Photius' Bibliotheca
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Photius' Bibliotheca is a 9th-century Byzantine compilation of summaries and critiques of hundreds of Greek works, many of which are otherwise lost.
All labels observed (1)
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| Photius' Bibliotheca canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16598698 — 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: Photius' Bibliotheca Context triple: [Proclus' Chrestomathy, knownFrom, Photius' Bibliotheca]
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A.
Hypatian Chronicle
The Hypatian Chronicle is a key medieval East Slavic historical chronicle that preserves important accounts of Kievan Rus' and neighboring regions.
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B.
Skylitzes’ Synopsis of Histories
Skylitzes’ Synopsis of Histories is a 12th-century Byzantine historical chronicle by John Skylitzes that narrates the reigns of Byzantine emperors from 811 to 1057, drawing on earlier sources to provide a key account of Middle Byzantine political and military history.
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C.
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca is an ancient Greek mythographical handbook that systematically compiles and summarizes the major myths and genealogies of Greek mythology.
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D.
Proclus' Chrestomathy
Proclus' Chrestomathy is a lost ancient Greek work, known through later summaries, that provided prose epitomes of the early epic poems of the Trojan cycle and other pre-Homeric epics.
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E.
Patrologia Graeca
Patrologia Graeca is a monumental 19th-century collection of edited and printed texts by the Greek Church Fathers and other early Christian writers, compiled by J.-P. Migne.
- 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: Photius' Bibliotheca Target entity description: Photius' Bibliotheca is a 9th-century Byzantine compilation of summaries and critiques of hundreds of Greek works, many of which are otherwise lost.
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A.
Hypatian Chronicle
The Hypatian Chronicle is a key medieval East Slavic historical chronicle that preserves important accounts of Kievan Rus' and neighboring regions.
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B.
Skylitzes’ Synopsis of Histories
Skylitzes’ Synopsis of Histories is a 12th-century Byzantine historical chronicle by John Skylitzes that narrates the reigns of Byzantine emperors from 811 to 1057, drawing on earlier sources to provide a key account of Middle Byzantine political and military history.
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C.
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca is an ancient Greek mythographical handbook that systematically compiles and summarizes the major myths and genealogies of Greek mythology.
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D.
Proclus' Chrestomathy
Proclus' Chrestomathy is a lost ancient Greek work, known through later summaries, that provided prose epitomes of the early epic poems of the Trojan cycle and other pre-Homeric epics.
-
E.
Patrologia Graeca
Patrologia Graeca is a monumental 19th-century collection of edited and printed texts by the Greek Church Fathers and other early Christian writers, compiled by J.-P. Migne.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.