Comparative mythology corpus
batch.motif.comparative-golden-bough-volume-2-frazer-gutenberg-l62-l82
batch.motif.comparative-golden-bough-volume-2-frazer-gutenberg-l62-l82
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record_id: batch.motif.comparative-golden-bough-volume-2-frazer-gutenberg-l62-l82
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
passage_locator:
label: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2); lines 62-82'
start: '62'
end: '82'
translation: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)'
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: The Golden Bough / A Study in Comparative Religion
summary: 'The passage is the title page for Volume II of James George Frazer''s
The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion, published by MacMillan and
Co. in New York and London in 1894.'
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage gives the work's title as The Golden Bough and its subtitle as
A Study in Comparative Religion.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The passage identifies James George Frazer as the author and describes him
as M.A. and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The passage identifies the book as a two-volume work and specifies this passage
as Volume II.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The passage lists New York and London, MacMillan and Co., and the year 1894
as publication information.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: James George Frazer
description: Named as the author of the work and as Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
roles:
- id: role:1
label: author
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The title page states the work is by James George Frazer.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
symbols: []
scenes: []
candidate_motifs: []
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 62-82
quote_or_summary: '"The Golden Bough" and "A Study in Comparative Religion" are
presented as title and subtitle.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used for extraction evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 62-82
quote_or_summary: The title page names James George Frazer, M.A., Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge, as the author.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 62-82
quote_or_summary: The title page states that the work is in two volumes and identifies
this as Volume II.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 62-82
quote_or_summary: The publication information lists New York and London, MacMillan
and Co., and 1894.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: high
comparison_claims: high
notes: The passage is bibliographic title-page material and contains no narrative,
ritual description, mythic episode, symbol pattern, or explicit comparative claim
to extract as a motif.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
No candidate motifs or comparison claims were extracted because the supplied passage contains only title-page metadata.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:comparative-golden-bough-volume-2-frazer-gutenberg__l62-l82
passage_sha256=5c227484c525a7cbaa4c72ea1ff20190acf0419bfe5870dba1cf2d3f80f4d88f