Old Turkic language
E124648
Old Turkic language is an early Turkic language known from runic inscriptions and manuscripts, serving as the historical ancestor of many modern Turkic languages.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Turkic | 15 |
| Old Turkic language canonical | 4 |
| Old Uyghur language | 2 |
| Orkhon Turkic | 2 |
| Archaic Turkic | 1 |
| Göktürk language | 1 |
| Old Turkic languages | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1055485 — 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: Old Turkic language Context triple: [Bashkir language, hasAncestor, Old Turkic language]
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A.
Chagatai Turkic
Chagatai Turkic is a historical Turkic literary language that served as a major cultural and administrative lingua franca in Central Asia, especially under Turkic-Mongol and Timurid rule.
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B.
Proto-Turkic
Proto-Turkic is the reconstructed common ancestor language of all Turkic languages, from which branches like Southwestern Turkic later evolved.
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C.
Kipchak languages
The Kipchak languages are a branch of the Turkic language family historically spoken by the Kipchak Turkic peoples across the Eurasian steppe, including groups such as the Crimean Tatars, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz.
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D.
Tocharian languages
The Tocharian languages were an extinct branch of the Indo-European family once spoken in the Tarim Basin of Central Asia, known from early medieval manuscripts and notable for their archaic linguistic features.
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E.
Oghuz Turkic language
Oghuz Turkic language is a major branch of the Turkic language family that includes modern languages such as Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Turkmen.
- 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: Old Turkic language Target entity description: Old Turkic language is an early Turkic language known from runic inscriptions and manuscripts, serving as the historical ancestor of many modern Turkic languages.
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A.
Chagatai Turkic
Chagatai Turkic is a historical Turkic literary language that served as a major cultural and administrative lingua franca in Central Asia, especially under Turkic-Mongol and Timurid rule.
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B.
Proto-Turkic
Proto-Turkic is the reconstructed common ancestor language of all Turkic languages, from which branches like Southwestern Turkic later evolved.
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C.
Kipchak languages
The Kipchak languages are a branch of the Turkic language family historically spoken by the Kipchak Turkic peoples across the Eurasian steppe, including groups such as the Crimean Tatars, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz.
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D.
Tocharian languages
The Tocharian languages were an extinct branch of the Indo-European family once spoken in the Tarim Basin of Central Asia, known from early medieval manuscripts and notable for their archaic linguistic features.
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E.
Oghuz Turkic language
Oghuz Turkic language is a major branch of the Turkic language family that includes modern languages such as Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Turkmen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Turkic language
ⓘ
historical language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Old Turkic language
ⓘ
surface form:
Old Turkic
Old Turkic Turkic ⓘ |
| ancestorOf |
Azerbaijani language
ⓘ
surface form:
Azerbaijani
Bashkir ⓘ Kazakh language ⓘ
surface form:
Kazakh
Kyrgyz ⓘ Turkish language ⓘ
surface form:
Modern Turkish
Tatar ⓘ Turkmen language ⓘ
surface form:
Turkmen
Uyghur language ⓘ
surface form:
Uyghur
Uzbek ⓘ other modern Turkic languages ⓘ |
| branch | Oghuric–Common Turkic split (Common Turkic side) ⓘ |
| directionOfWriting | right-to-left ⓘ |
| era |
10th century
ⓘ
7th century ⓘ 8th century ⓘ 9th century ⓘ |
| extinction | around 13th century ⓘ |
| glottocode | oldt1248 ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | vowel harmony ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | otk ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Turkic ⓘ |
| linguisticType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| morphology | suffixing ⓘ |
| partOf | Turkic language family ⓘ |
| primarySources |
Dunhuang
ⓘ
surface form:
Dunhuang manuscripts
Orkhon inscriptions ⓘ Talagan inscriptions ⓘ Turfan manuscripts ⓘ Yenisei inscriptions ⓘ |
| region |
Central Asia
ⓘ
Mongolia ⓘ Siberia ⓘ Xinjiang ⓘ |
| scriptType | alphabet ⓘ |
| standardForm |
Old Turkic language
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Orkhon Turkic
|
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Common Turkic ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early Middle Ages ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Göktürk Khaganate
ⓘ
Old Uyghur communities ⓘ Uyghur Khaganate ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Brahmi script
ⓘ
Manichaean script ⓘ Old Turkic script ⓘ Syriac alphabet ⓘ
surface form:
Syriac script
Uyghur Arabic alphabet ⓘ
surface form:
Uyghur script
runic script ⓘ |
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: Old Turkic language Description of subject: Old Turkic language is an early Turkic language known from runic inscriptions and manuscripts, serving as the historical ancestor of many modern Turkic languages.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Old Turkic
this entity surface form:
Old Turkic
this entity surface form:
Orkhon Turkic
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Göktürk language
this entity surface form:
Old Uyghur language
this entity surface form:
Old Turkic
this entity surface form:
Old Turkic
this entity surface form:
Orkhon Turkic
this entity surface form:
Old Turkic
this entity surface form:
Old Turkic
this entity surface form:
Old Turkic
this entity surface form:
Old Turkic
this entity surface form:
Old Turkic
this entity surface form:
Old Turkic languages
this entity surface form:
Old Turkic
this entity surface form:
Archaic Turkic
this entity surface form:
Old Turkic
this entity surface form:
Old Uyghur language
this entity surface form:
Old Turkic
this entity surface form:
Old Turkic
this entity surface form:
Old Turkic
this entity surface form:
Old Turkic