Prakrit
E51274
Prakrit is a group of ancient Middle Indo-Aryan languages historically used in religious and literary texts, especially in Jain, Buddhist, and early Hindu traditions.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Prakrit canonical | 22 |
| Prakrit languages | 5 |
| Prakrit language | 1 |
| Prakrits | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T407472 — 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: Prakrit Context triple: [Jainism, scriptureLanguage, Prakrit]
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A.
Magadhi Prakrit
Magadhi Prakrit is an ancient Middle Indo-Aryan language of eastern India that served as a major linguistic ancestor to several modern languages of the region, including Bengali.
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B.
Gandhari Prakrit
Gandhari Prakrit is an ancient Middle Indo-Aryan language of northwestern South Asia, known from Buddhist texts and inscriptions written in the Kharoṣṭhī script.
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C.
Maharashtri Prakrit
Maharashtri Prakrit is an ancient Middle Indo-Aryan language historically used in western and central India, especially in classical poetry and drama, and is a key ancestor of several modern Indo-Aryan languages.
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D.
Sanskrit
Sanskrit is an ancient Indo-Aryan language of India, foundational to Hindu religious texts and classical Indian literature, and a key source for many modern South Asian languages.
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E.
Sanskritized Prakrits
Sanskritized Prakrits are Middle Indo-Aryan vernacular languages or dialects that have been heavily influenced and refined by Sanskrit in their vocabulary, grammar, and literary style.
- 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: Prakrit Target entity description: Prakrit is a group of ancient Middle Indo-Aryan languages historically used in religious and literary texts, especially in Jain, Buddhist, and early Hindu traditions.
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A.
Magadhi Prakrit
Magadhi Prakrit is an ancient Middle Indo-Aryan language of eastern India that served as a major linguistic ancestor to several modern languages of the region, including Bengali.
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B.
Gandhari Prakrit
Gandhari Prakrit is an ancient Middle Indo-Aryan language of northwestern South Asia, known from Buddhist texts and inscriptions written in the Kharoṣṭhī script.
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C.
Maharashtri Prakrit
Maharashtri Prakrit is an ancient Middle Indo-Aryan language historically used in western and central India, especially in classical poetry and drama, and is a key ancestor of several modern Indo-Aryan languages.
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D.
Sanskrit
Sanskrit is an ancient Indo-Aryan language of India, foundational to Hindu religious texts and classical Indian literature, and a key source for many modern South Asian languages.
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E.
Sanskritized Prakrits
Sanskritized Prakrits are Middle Indo-Aryan vernacular languages or dialects that have been heavily influenced and refined by Sanskrit in their vocabulary, grammar, and literary style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Middle Indo-Aryan language
ⓘ
ancient language ⓘ group of languages ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Hinduism ⓘ Jainism ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
simplified morphology compared to Sanskrit
ⓘ
simplified phonology compared to Sanskrit ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Sanskrit
ⓘ
surface form:
Classical Sanskrit
|
| follows |
Old Indo-Aryan
ⓘ
Sanskrit ⓘ
surface form:
Vedic Sanskrit
|
| hasVariety |
Ardhamagadhi Prakrit
ⓘ
Jain Maharashtri ⓘ Ardhamagadhi Prakrit ⓘ
surface form:
Jain Prakrit
Shauraseni Prakrit ⓘ
surface form:
Jain Shauraseni
Magadhi Prakrit ⓘ Maharashtri Prakrit ⓘ Paisaci Prakrit ⓘ Shauraseni Prakrit ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bihari languages
ⓘ
Gujarati ⓘ Hindi ⓘ Marathi ⓘ Rajasthani ⓘ other modern Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ |
| linguisticStageOf |
Indo-Aryan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-Aryan language continuum
|
| precedes |
Apabhramsha
ⓘ
surface form:
Apabhraṃśa
Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
surface form:
New Indo-Aryan languages
|
| subclassOf |
Indo-Aryan languages
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Buddhist monks
ⓘ
Jain monks ⓘ classical Indian dramatists ⓘ |
| usedFor |
drama
ⓘ
inscriptions ⓘ literary texts ⓘ poetry ⓘ religious texts ⓘ |
| usedIn |
South Asia
ⓘ
ancient India ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod |
Middle Indo-Aryan
ⓘ
surface form:
Middle Indo-Aryan period
circa 3rd century BCE to 4th century CE ⓘ |
| usedInTextType |
Buddhist texts
ⓘ
Jain canonical literature ⓘ early Hindu texts ⓘ |
| usedInWork |
Gaha Sattasai (Gāthā Saptashatī)
ⓘ
Agamas ⓘ
surface form:
Jain Agamas
early inscriptions of Indian subcontinent ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Brahmi script
ⓘ
Kharoṣṭhī script ⓘ
surface form:
Kharosthi script
various regional scripts ⓘ |
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: Prakrit Description of subject: Prakrit is a group of ancient Middle Indo-Aryan languages historically used in religious and literary texts, especially in Jain, Buddhist, and early Hindu traditions.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Prakrit languages
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Prakrit language
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Prakrits
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Prakrit languages
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Prakrit languages
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Prakrit languages
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Prakrit languages