Khara-Khoto manuscripts
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The Khara-Khoto manuscripts are a major cache of medieval texts discovered in the ruins of the Tangut city of Khara-Khoto, providing crucial evidence for the language, religion, and culture of the Western Xia dynasty.
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| Khara-Khoto manuscripts canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22050326 — 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: Khara-Khoto manuscripts Context triple: [Tangut script, hasNotableManuscriptCorpus, Khara-Khoto manuscripts]
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Turfan manuscripts
The Turfan manuscripts are a significant collection of ancient Central Asian texts, preserving religious, literary, and administrative writings in multiple languages and scripts that illuminate the cultural and linguistic history of the Silk Road region.
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Dunhuang manuscripts
The Dunhuang manuscripts are a vast cache of ancient texts, paintings, and documents discovered in the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang, China, offering unparalleled insight into the religious, cultural, and social life of medieval Central and East Asia.
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C.
Chu silk manuscripts
The Chu silk manuscripts are ancient Chinese texts from the Warring States period, written on silk and notable for their early depictions of cosmology, mythology, and divination practices.
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D.
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan is an archaeological and travel narrative by Aurel Stein detailing his explorations and discoveries of ancient sites around Khotan in the Taklamakan Desert.
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E.
Antemoro manuscripts
The Antemoro manuscripts are a corpus of historical and esoteric texts from Madagascar, preserved by the Antemoro people and written in the Arabic-derived Sorabe script.
- 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: Khara-Khoto manuscripts Target entity description: The Khara-Khoto manuscripts are a major cache of medieval texts discovered in the ruins of the Tangut city of Khara-Khoto, providing crucial evidence for the language, religion, and culture of the Western Xia dynasty.
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A.
Turfan manuscripts
The Turfan manuscripts are a significant collection of ancient Central Asian texts, preserving religious, literary, and administrative writings in multiple languages and scripts that illuminate the cultural and linguistic history of the Silk Road region.
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B.
Dunhuang manuscripts
The Dunhuang manuscripts are a vast cache of ancient texts, paintings, and documents discovered in the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang, China, offering unparalleled insight into the religious, cultural, and social life of medieval Central and East Asia.
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C.
Chu silk manuscripts
The Chu silk manuscripts are ancient Chinese texts from the Warring States period, written on silk and notable for their early depictions of cosmology, mythology, and divination practices.
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D.
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan is an archaeological and travel narrative by Aurel Stein detailing his explorations and discoveries of ancient sites around Khotan in the Taklamakan Desert.
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E.
Antemoro manuscripts
The Antemoro manuscripts are a corpus of historical and esoteric texts from Madagascar, preserved by the Antemoro people and written in the Arabic-derived Sorabe script.
- F. None of above. chosen
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