Shavian block
E453709
The Shavian block is a range of Unicode characters used to represent the Shavian alphabet, a phonetic writing system designed for English.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shavian block canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4575341 — 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: Shavian block Context triple: [Supplementary Multilingual Plane, contains, Shavian block]
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A.
Gothic alphabet
The Gothic alphabet is an ancient script devised in the 4th century by the bishop Ulfilas to write the Gothic language, primarily for translating the Bible for the Gothic people.
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B.
Ogham script
Ogham script is an early medieval alphabet primarily used to write the early Irish language, consisting of linear strokes carved along the edges of stones and wood.
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C.
Cham script
The Cham script is an abugida used historically and presently by the Cham people of Southeast Asia to write the Cham language, derived from and closely related to other Indic-derived scripts of the region.
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D.
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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E.
Urdos
Urdos is a small commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of southwestern France, situated in the Pyrenees near the Spanish border.
- 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: Shavian block Target entity description: The Shavian block is a range of Unicode characters used to represent the Shavian alphabet, a phonetic writing system designed for English.
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A.
Gothic alphabet
The Gothic alphabet is an ancient script devised in the 4th century by the bishop Ulfilas to write the Gothic language, primarily for translating the Bible for the Gothic people.
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B.
Ogham script
Ogham script is an early medieval alphabet primarily used to write the early Irish language, consisting of linear strokes carved along the edges of stones and wood.
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C.
Cham script
The Cham script is an abugida used historically and presently by the Cham people of Southeast Asia to write the Cham language, derived from and closely related to other Indic-derived scripts of the region.
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D.
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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E.
Urdos
Urdos is a small commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of southwestern France, situated in the Pyrenees near the Spanish border.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Unicode block
ⓘ
character encoding range ⓘ |
| category | alphabetic script block ⓘ |
| codePointRangeEnd | U+1047F ⓘ |
| codePointRangeStart | U+10450 ⓘ |
| contains |
letters of the Shavian alphabet
ⓘ
punctuation marks for Shavian ⓘ |
| definedBy | Unicode Consortium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedForOrthographicReform | English spelling reform ⓘ |
| encodingStandard | Unicode NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlias | Shavian Unicode block NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasScriptProperty | Shavian ⓘ |
| hasTotalCodePoints | 48 ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeRangeNotation | U+10450–U+1047F ⓘ |
| introducedInUnicodeVersion | 4.0 ⓘ |
| isSupplementaryBlock | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Shavian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Unicode Standard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plane | Supplementary Multilingual Plane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| planeNumber | 1 ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Deseret block
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shavian alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| script | Shavian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| unicodeBlockName | Shavian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Shavian alphabet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
phonetic writing of English ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Shavian alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | phonemic alphabet ⓘ |
| yearOfIntroduction | 2003 ⓘ |
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: Shavian block Description of subject: The Shavian block is a range of Unicode characters used to represent the Shavian alphabet, a phonetic writing system designed for English.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.