I,m not sure but you check your software. for validation may put your thermocouple in some over where you know the temperature by built in thermocouples.
Dear Dr. Pintea, the thermocouples are calibrated by the prodicers if you pay for it. Otherwise you can refer to the tables of conversion, but this does not mean that the thermocouples are calibrated.
to do the calibration it is necessary to compare the measured value of your sensor with a reference point or the value reads by a calibrated higher accurancy sensor
The International Practical Temperature Scale has several defined reference points. You can use them to calibrate your temperature, assuming that you can obtain several grams each of the pure materials. Heat the material until it is melted and then let it cool slowly measuring the thermocouple signal. There will be a constant signal at the melting point of the substance.
I'm surprised at how much difference there is, 0.25°C at the melting point of gold. Not that it makes all that much difference for thermocouple measurements where the accuracy at 1000°C is typically quoted as ±0.5°.