Kana Supplement block
E453716
The Kana Supplement block is a range of Unicode characters that provides additional Japanese kana symbols beyond those in the main Hiragana and Katakana blocks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kana Supplement block canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4575362 — 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: Kana Supplement block Context triple: [Supplementary Multilingual Plane, contains, Kana Supplement block]
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A.
Cyrillic Supplement block
The Cyrillic Supplement block is a range of Unicode code points that provides additional Cyrillic characters not included in the main Cyrillic block, supporting extended orthographies and scholarly usage.
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B.
Kana
Kana is the Japanese syllabic writing system comprising hiragana and katakana, used to represent native words, grammatical elements, and foreign terms.
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C.
Supplementary Ideographic Plane
The Supplementary Ideographic Plane is a Unicode plane that contains additional CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographic characters beyond those in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
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D.
Katakana
Katakana is one of the two main Japanese phonetic writing systems, primarily used for foreign words, onomatopoeia, emphasis, and technical or scientific terms.
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E.
Hangul Jamo Extended-B
Hangul Jamo Extended-B is a Unicode block that contains additional archaic and rare Hangul jamo characters used for scholarly and historical representation of Korean script.
- 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: Kana Supplement block Target entity description: The Kana Supplement block is a range of Unicode characters that provides additional Japanese kana symbols beyond those in the main Hiragana and Katakana blocks.
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A.
Cyrillic Supplement block
The Cyrillic Supplement block is a range of Unicode code points that provides additional Cyrillic characters not included in the main Cyrillic block, supporting extended orthographies and scholarly usage.
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B.
Kana
Kana is the Japanese syllabic writing system comprising hiragana and katakana, used to represent native words, grammatical elements, and foreign terms.
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C.
Supplementary Ideographic Plane
The Supplementary Ideographic Plane is a Unicode plane that contains additional CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographic characters beyond those in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
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D.
Katakana
Katakana is one of the two main Japanese phonetic writing systems, primarily used for foreign words, onomatopoeia, emphasis, and technical or scientific terms.
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E.
Hangul Jamo Extended-B
Hangul Jamo Extended-B is a Unicode block that contains additional archaic and rare Hangul jamo characters used for scholarly and historical representation of Korean script.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Unicode block ⓘ |
| assignedInUnicodeVersion |
Unicode 6.0
ⓘ
linked to:
Unicode Standard version 6.0
|
| blockRangeEnd | U+1B0FF ⓘ |
| blockRangeStart | U+1B000 ⓘ |
| blockType | alphabetic ⓘ |
| contains |
Hiragana letters
ⓘ
Katakana letters ⓘ archaic kana characters ⓘ phonetic extensions of kana ⓘ |
| containsCharacterType |
archaic kana letters
ⓘ
phonetic kana extensions ⓘ small kana letters ⓘ |
| encodingSystem | Unicode ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
Kana_Sup
ⓘ
linked to:
Kana Supplement
|
| hasCodePointPlane | Supplementary Multilingual Plane ⓘ |
| hasGeneralCategory | Letter ⓘ |
| notationSystem | syllabary ⓘ |
| partOfStandard | Unicode Standard ⓘ |
| relatedBlock |
Hiragana
ⓘ
Kana Extended-A ⓘ Kana Extended-B ⓘ Katakana ⓘ Katakana Phonetic Extensions ⓘ Small Kana Extension ⓘ |
| script | Japanese ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | Unicode Consortium ⓘ |
| unicodeBlockName | Kana Supplement ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Japanese writing
ⓘ
historical Japanese orthography ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage |
Japanese
ⓘ
Ryukyuan languages ⓘ |
| writingSystem | kana ⓘ |
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: Kana Supplement block Description of subject: The Kana Supplement block is a range of Unicode characters that provides additional Japanese kana symbols beyond those in the main Hiragana and Katakana blocks.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.