Triple
T20505057
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Battle of Maldon |
E503405
|
entity |
| Predicate | preservedIn |
P2249
|
FINISHED |
| Object | now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library) |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 steps)
Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.
NER
Named-entity recognition
gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library) | Statement: [The Battle of Maldon, preservedIn, now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library) Context triple: [The Battle of Maldon, preservedIn, now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library)]
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A.
Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection
The Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection is a late 14th-century Middle English manuscript best known for preserving the unique texts of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and three other alliterative poems.
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B.
British Library Cotton Vitellius A. xv
British Library Cotton Vitellius A. xv is a famous early medieval manuscript best known for preserving the sole surviving copy of the Old English epic Beowulf alongside other important texts.
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C.
British Library Cotton Collection
The British Library Cotton Collection is a historically significant assemblage of medieval and early modern manuscripts and documents, many of which were gathered by the antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton and now form a core part of the British Library’s manuscript holdings.
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D.
Cotton collection of manuscripts
The Cotton collection of manuscripts is a historically significant assemblage of medieval and early modern manuscripts formed by Sir Robert Cotton, now one of the core holdings of the British Library.
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E.
Cottonian Library manuscripts
The Cottonian Library manuscripts are a historically significant collection of medieval and early modern documents, including key Anglo-Saxon and British historical texts, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton and now held by the British Library.
- 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: now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript (British Library) Target entity description: The now-lost Cotton Otho A.xii manuscript was a medieval British Library codex once notable for containing the only known text of the Old English poem "The Battle of Maldon" before its destruction in the 1731 Cotton Library fire.
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A.
Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection
The Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection is a late 14th-century Middle English manuscript best known for preserving the unique texts of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and three other alliterative poems.
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B.
British Library Cotton Vitellius A. xv
British Library Cotton Vitellius A. xv is a famous early medieval manuscript best known for preserving the sole surviving copy of the Old English epic Beowulf alongside other important texts.
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C.
British Library Cotton Collection
The British Library Cotton Collection is a historically significant assemblage of medieval and early modern manuscripts and documents, many of which were gathered by the antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton and now form a core part of the British Library’s manuscript holdings.
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D.
Cotton collection of manuscripts
The Cotton collection of manuscripts is a historically significant assemblage of medieval and early modern manuscripts formed by Sir Robert Cotton, now one of the core holdings of the British Library.
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E.
Cottonian Library manuscripts
The Cottonian Library manuscripts are a historically significant collection of medieval and early modern documents, including key Anglo-Saxon and British historical texts, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton and now held by the British Library.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 batches)
The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.
| Step | Stage | Batch ID | Status | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| creating | Elicitation | batch_69e0b4b1e52c8190894281cf7e3283ab |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e69dc539908190a18918fd9b7a829d |
completed | April 20, 2026, 9:42 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:35 a.m.