Inscriptional Pahlavi block
E454591
Inscriptional Pahlavi block is a Unicode block that encodes characters used for writing the ancient Middle Persian Inscriptional Pahlavi script.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Inscriptional Pahlavi | 3 |
| Inscriptional Pahlavi block canonical | 1 |
| Inscriptional Pahlavi script | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4575356 — 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: Inscriptional Pahlavi block Context triple: [Supplementary Multilingual Plane, contains, Inscriptional Pahlavi block]
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A.
Avestan script
The Avestan script is an ancient writing system developed to record the sacred Zoroastrian texts in the Avestan language and related early Iranian languages.
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B.
Pahlavi script
Pahlavi script is an ancient writing system used primarily for Middle Persian, serving as the official script of the Sasanian Empire and Zoroastrian religious texts.
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C.
Inscriptional Parthian block
The Inscriptional Parthian block is a Unicode range that encodes the historic Parthian script used in ancient inscriptions from the Parthian Empire.
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D.
Khudabadi script
The Khudabadi script is a historical writing system used primarily by Sindhi-speaking merchant communities of the Indian subcontinent for commercial and everyday purposes.
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E.
Nuskhuri script
The Nuskhuri script is a medieval ecclesiastical form of the Georgian alphabet used primarily in religious manuscripts and liturgical texts.
- 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: Inscriptional Pahlavi block Target entity description: Inscriptional Pahlavi block is a Unicode block that encodes characters used for writing the ancient Middle Persian Inscriptional Pahlavi script.
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A.
Avestan script
The Avestan script is an ancient writing system developed to record the sacred Zoroastrian texts in the Avestan language and related early Iranian languages.
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B.
Pahlavi script
Pahlavi script is an ancient writing system used primarily for Middle Persian, serving as the official script of the Sasanian Empire and Zoroastrian religious texts.
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C.
Inscriptional Parthian block
The Inscriptional Parthian block is a Unicode range that encodes the historic Parthian script used in ancient inscriptions from the Parthian Empire.
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D.
Khudabadi script
The Khudabadi script is a historical writing system used primarily by Sindhi-speaking merchant communities of the Indian subcontinent for commercial and everyday purposes.
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E.
Nuskhuri script
The Nuskhuri script is a medieval ecclesiastical form of the Georgian alphabet used primarily in religious manuscripts and liturgical texts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Unicode block ⓘ |
| belongsToStandardCategory | Middle Eastern scripts ⓘ |
| blockCategory | historic script ⓘ |
| blockName | Inscriptional Pahlavi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| codePointRangeEnd | U+10B7F ⓘ |
| codePointRangeStart | U+10B60 ⓘ |
| containsCharactersOfType |
letters
ⓘ
numbers ⓘ punctuation ⓘ |
| containsDistinctCharactersFor |
consonants
ⓘ
numbers ⓘ word dividers ⓘ |
| definedInStandard | The Unicode Standard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| digitalRepresentationOf | Inscriptional Pahlavi script ⓘ |
| encodingPurpose | epigraphic Middle Persian texts ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | Inscriptional_Pahlavi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasScriptProperty | Inscriptional_Pahlavi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeBlockProperty | Block=Inscriptional_Pahlavi ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeRangeNotation | 10B60–10B7F ⓘ |
| introducedInUnicodeVersion | Unicode 5.2 ⓘ |
| plane | Supplementary Multilingual Plane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedUnicodeBlock |
Book Pahlavi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Psalter Pahlavi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| script | Inscriptional Pahlavi script ⓘ |
| scriptAge | ancient ⓘ |
| scriptType | Middle Persian script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | Unicode Consortium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usageStatus | historic ⓘ |
| usedFor | ancient Middle Persian inscriptions ⓘ |
| usedInEmpire |
Parthian Empire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sasanian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInRegion | ancient Iran ⓘ |
| writingDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| writingSystemFamily | Pahlavi scripts ⓘ |
| writingSystemFor | Middle Persian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Inscriptional Pahlavi block Description of subject: Inscriptional Pahlavi block is a Unicode block that encodes characters used for writing the ancient Middle Persian Inscriptional Pahlavi script.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Middle Persian
this entity surface form:
Inscriptional Pahlavi script
this entity surface form:
Inscriptional Pahlavi
this entity surface form:
Inscriptional Pahlavi
this entity surface form:
Inscriptional Pahlavi