batch.motif.celtic-irish-tain-bo-cualnge-dunn-gutenberg-l68-l85
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record_id: batch.motif.celtic-irish-tain-bo-cualnge-dunn-gutenberg-l68-l85
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/tain-bo-cualnge-dunn.md
passage_locator:
label: The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge / THE ANCIENT IRISH EPIC TALE
/ TAIN BO CUALNGE; lines 68-85
start: '68'
end: '85'
translation: The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage is a title-page section identifying the work as The Ancient
Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge, glossed as The Cualnge Cattle-Raid, presented
as an English rendering from Irish manuscript sources by Joseph Dunn.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The work is identified as The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The title is glossed as The Cualnge Cattle-Raid.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The passage states that the work is rendered into English from Irish sources
including the Book of Leinster and allied manuscripts.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Joseph Dunn is credited on the title page and identified as a professor at
the Catholic University in Washington.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Joseph Dunn
description: Person credited on the title page; identified as Professor at the Catholic
University, Washington.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
roles:
- id: role:1
label: credited English renderer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage says the work was done into English and then gives Joseph Dunn's
name under 'By'.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
symbols: []
scenes: []
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: cattle raid
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The title gloss explicitly identifies the tale as The Cualnge Cattle-Raid.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: This passage is a title page, not a narrative episode; the raid is named
but not described.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 68-75
quote_or_summary: '"THE ANCIENT IRISH EPIC TALE" / "TAIN BO CUALNGE"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/tain-bo-cualnge-dunn.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: line 77
quote_or_summary: '"THE CUALNGE CATTLE-RAID"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/tain-bo-cualnge-dunn.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 79-82
quote_or_summary: The title page says this is the first complete English rendering
from Irish sources, specifically the Book of Leinster and allied manuscripts.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/tain-bo-cualnge-dunn.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 84-85
quote_or_summary: Joseph Dunn is named and identified as Professor at the Catholic
University, Washington.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/tain-bo-cualnge-dunn.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: The passage is bibliographic title-page material. The only motif-like content
is the named cattle-raid in the title gloss; no narrative scene or comparative
claim is present.
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 taxonomy references were assigned because the available taxonomy list does not include a cattle-raid motif and the passage does not support interpreting the raid as sacred theft or another listed family.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:celtic-irish-tain-bo-cualnge-dunn-gutenberg__l68-l85
passage_sha256=50676609f556f54090d1f21124378533c68574028293267a942900ea1a13e2ea