A-text
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A-text is one of the principal early versions of the Middle English allegorical poem *Piers Plowman*, representing an initial and shorter stage in the work’s complex textual development.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A-text canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T658796 — 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: A-text Context triple: [Piers Plowman, hasVersion, A-text]
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A.
A's
A's is the common nickname for the Philadelphia Athletics, a historic Major League Baseball franchise.
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B.
AA
AA is the two-letter IATA airline designator used to identify American Airlines in flight schedules, tickets, and aviation systems.
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C.
AA
AA was the common abbreviation for the German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt) during the Nazi era.
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D.
ATE
ATE is a U.S. National Science Foundation program that supports the education and training of technicians for advanced technology fields through partnerships between two-year colleges, industry, and other educational institutions.
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E.
ATA
ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment), commonly known as IDE, is a standard interface used to connect storage devices like hard drives and optical drives to a computer's motherboard.
- 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: A-text Target entity description: A-text is one of the principal early versions of the Middle English allegorical poem *Piers Plowman*, representing an initial and shorter stage in the work’s complex textual development.
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A.
A's
A's is the common nickname for the Philadelphia Athletics, a historic Major League Baseball franchise.
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B.
AA
AA is the two-letter IATA airline designator used to identify American Airlines in flight schedules, tickets, and aviation systems.
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C.
AA
AA was the common abbreviation for the German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt) during the Nazi era.
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D.
ATE
ATE is a U.S. National Science Foundation program that supports the education and training of technicians for advanced technology fields through partnerships between two-year colleges, industry, and other educational institutions.
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E.
ATA
ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment), commonly known as IDE, is a standard interface used to connect storage devices like hard drives and optical drives to a computer's motherboard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Middle English literary text
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manuscript tradition ⓘ textual version ⓘ |
| associatedWork | Piers Plowman ⓘ |
| chronologicalRelation |
earlier than B-text of Piers Plowman
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earlier than C-text of Piers Plowman ⓘ |
| form | poem ⓘ |
| genre | allegorical poem ⓘ |
| isVersionOf | Piers Plowman ⓘ |
| language | Middle English ⓘ |
| lengthCharacteristic | shorter version ⓘ |
| narrativeMode | allegory ⓘ |
| textualDevelopmentRole |
initial stage in the poem’s complex textual development
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principal early version of Piers Plowman ⓘ |
| tradition |
Middle English
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surface form:
Middle English literature
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| workStage |
early version
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initial stage ⓘ |
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: A-text Description of subject: A-text is one of the principal early versions of the Middle English allegorical poem *Piers Plowman*, representing an initial and shorter stage in the work’s complex textual development.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.