Triple

T4902088
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Voynich manuscript E109823 entity
Predicate shelfmark P19913 FINISHED
Object Beinecke MS 408
Beinecke MS 408 is the unique shelfmark for the Voynich manuscript, a famously undeciphered illustrated codex held at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
E478680 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: Beinecke MS 408 | Statement: [Voynich manuscript, shelfmark, Beinecke MS 408]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beinecke MS 408
Context triple: [Voynich manuscript, shelfmark, Beinecke MS 408]
  • A. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
    The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is a renowned Yale University research library famous for its vast collection of rare books, manuscripts, and literary archives housed in a distinctive modernist building.
  • B. Parker Library manuscript collection
    The Parker Library manuscript collection is a renowned assemblage of medieval and early modern manuscripts, particularly rich in Anglo-Saxon and early English texts, housed at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
    The Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Duke University’s primary special collections repository, housing rare books, manuscripts, archives, and other unique research materials.
  • E. Cambridge University Library MS Nn.2.41
    Cambridge University Library MS Nn.2.41 is the manuscript designation for the Codex Bezae, a significant early bilingual Greek-Latin New Testament codex renowned for its distinctive textual variants.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Beinecke MS 408
Triple: [Voynich manuscript, shelfmark, Beinecke MS 408]
Generated description
Beinecke MS 408 is the unique shelfmark for the Voynich manuscript, a famously undeciphered illustrated codex held at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beinecke MS 408
Target entity description: Beinecke MS 408 is the unique shelfmark for the Voynich manuscript, a famously undeciphered illustrated codex held at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
  • A. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
    The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is a renowned Yale University research library famous for its vast collection of rare books, manuscripts, and literary archives housed in a distinctive modernist building.
  • B. Parker Library manuscript collection
    The Parker Library manuscript collection is a renowned assemblage of medieval and early modern manuscripts, particularly rich in Anglo-Saxon and early English texts, housed at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
    The Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Duke University’s primary special collections repository, housing rare books, manuscripts, archives, and other unique research materials.
  • E. Cambridge University Library MS Nn.2.41
    Cambridge University Library MS Nn.2.41 is the manuscript designation for the Codex Bezae, a significant early bilingual Greek-Latin New Testament codex renowned for its distinctive textual variants.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69bd441180708190ba42ffb44fea533a completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6e4dd6bc819094b1cbf533510995 completed March 20, 2026, 3:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be6fd6ce008190ae7897bc58a2e786 completed March 21, 2026, 10:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be70752384819088ce3b6d00dd166a completed March 21, 2026, 10:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be7126d1648190b3b0aa89891f02df completed March 21, 2026, 10:21 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:28 p.m.