Westcott and Hort Greek New Testament
E492186
The Westcott and Hort Greek New Testament is a critical 19th-century edition of the New Testament in Greek that significantly influenced modern biblical scholarship and many contemporary Bible translations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Westcott and Hort Greek New Testament canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5089845 — 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: Westcott and Hort Greek New Testament Context triple: [Westcott and Hort text, alsoKnownAs, Westcott and Hort Greek New Testament]
-
A.
Robinson–Pierpont Byzantine Greek New Testament editions
The Robinson–Pierpont Byzantine Greek New Testament editions are critical editions of the Greek New Testament that present a standardized form of the Byzantine text, emphasizing the majority-text tradition in textual criticism.
-
B.
United Bible Societies Greek New Testament
The United Bible Societies Greek New Testament is a critically edited scholarly edition of the Greek New Testament widely used as a standard base text for modern Bible translations and academic study.
-
C.
A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament
A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament is Bruce M. Metzger’s influential scholarly work that explains significant textual variants in the New Testament and the reasoning behind their evaluation in modern critical editions.
-
D.
Editio Octava Critica Maior of the Greek New Testament
The Editio Octava Critica Maior of the Greek New Testament is Constantin von Tischendorf’s monumental eighth critical edition of the Greek New Testament, renowned for its extensive use of ancient manuscripts and its foundational role in modern textual criticism.
-
E.
Erasmus’s Greek New Testament editions
Erasmus’s Greek New Testament editions are early 16th-century critical printed texts of the New Testament in Greek that profoundly shaped subsequent Bible translations and the development of modern biblical scholarship.
- 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: Westcott and Hort Greek New Testament Target entity description: The Westcott and Hort Greek New Testament is a critical 19th-century edition of the New Testament in Greek that significantly influenced modern biblical scholarship and many contemporary Bible translations.
-
A.
Robinson–Pierpont Byzantine Greek New Testament editions
The Robinson–Pierpont Byzantine Greek New Testament editions are critical editions of the Greek New Testament that present a standardized form of the Byzantine text, emphasizing the majority-text tradition in textual criticism.
-
B.
United Bible Societies Greek New Testament
The United Bible Societies Greek New Testament is a critically edited scholarly edition of the Greek New Testament widely used as a standard base text for modern Bible translations and academic study.
-
C.
A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament
A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament is Bruce M. Metzger’s influential scholarly work that explains significant textual variants in the New Testament and the reasoning behind their evaluation in modern critical editions.
-
D.
Editio Octava Critica Maior of the Greek New Testament
The Editio Octava Critica Maior of the Greek New Testament is Constantin von Tischendorf’s monumental eighth critical edition of the Greek New Testament, renowned for its extensive use of ancient manuscripts and its foundational role in modern textual criticism.
-
E.
Erasmus’s Greek New Testament editions
Erasmus’s Greek New Testament editions are early 16th-century critical printed texts of the New Testament in Greek that profoundly shaped subsequent Bible translations and the development of modern biblical scholarship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | critical edition of the New Testament ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
The New Testament in the Original Greek
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
WH Greek New Testament NERFINISHED ⓘ Westcott-Hort text NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basisOfText | Alexandrian text-type ⓘ |
| completedAfter | nearly 28 years of preparation ⓘ |
| componentWork |
The New Testament in the Original Greek: Introduction and Appendix
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The New Testament in the Original Greek: Text NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Acts of the Apostles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Book of Revelation NERFINISHED ⓘ General Epistles NERFINISHED ⓘ Gospels NERFINISHED ⓘ Pauline Epistles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| editor |
Brooke Foss Westcott
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fenton John Anthony Hort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feature |
critical apparatus
ⓘ
textual notes ⓘ |
| field | New Testament textual criticism ⓘ |
| followedBy | Nestle text and later critical editions ⓘ |
| hasReception | highly influential but also controversial among some textual critics ⓘ |
| influenced |
American Standard Version New Testament
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
English Revised Version New Testament NERFINISHED ⓘ Nestle Greek New Testament NERFINISHED ⓘ Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece NERFINISHED ⓘ Revised Standard Version New Testament NERFINISHED ⓘ Revised Version of the Bible NERFINISHED ⓘ United Bible Societies Greek New Testament NERFINISHED ⓘ many modern English Bible translations ⓘ |
| language | Koine Greek ⓘ |
| methodology | genealogical method of textual criticism ⓘ |
| opposedTextType | Byzantine text-type as secondary ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| precededBy | Textus Receptus tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1881 ⓘ |
| publisher | Macmillan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rejects | Textus Receptus as primary base text ⓘ |
| reliesOn |
Codex Sinaiticus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Codex Vaticanus NERFINISHED ⓘ other early Greek manuscripts ⓘ |
| subject | New Testament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| textTypePreferred | Neutral text (their term for earliest recoverable text) ⓘ |
| theory | Syrian recension theory ⓘ |
| usedBy | many 20th-century Bible translators ⓘ |
| usedIn | academic study of the New Testament ⓘ |
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: Westcott and Hort Greek New Testament Description of subject: The Westcott and Hort Greek New Testament is a critical 19th-century edition of the New Testament in Greek that significantly influenced modern biblical scholarship and many contemporary Bible translations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.