Adlam script
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The Adlam script is an alphabetic writing system created in the late 20th century to represent the Fulani (Fulfulde) language and promote literacy among its speakers in West Africa.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adlam script canonical | 4 |
| Adlam | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2712712 — 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: Adlam script Context triple: [Fulfulde, writingSystem, Adlam script]
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A.
Runic alphabet
The Runic alphabet is an ancient writing system used by Germanic peoples, primarily for inscriptions in early Germanic languages across Northern Europe and Scandinavia.
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B.
Tirhuta script
Tirhuta script is a traditional Brahmic writing system historically used for the Maithili language of the Mithila region in India and Nepal.
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C.
N'Ko script
N'Ko script is an indigenous alphabetic writing system created in 1949 by Solomana Kante for Manding languages of West Africa, such as Mandinka, Bambara, and Dyula.
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D.
Ruqʿah script
Ruqʿah script is a simple, highly legible Arabic handwriting style commonly used for everyday writing and official documents in the Arab world.
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E.
Oscan alphabet
The Oscan alphabet is an ancient writing system used by the Oscan-speaking peoples of pre-Roman Italy to record their language, derived from and closely related to other Old Italic scripts.
- 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: Adlam script Target entity description: The Adlam script is an alphabetic writing system created in the late 20th century to represent the Fulani (Fulfulde) language and promote literacy among its speakers in West Africa.
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A.
Runic alphabet
The Runic alphabet is an ancient writing system used by Germanic peoples, primarily for inscriptions in early Germanic languages across Northern Europe and Scandinavia.
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B.
Tirhuta script
Tirhuta script is a traditional Brahmic writing system historically used for the Maithili language of the Mithila region in India and Nepal.
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C.
N'Ko script
N'Ko script is an indigenous alphabetic writing system created in 1949 by Solomana Kante for Manding languages of West Africa, such as Mandinka, Bambara, and Dyula.
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D.
Ruqʿah script
Ruqʿah script is a simple, highly legible Arabic handwriting style commonly used for everyday writing and official documents in the Arab world.
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E.
Oscan alphabet
The Oscan alphabet is an ancient writing system used by the Oscan-speaking peoples of pre-Roman Italy to record their language, derived from and closely related to other Old Italic scripts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Adlam script Description of subject: The Adlam script is an alphabetic writing system created in the late 20th century to represent the Fulani (Fulfulde) language and promote literacy among its speakers in West Africa.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Adlam