Mahajani script
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The Mahajani script is a historical North Indian mercantile writing system once widely used by traders and accountants, particularly for languages like Marwari and Hindi.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mahajani script canonical | 5 |
| Mahajani-type script | 1 |
| Multani script | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2737832 — 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: Mahajani script Context triple: [Marwari, writingSystem, Mahajani script]
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A.
Madnhaya script
The Madnhaya script is a modern cursive form of the Syriac alphabet used primarily by Assyrian and Chaldean Christian communities in liturgical and literary contexts.
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B.
Shahmukhi script
Shahmukhi script is a Perso-Arabic–based writing system primarily used for writing the Punjabi language in Pakistan.
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C.
Kaithi script
The Kaithi script is a historical Brahmic writing system of northern India that was widely used for administrative and literary purposes in several Indo-Aryan languages, including Bhojpuri.
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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.
Diwani script
Diwani script is an ornate Ottoman-era style of Arabic calligraphy characterized by its intricate, flowing lines and dense, decorative composition often used in royal decrees and official documents.
- 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: Mahajani script Target entity description: The Mahajani script is a historical North Indian mercantile writing system once widely used by traders and accountants, particularly for languages like Marwari and Hindi.
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A.
Madnhaya script
The Madnhaya script is a modern cursive form of the Syriac alphabet used primarily by Assyrian and Chaldean Christian communities in liturgical and literary contexts.
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B.
Shahmukhi script
Shahmukhi script is a Perso-Arabic–based writing system primarily used for writing the Punjabi language in Pakistan.
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C.
Kaithi script
The Kaithi script is a historical Brahmic writing system of northern India that was widely used for administrative and literary purposes in several Indo-Aryan languages, including Bhojpuri.
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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.
Diwani script
Diwani script is an ornate Ottoman-era style of Arabic calligraphy characterized by its intricate, flowing lines and dense, decorative composition often used in royal decrees and official documents.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brahmic script
ⓘ
abugida ⓘ historical script ⓘ |
| addedToUnicodeVersion | Unicode 7.0 ⓘ |
| currentUse | limited scholarly use ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Landa scripts
ⓘ
surface form:
Landa script
|
| hasCharacterCategory |
consonants
ⓘ
digits ⓘ independent vowels ⓘ punctuation marks ⓘ vowel signs ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
abbreviated vowel notation
ⓘ
ligatures for common merchant terms ⓘ specialized numeric signs ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeBlock | Mahajani ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
19th century
ⓘ
early 20th century ⓘ early modern period ⓘ |
| ISO15924Code | Mahj ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
accounting
ⓘ
business correspondence ⓘ merchant records ⓘ |
| region |
Haryana
ⓘ
northern India ⓘ
surface form:
North India
Punjab ⓘ
surface form:
Punjab region
Rajasthan ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Gurmukhi
ⓘ
surface form:
Gurmukhi script
Khudabadi script ⓘ Multani script ⓘ |
| scriptFamily |
Brahmic scripts
ⓘ
surface form:
Brahmic
|
| status | historical ⓘ |
| typicalUsers |
accountants
ⓘ
shopkeepers ⓘ traders ⓘ |
| UnicodeBlockRange | U+11150–U+1117F ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Haryanvi language
ⓘ
Hindi language ⓘ Marwari language ⓘ Punjabi language ⓘ bahi-khata (account books) ⓘ various North Indian languages ⓘ |
| usedIn |
commercial documents
ⓘ
inventory lists ⓘ loan records ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| writingMedium |
account ledgers
ⓘ
paper ⓘ |
| 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: Mahajani script Description of subject: The Mahajani script is a historical North Indian mercantile writing system once widely used by traders and accountants, particularly for languages like Marwari and Hindi.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Multani script
this entity surface form:
Mahajani-type script