Siddham script
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Siddham script is an ancient Indian writing system derived from Brahmi, historically used for recording Sanskrit Buddhist texts and mantras, especially in East Asia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Siddham script canonical | 9 |
| Siddhamātṛkā script | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1023085 — 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: Siddham script Context triple: [Brahmi script, hasDescendant, Siddham script]
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A.
Lontara script
The Lontara script is an indigenous writing system traditionally used by the Bugis and Makassarese peoples of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, to write their Austronesian languages.
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B.
Kawi script
Kawi script is an ancient Brahmic-derived writing system historically used across Java and other parts of Southeast Asia to write Old Javanese and related languages.
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C.
Brahmi script
The Brahmi script is one of the oldest writing systems of the Indian subcontinent, serving as the ancestor of most modern South and Southeast Asian scripts.
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D.
Gondi script
Gondi script is an abugida writing system used to represent the Gondi language spoken by the Gondi people of central India.
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E.
Kharoṣṭhī script
The Kharoṣṭhī script is an ancient right-to-left writing system used in northwestern South Asia, especially in the Gandhāra region, primarily for early Buddhist and administrative texts.
- 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: Siddham script Target entity description: Siddham script is an ancient Indian writing system derived from Brahmi, historically used for recording Sanskrit Buddhist texts and mantras, especially in East Asia.
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A.
Lontara script
The Lontara script is an indigenous writing system traditionally used by the Bugis and Makassarese peoples of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, to write their Austronesian languages.
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B.
Kawi script
Kawi script is an ancient Brahmic-derived writing system historically used across Java and other parts of Southeast Asia to write Old Javanese and related languages.
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C.
Brahmi script
The Brahmi script is one of the oldest writing systems of the Indian subcontinent, serving as the ancestor of most modern South and Southeast Asian scripts.
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D.
Gondi script
Gondi script is an abugida writing system used to represent the Gondi language spoken by the Gondi people of central India.
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E.
Kharoṣṭhī script
The Kharoṣṭhī script is an ancient right-to-left writing system used in northwestern South Asia, especially in the Gandhāra region, primarily for early Buddhist and administrative texts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abugida
ⓘ
historical script ⓘ writing system ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Siddhamatrka
ⓘ
Siddham script ⓘ
surface form:
Siddhamātṛkā script
|
| associatedWith |
Vajrayana
ⓘ
surface form:
Esoteric Buddhism
Shingon Buddhism ⓘ Tendai Buddhism ⓘ Vajrayana ⓘ
surface form:
Vajrayana Buddhism
|
| derivedFrom | Brahmi script ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Gupta script ⓘ |
| directionOfWriting | left-to-right ⓘ |
| encodedInUnicodeVersion | Unicode 7.0 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
anusvara sign
ⓘ
conjunct consonants ⓘ independent vowel letters ⓘ inherent vowel /a/ ⓘ visarga sign ⓘ vowel diacritics ⓘ |
| hasScriptType | alphasyllabary ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeBlock | Siddham (U+11580–U+115FF) ⓘ |
| historicallyUsedFor |
copying sutras
ⓘ
transmission of Buddhist dharani ⓘ |
| influenced | Japanese Siddham calligraphy tradition ⓘ |
| preservedIn |
Chinese Buddhist manuscripts
ⓘ
Dunhuang ⓘ
surface form:
Dunhuang manuscripts
Japanese Buddhist temples ⓘ |
| primaryReligion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin |
South Asia
ⓘ
surface form:
Indian subcontinent
|
| scriptFamily | Brahmic scripts ⓘ |
| status |
no longer used for everyday writing
ⓘ
used liturgically in East Asian Buddhism ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Gupta Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Gupta period
circa 6th century CE ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Buddhist mantras
ⓘ
Buddhist texts ⓘ mandala inscriptions ⓘ ritual inscriptions ⓘ seed syllables (bija) ⓘ writing Sanskrit ⓘ |
| usedIn |
China
ⓘ
East Asia ⓘ India ⓘ Japan ⓘ Korea ⓘ |
| writingMedium |
palm-leaf manuscripts
ⓘ
paper manuscripts ⓘ stone inscriptions ⓘ |
| writingSystemFor |
Sanskrit
ⓘ
surface form:
Sanskrit language
|
| writingSystemType | consonant-based abugida ⓘ |
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: Siddham script Description of subject: Siddham script is an ancient Indian writing system derived from Brahmi, historically used for recording Sanskrit Buddhist texts and mantras, especially in East Asia.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Siddhamātṛkā script