Old Uyghur alphabet
E172144
The Old Uyghur alphabet is an early Turkic writing system used by the Uyghur people, derived from Middle Iranian scripts and influential in the development of later scripts such as Mongolian.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Uyghur script | 8 |
| Old Uyghur alphabet canonical | 5 |
| Old Uyghur | 3 |
| Old Uyghur language | 2 |
| Uyghur script | 2 |
| Uyghur scribes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1472717 — 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 Uyghur alphabet Context triple: [Aramaic alphabet, ancestorOf, Old Uyghur alphabet]
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A.
Uyghur Arabic alphabet
The Uyghur Arabic alphabet is a Perso-Arabic–based script adapted to represent the sounds of the Uyghur language, historically used by Uyghur communities in Central Asia.
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B.
Old Turkic script
The Old Turkic script is an ancient runiform alphabet used by early Turkic peoples to write the earliest known Turkic inscriptions across Central Asia.
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C.
Kazakh Arabic alphabet
The Kazakh Arabic alphabet is a modified version of the Arabic script historically used to write the Kazakh language, particularly before the adoption of Cyrillic and Latin-based alphabets.
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D.
Sogdian alphabet
The Sogdian alphabet is an ancient Middle Iranian script used by the Sogdian people of Central Asia, notable for its role in transmitting religious and commercial texts along the Silk Road and for influencing later writing systems such as the Old Uyghur and Mongolian scripts.
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E.
Classical Mongolian script
Classical Mongolian script is the historic vertical writing system used for the Mongolian language, derived from the Old Uyghur alphabet and still employed in Inner Mongolia today.
- 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 Uyghur alphabet Target entity description: The Old Uyghur alphabet is an early Turkic writing system used by the Uyghur people, derived from Middle Iranian scripts and influential in the development of later scripts such as Mongolian.
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A.
Uyghur Arabic alphabet
The Uyghur Arabic alphabet is a Perso-Arabic–based script adapted to represent the sounds of the Uyghur language, historically used by Uyghur communities in Central Asia.
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B.
Old Turkic script
The Old Turkic script is an ancient runiform alphabet used by early Turkic peoples to write the earliest known Turkic inscriptions across Central Asia.
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C.
Kazakh Arabic alphabet
The Kazakh Arabic alphabet is a modified version of the Arabic script historically used to write the Kazakh language, particularly before the adoption of Cyrillic and Latin-based alphabets.
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D.
Sogdian alphabet
The Sogdian alphabet is an ancient Middle Iranian script used by the Sogdian people of Central Asia, notable for its role in transmitting religious and commercial texts along the Silk Road and for influencing later writing systems such as the Old Uyghur and Mongolian scripts.
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E.
Classical Mongolian script
Classical Mongolian script is the historic vertical writing system used for the Mongolian language, derived from the Old Uyghur alphabet and still employed in Inner Mongolia today.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abjad
ⓘ
alphabet ⓘ writing system ⓘ |
| associatedPeople |
Uyghurs
ⓘ
surface form:
Qocho Uyghurs
Uyghur Khaganate ⓘ |
| associatedReligion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Manichaeism ⓘ Nestorianism ⓘ
surface form:
Nestorian Christianity
|
| derivedFrom | Sogdian alphabet ⓘ |
| directionOfWriting |
left-to-right (in column order)
ⓘ
top-to-bottom ⓘ vertical ⓘ |
| hasCharacterSetSize | 22 letters (approximate) ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | extinct script ⓘ |
| influenced |
Classical Mongolian script
ⓘ
Clear script (Todo script) ⓘ
surface form:
Clear Script (Todo)
Manchu script ⓘ Classical Mongolian script ⓘ
surface form:
Old Mongolian script
|
| iso15924Code | Ougr ⓘ |
| region |
Central Asia
ⓘ
Tarim Basin ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Syriac alphabet ⓘ |
| scriptDirectionOrigin | rotated from right-to-left horizontal to vertical ⓘ |
| scriptFamily | Middle Iranian scripts ⓘ |
| scriptLineage |
Aramaic alphabet (historically)
ⓘ
surface form:
Aramaic alphabet
Sogdian alphabet ⓘ Syriac alphabet ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
10th century
ⓘ
11th century ⓘ 12th century ⓘ 13th century ⓘ 14th century ⓘ 8th century ⓘ 9th century ⓘ |
| unicodeBlock |
Old Uyghur alphabet
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Old Uyghur
|
| unicodeStandardVersion | Unicode 13.0 ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Turkic peoples
ⓘ
Uyghurs ⓘ
surface form:
Uyghur people
|
| usedFor |
administrative documents
ⓘ
literary works ⓘ religious texts ⓘ |
| writingMedium |
manuscripts
ⓘ
paper documents ⓘ wooden documents ⓘ |
| writingSystemOf |
Old Uyghur alphabet
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Old Uyghur language
|
| writingSystemScope | historical ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | consonantal 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 Uyghur alphabet Description of subject: The Old Uyghur alphabet is an early Turkic writing system used by the Uyghur people, derived from Middle Iranian scripts and influential in the development of later scripts such as Mongolian.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Aramaic alphabet
this entity surface form:
Old Uyghur script
this entity surface form:
Uyghur script
this entity surface form:
Old Uyghur script
this entity surface form:
Old Uyghur script
this entity surface form:
Old Uyghur script
this entity surface form:
Old Uyghur script
this entity surface form:
Old Uyghur script
this entity surface form:
Old Uyghur language
this entity surface form:
Uyghur scribes
this entity surface form:
Old Uyghur
this entity surface form:
Old Uyghur language
this entity surface form:
Old Uyghur
this entity surface form:
Uyghur script
this entity surface form:
Old Uyghur script
this entity surface form:
Old Uyghur
this entity surface form:
Old Uyghur script