by early New England Puritans for congregational singing.
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E.
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.
- 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: Nowell Codex Target entity description: The Nowell Codex is the late 10th–early 11th century Old English manuscript best known for preserving the only surviving copy of the epic poem Beowulf, along with several other important prose and poetic texts.
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A.
Codex Boturini
Codex Boturini is a pre-Hispanic Aztec pictorial manuscript that chronicles the Mexica migration and the legendary origins of Tenochtitlan.
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B.
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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C.
Codex Mendoza
The Codex Mendoza is a 16th-century Aztec manuscript created shortly after the Spanish conquest that documents Mexica history, tribute, and daily life for colonial authorities.
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D.
Bay Psalm Book
The Bay Psalm Book is the first book printed in British North America, a 1640 metrical English translation of the biblical Psalms used by early New England Puritans for congregational singing.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Beowulf manuscript
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Old English manuscript ⓘ codex ⓘ medieval manuscript ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Beowulf
ⓘ
surface form:
Beowulf Manuscript
Cotton Vitellius A XV ⓘ
surface form:
Cotton Vitellius A.xv (part 2)
|
| associatedWith | Laurence Nowell ⓘ |
| cataloguedBy | Sir Robert Cotton ⓘ |
| collection | Cotton Library ⓘ |
| containsGenre |
biblical paraphrase
ⓘ
epic poetry ⓘ hagiography ⓘ marvels literature ⓘ religious prose ⓘ |
| containsWork |
Beowulf
ⓘ
Judith ⓘ Letter of Alexander to Aristotle ⓘ Saint Christopher (prose narrative) ⓘ The Passion of Saint Christopher ⓘ The Wonders of the East ⓘ |
| culture | Anglo-Saxon ⓘ |
| currentCity |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| damagedIn | Ashburnham House fire ⓘ |
| damagedInYear | 1731 ⓘ |
| date |
early 11th century
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late 10th century ⓘ |
| era | late Anglo-Saxon period ⓘ |
| folioFormat | codex ⓘ |
| language | Old English ⓘ |
| location | British Library ⓘ |
| material | parchment ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Laurence Nowell ⓘ |
| origin | Anglo-Saxon England ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cotton Vitellius A XV
ⓘ
surface form:
Cotton Vitellius A.xv
Cotton Library ⓘ
surface form:
Cotton collection at the British Library
|
| preservationStatus | partially damaged by fire ⓘ |
| primarySignificance | preserves the only surviving copy of Beowulf ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| repository |
British Library
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surface form:
British Library, London
|
| script | Insular minuscule ⓘ |
| scriptorium | unknown ⓘ |
| shelfmark |
Cotton Vitellius A XV
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surface form:
Cotton Vitellius A.xv
|
| subject |
Germanic heroic legend
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biblical narrative ⓘ saints' lives ⓘ wonders and marvels ⓘ |
| writingSupport | vellum ⓘ |
| 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: Nowell Codex Description of subject: The Nowell Codex is the late 10th–early 11th century Old English manuscript best known for preserving the only surviving copy of the epic poem Beowulf, along with several other important prose and poetic texts.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Vercelli Book
this entity surface form:
Vercelli Book