Qurʾan manuscript in Chester Beatty Library
E204668
The Qurʾan manuscript in the Chester Beatty Library is a celebrated early 11th-century copy of the Qurʾan renowned for its exquisite calligraphy by the master scribe Ibn al-Bawwab.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Chester Beatty Library Qurʾan manuscripts collection | 1 |
| Qurʾan manuscript in Chester Beatty Library canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1819708 — 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: Qurʾan manuscript in Chester Beatty Library Context triple: [Ibn al-Bawwab, notableWork, Qurʾan manuscript in Chester Beatty Library]
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A.
Codex Bodley
Codex Bodley is a pre-Columbian Mixtec pictorial manuscript that records the genealogy, dynastic history, and rituals of Mixtec rulers in what is now Oaxaca, Mexico.
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B.
Codex Leicester
The Codex Leicester is a famous scientific notebook by Leonardo da Vinci, containing his observations and theories on topics such as astronomy, geology, hydrodynamics, and the properties of water.
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C.
Codex Marianus
Codex Marianus is an early Old Church Slavonic Gospel manuscript, written in the Glagolitic script and considered one of the most important monuments of Slavic medieval literature.
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D.
Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Sinaiticus is one of the oldest and most complete surviving manuscripts of the Christian Bible, written in Greek on parchment in the 4th century.
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E.
Codex Selden
Codex Selden is a pre-Hispanic Mixtec pictorial manuscript that records genealogies, dynastic histories, and ritual information from the Mixtec civilization of what is now southern Mexico.
- 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: Qurʾan manuscript in Chester Beatty Library Target entity description: The Qurʾan manuscript in the Chester Beatty Library is a celebrated early 11th-century copy of the Qurʾan renowned for its exquisite calligraphy by the master scribe Ibn al-Bawwab.
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A.
Codex Bodley
Codex Bodley is a pre-Columbian Mixtec pictorial manuscript that records the genealogy, dynastic history, and rituals of Mixtec rulers in what is now Oaxaca, Mexico.
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B.
Codex Leicester
The Codex Leicester is a famous scientific notebook by Leonardo da Vinci, containing his observations and theories on topics such as astronomy, geology, hydrodynamics, and the properties of water.
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C.
Codex Marianus
Codex Marianus is an early Old Church Slavonic Gospel manuscript, written in the Glagolitic script and considered one of the most important monuments of Slavic medieval literature.
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D.
Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Sinaiticus is one of the oldest and most complete surviving manuscripts of the Christian Bible, written in Greek on parchment in the 4th century.
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E.
Codex Selden
Codex Selden is a pre-Hispanic Mixtec pictorial manuscript that records genealogies, dynastic histories, and ritual information from the Mixtec civilization of what is now southern Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic manuscript
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Qurʾan manuscript ⓘ illuminated manuscript ⓘ religious manuscript ⓘ |
| artHistoricalSignificance | important example of early 11th-century Qurʾan calligraphy ⓘ |
| associatedPerson | Ibn al-Bawwab ⓘ |
| calligrapher | Ibn al-Bawwab ⓘ |
| century | 11th century ⓘ |
| cityOfCollection | Dublin ⓘ |
| collection |
Qurʾan manuscript in Chester Beatty Library
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Chester Beatty Library Qurʾan manuscripts collection
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| countryOfCollection | Ireland ⓘ |
| creator | Ibn al-Bawwab ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Islamic Golden Age ⓘ |
| currentStatus | museum object ⓘ |
| dateOfCreation | early 11th century ⓘ |
| decoration |
geometric motifs
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illuminated elements ⓘ ornamental headings ⓘ |
| function |
display of calligraphic mastery
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liturgical reading ⓘ private devotion ⓘ |
| genre | Islamic calligraphy ⓘ |
| hasPart |
surahs of the Qurʾan
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verses of the Qurʾan ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| literaryForm | sacred text ⓘ |
| material | parchment ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with Ibn al-Bawwab
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exquisite calligraphy ⓘ high aesthetic quality ⓘ |
| ownership | Chester Beatty Library ⓘ |
| placeOfCollection | Chester Beatty Library ⓘ |
| preservation | carefully conserved ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin | Islamic world ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| scribe | Ibn al-Bawwab ⓘ |
| script | Arabic script ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| scriptStyle | proportioned cursive script ⓘ |
| subject | Qurʾan text ⓘ |
| typeOfWork | complete Qurʾan copy ⓘ |
| work |
Quran
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surface form:
Qurʾan
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| writingSupport | vellum ⓘ |
| writingSystem | cursive Arabic script ⓘ |
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: Qurʾan manuscript in Chester Beatty Library Description of subject: The Qurʾan manuscript in the Chester Beatty Library is a celebrated early 11th-century copy of the Qurʾan renowned for its exquisite calligraphy by the master scribe Ibn al-Bawwab.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Qurʾan manuscript in Chester Beatty Library
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collection
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Qurʾan manuscript in Chester Beatty Library
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this entity surface form:
Chester Beatty Library Qurʾan manuscripts collection