Cypriot Syllabary block
E454590
The Cypriot Syllabary block is a range of Unicode characters representing the ancient syllabic writing system used on Cyprus for writing Greek and other languages.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cypriot Syllabary block canonical | 3 |
| Cypriot syllabary | 1 |
| Cypriot_Syllabary | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4575345 — 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: Cypriot Syllabary block Context triple: [Supplementary Multilingual Plane, contains, Cypriot Syllabary block]
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A.
Cyrillic Extended-B
Cyrillic Extended-B is a Unicode block that contains additional Cyrillic characters used for writing various minority and historic languages that employ the Cyrillic script.
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B.
Cyrillic Extended-A
Cyrillic Extended-A is a Unicode block that adds additional Cyrillic characters used for various minority and historic languages beyond those covered by the basic Cyrillic block.
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C.
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin-1 Supplement is a Unicode block that extends the basic Latin script with additional characters, including accented letters and symbols used in many Western European languages.
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D.
Mediterranean alphabet
The Mediterranean alphabet is a historical family of writing systems used around the Mediterranean basin that evolved from the Phoenician script and gave rise to several ancient alphabets, including Greek, Etruscan, and Latin.
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E.
Syriac alphabet
The Syriac alphabet is a historical Semitic writing system used primarily for the Syriac language and Christian liturgical texts, derived from earlier Aramaic 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: Cypriot Syllabary block Target entity description: The Cypriot Syllabary block is a range of Unicode characters representing the ancient syllabic writing system used on Cyprus for writing Greek and other languages.
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A.
Cyrillic Extended-B
Cyrillic Extended-B is a Unicode block that contains additional Cyrillic characters used for writing various minority and historic languages that employ the Cyrillic script.
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B.
Cyrillic Extended-A
Cyrillic Extended-A is a Unicode block that adds additional Cyrillic characters used for various minority and historic languages beyond those covered by the basic Cyrillic block.
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C.
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin-1 Supplement is a Unicode block that extends the basic Latin script with additional characters, including accented letters and symbols used in many Western European languages.
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D.
Mediterranean alphabet
The Mediterranean alphabet is a historical family of writing systems used around the Mediterranean basin that evolved from the Phoenician script and gave rise to several ancient alphabets, including Greek, Etruscan, and Latin.
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E.
Syriac alphabet
The Syriac alphabet is a historical Semitic writing system used primarily for the Syriac language and Christian liturgical texts, derived from earlier Aramaic scripts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Unicode block ⓘ |
| blockRangeEnd | U+1083F ⓘ |
| blockRangeStart | U+10800 ⓘ |
| category | historic script block ⓘ |
| containsCharactersFor |
Cypriot syllabic signs
ⓘ
Cypriot word ligatures ⓘ |
| definedInVersion | Unicode 4.0 ⓘ |
| documentationReference |
Unicode Standard, Chapter on Historic Scripts
ⓘ
linked to:
Unicode Standard
|
| encodingPurpose | digital representation of Cypriot syllabary inscriptions ⓘ |
| geographicUsageRegion | Cyprus ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
Cypriot_Syllabary
ⓘ
linked to:
Cypriot Syllabary block
|
| hasCodePointCount | 64 ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Unicode Consortium ⓘ |
| name |
Cypriot Syllabary
ⓘ
linked to:
Cypro-Minoan script
|
| plane | Supplementary Multilingual Plane ⓘ |
| primaryUse | scholarly and encoding of historical texts ⓘ |
| relatedScript | Greek script ⓘ |
| script |
Cypriot syllabary
ⓘ
linked to:
Cypro-Minoan script
|
| scriptDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| standard | Unicode ⓘ |
| unicodeRangeHex | 10800–1083F ⓘ |
| usageStatus | not in modern everyday use ⓘ |
| usedForLanguage |
Eteocypriot
ⓘ
Greek ⓘ |
| writingSystemEra | ancient ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | syllabary ⓘ |
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: Cypriot Syllabary block Description of subject: The Cypriot Syllabary block is a range of Unicode characters representing the ancient syllabic writing system used on Cyprus for writing Greek and other languages.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cypriot Syllabary block
linked to: Cypriot Syllabary block