Bengali script
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Bengali script is an abugida used across eastern South Asia to write languages such as Bengali and Assamese, derived from the ancient Brahmi script.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bengali script canonical | 14 |
| Bengali–Assamese script | 12 |
| Bengali-Assamese script | 9 |
| Assamese script | 8 |
| Assamese alphabet | 1 |
| Bangla script | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T189337 — 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: Bengali script Context triple: [Sanskrit, writingSystem, Bengali script]
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A.
Devanagari script
Devanagari script is an abugida writing system used for several major South Asian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit.
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B.
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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C.
Sharada script
The Sharada script is an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in the northwestern Indian subcontinent, especially in Kashmir, primarily for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri.
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D.
Grantha script
Grantha script is a historical South Indian writing system primarily used to record Sanskrit texts, especially in the Tamil-speaking regions.
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E.
Bengali
Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Bengal region of South Asia and serving as the official and most widely used language of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
- 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: Bengali script Target entity description: Bengali script is an abugida used across eastern South Asia to write languages such as Bengali and Assamese, derived from the ancient Brahmi script.
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A.
Devanagari script
Devanagari script is an abugida writing system used for several major South Asian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit.
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B.
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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C.
Sharada script
The Sharada script is an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in the northwestern Indian subcontinent, especially in Kashmir, primarily for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri.
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D.
Grantha script
Grantha script is a historical South Indian writing system primarily used to record Sanskrit texts, especially in the Tamil-speaking regions.
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E.
Bengali
Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Bengal region of South Asia and serving as the official and most widely used language of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (72)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brahmic script
ⓘ
abugida ⓘ writing system ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Brahmi script
ⓘ
Gupta script ⓘ Siddham script ⓘ |
| direction | left-to-right ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Bengali script
ⓘ
surface form:
Bangla script
Eastern Nagari script ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
ঁ
ⓘ
ং ⓘ ঃ ⓘ অ ⓘ আ ⓘ ই ⓘ উ ⓘ এ ⓘ ও ⓘ ক ⓘ খ ⓘ গ ⓘ চ ⓘ জ ⓘ ট ⓘ ড ⓘ ত ⓘ দ ⓘ প ⓘ ব ⓘ ম ⓘ য ⓘ র ⓘ ল ⓘ শ ⓘ ষ ⓘ স ⓘ হ ⓘ ্ ⓘ |
| hasDiacritics | vowel signs ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
conjunct consonant ligatures
ⓘ
inherent vowel /ɔ/ ⓘ no letter case distinction ⓘ virama sign called hôsônto (্) ⓘ vowel diacritics placed above, below, before, after consonants ⓘ |
| hasISO15924Code | Beng ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeBlock | Bengali (U+0980–U+09FF) ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Devanagari script
ⓘ
Odia script ⓘ Tirhuta script ⓘ |
| scriptFamily | Brahmic scripts ⓘ |
| timePeriod | developed around 11th century CE ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Assamese people
ⓘ
Bengali people ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Assamese language
ⓘ
Bengali language ⓘ Bishnupriya Manipuri language ⓘ Chakma language ⓘ Karbi language ⓘ Meitei language ⓘ Rohingya language ⓘ Sylheti language ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
ⓘ
Assam ⓘ People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ
surface form:
Bangladesh
India ⓘ Jharkhand ⓘ Manipur ⓘ Meghalaya ⓘ Mizoram ⓘ Tripura ⓘ West Bengal ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | 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: Bengali script Description of subject: Bengali script is an abugida used across eastern South Asia to write languages such as Bengali and Assamese, derived from the ancient Brahmi script.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bengali–Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali-Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bangla script
this entity surface form:
Bengali-Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali–Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali–Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali–Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali–Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali–Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali–Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali-Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali-Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali-Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali–Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali–Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali-Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali-Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali–Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Assamese alphabet
this entity surface form:
Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali–Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali-Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali-Assamese script
this entity surface form:
Bengali–Assamese script