Triple

T1950442
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bruce M. Metzger E42144 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration
The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration is a foundational scholarly work on New Testament textual criticism, examining how the text was copied, altered, and reconstructed over time.
E218306 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: The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration | Statement: [Bruce M. Metzger, notableWork, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration
Context triple: [Bruce M. Metzger, notableWork, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration]
  • A. New Testament textual apparatus
    The New Testament textual apparatus is a critical tool in biblical scholarship that presents and evaluates the variant readings of New Testament manuscripts to help determine the most reliable text.
  • B. New Testament textual criticism
    New Testament textual criticism is the scholarly discipline that analyzes and compares ancient manuscript variants of the New Testament to reconstruct its earliest attainable text and understand its transmission history.
  • C. Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament
    Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament is John Wesley’s influential 18th-century biblical commentary that provides practical, devotional, and theological insights on the New Testament text.
  • D. New Testament Greek tradition
    The New Testament Greek tradition refers to the body of early Christian writings, linguistic forms, and manuscript practices in Koine Greek that shaped the composition, transmission, and interpretation of the New Testament.
  • E. Annotationes maiores in Novum Testamentum
    Annotationes maiores in Novum Testamentum is a major scholarly commentary on the New Testament by Reformation theologian Theodore Beza, offering extensive exegetical and textual notes.
  • 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: The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration
Triple: [Bruce M. Metzger, notableWork, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration]
Generated description
The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration is a foundational scholarly work on New Testament textual criticism, examining how the text was copied, altered, and reconstructed over time.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration
Target entity description: The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration is a foundational scholarly work on New Testament textual criticism, examining how the text was copied, altered, and reconstructed over time.
  • A. New Testament textual apparatus
    The New Testament textual apparatus is a critical tool in biblical scholarship that presents and evaluates the variant readings of New Testament manuscripts to help determine the most reliable text.
  • B. New Testament textual criticism
    New Testament textual criticism is the scholarly discipline that analyzes and compares ancient manuscript variants of the New Testament to reconstruct its earliest attainable text and understand its transmission history.
  • C. Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament
    Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament is John Wesley’s influential 18th-century biblical commentary that provides practical, devotional, and theological insights on the New Testament text.
  • D. New Testament Greek tradition
    The New Testament Greek tradition refers to the body of early Christian writings, linguistic forms, and manuscript practices in Koine Greek that shaped the composition, transmission, and interpretation of the New Testament.
  • E. Annotationes maiores in Novum Testamentum
    Annotationes maiores in Novum Testamentum is a major scholarly commentary on the New Testament by Reformation theologian Theodore Beza, offering extensive exegetical and textual notes.
  • 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_69a8870e08fc8190a319cbf2600db15f completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb332b014819085bfc88d66cfc10a completed March 7, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adfbc17ce08190bd74c9c62d260326 completed March 8, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adfc3dd6b881908d9d6d56f40d06e3 completed March 8, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adfcc544188190bed97ee898e30b80 completed March 8, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.