ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue)
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The ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue) is an international database that records and describes all known editions of books printed in Europe before 1501, serving as a key reference tool for early printed works such as the Gutenberg Bible.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue) canonical | 2 |
| Incunabula Short Title Catalogue | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2157751 — 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: ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue) Context triple: [Gutenberg Bible copies, areCataloguedIn, ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue)]
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A.
Codex Nuttall
Codex Nuttall is a pre-Columbian Mixtec pictographic manuscript that records the genealogy, history, and religious narratives of Mixtec rulers and communities in what is now southern Mexico.
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B.
Editio Critica Maior
Editio Critica Maior is a comprehensive critical edition of the Greek New Testament that documents the full range of textual variants across the manuscript tradition.
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C.
Codex Atlanticus
The Codex Atlanticus is a vast collection of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks, sketches, and writings covering subjects from art and anatomy to engineering and scientific inventions.
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D.
Codex Basilensis
Codex Basilensis is a significant Greek New Testament manuscript known for its representative Byzantine text-type and its importance in biblical textual criticism.
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E.
Codex Gregorianus
The Codex Gregorianus is an early 4th-century private compilation of Roman imperial constitutions that became a foundational source for later official law codes.
- 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: ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue) Target entity description: The ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue) is an international database that records and describes all known editions of books printed in Europe before 1501, serving as a key reference tool for early printed works such as the Gutenberg Bible.
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A.
Codex Nuttall
Codex Nuttall is a pre-Columbian Mixtec pictographic manuscript that records the genealogy, history, and religious narratives of Mixtec rulers and communities in what is now southern Mexico.
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B.
Editio Critica Maior
Editio Critica Maior is a comprehensive critical edition of the Greek New Testament that documents the full range of textual variants across the manuscript tradition.
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C.
Codex Atlanticus
The Codex Atlanticus is a vast collection of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks, sketches, and writings covering subjects from art and anatomy to engineering and scientific inventions.
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D.
Codex Basilensis
Codex Basilensis is a significant Greek New Testament manuscript known for its representative Byzantine text-type and its importance in biblical textual criticism.
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E.
Codex Gregorianus
The Codex Gregorianus is an early 4th-century private compilation of Roman imperial constitutions that became a foundational source for later official law codes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bibliographic database
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incunabula catalogue ⓘ union catalogue ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ISTC ⓘ |
| accessMode |
freely accessible
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online ⓘ |
| countryOfHostInstitution | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| covers |
15th-century printed books
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Gutenberg Bible copies ⓘ
surface form:
Gutenberg Bible editions
incunabula ⓘ |
| dataSource |
British Library
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surface form:
British Library collections
contributions from libraries worldwide ⓘ |
| describes | editions rather than individual copies ⓘ |
| excludes | editions printed after 1500 ⓘ |
| formatOfPublication | web database ⓘ |
| fullName |
ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Incunabula Short Title Catalogue
|
| geographicScope | Europe ⓘ |
| hasAudience | international research community ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
searchable by ISTC number
ⓘ
searchable by author ⓘ searchable by date ⓘ searchable by place of printing ⓘ searchable by printer or publisher ⓘ searchable by title ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfRecord | bibliographic record ⓘ |
| hostedBy |
British Library
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surface form:
British Library website
|
| languageOfInterface | English ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | British Library ⓘ |
| primaryUsers |
bibliographers
ⓘ
book historians ⓘ librarians ⓘ scholars of early printing ⓘ |
| purpose |
to provide a comprehensive record of all known incunabula editions
ⓘ
to serve as a reference tool for identifying early printed editions ⓘ |
| records |
format information
ⓘ
imprint details ⓘ locations of surviving copies ⓘ references to standard bibliographies ⓘ short-title descriptions ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
GW (Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke)
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surface form:
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke
Universal Short Title Catalogue ⓘ |
| scope | editions of books printed in Europe before 1501 ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
early printing
ⓘ
history of the book ⓘ incunabulistics ⓘ |
| temporalScopeEnd | 1500 ⓘ |
| temporalScopeStart | c. 1450 ⓘ |
| usesIdentifier | ISTC number ⓘ |
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: ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue) Description of subject: The ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue) is an international database that records and describes all known editions of books printed in Europe before 1501, serving as a key reference tool for early printed works such as the Gutenberg Bible.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue)
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fullName
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ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Incunabula Short Title Catalogue