Sorabe script
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The Sorabe script is an Arabic-derived writing system historically used by Malagasy speakers, particularly in southern Madagascar, for religious, literary, and administrative texts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sorabe script canonical | 2 |
| Arwi script | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5612763 — 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: Sorabe script Context triple: [Malagasy, previousWritingSystem, Sorabe script]
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A.
Kawi script
Kawi script is an ancient Brahmic-derived writing system historically used across Java and other parts of Southeast Asia to write Old Javanese and related languages.
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B.
Lontara script
The Lontara script is an indigenous writing system traditionally used by the Bugis and Makassarese peoples of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, to write their Austronesian languages.
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C.
Siddham script
Siddham script is an ancient Indian writing system derived from Brahmi, historically used for recording Sanskrit Buddhist texts and mantras, especially in East Asia.
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D.
Borama script
The Borama script is an indigenous writing system historically used by some Somali communities to represent the Somali language before the adoption of more widespread scripts.
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E.
Jurchen script
The Jurchen script was a writing system developed by the Jurchen people to record their Tungusic language, used primarily during the Jin dynasty in northern China.
- 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: Sorabe script Target entity description: The Sorabe script is an Arabic-derived writing system historically used by Malagasy speakers, particularly in southern Madagascar, for religious, literary, and administrative texts.
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A.
Kawi script
Kawi script is an ancient Brahmic-derived writing system historically used across Java and other parts of Southeast Asia to write Old Javanese and related languages.
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B.
Lontara script
The Lontara script is an indigenous writing system traditionally used by the Bugis and Makassarese peoples of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, to write their Austronesian languages.
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C.
Siddham script
Siddham script is an ancient Indian writing system derived from Brahmi, historically used for recording Sanskrit Buddhist texts and mantras, especially in East Asia.
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D.
Borama script
The Borama script is an indigenous writing system historically used by some Somali communities to represent the Somali language before the adoption of more widespread scripts.
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E.
Jurchen script
The Jurchen script was a writing system developed by the Jurchen people to record their Tungusic language, used primarily during the Jin dynasty in northern China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arabic-derived script
ⓘ
writing system ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion | Islam ⓘ |
| country | Madagascar ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
source for early written records of Malagasy history
ⓘ
symbol of Islamic scholarship in Madagascar ⓘ |
| currentUsageStatus | limited contemporary use ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Arabic script
ⓘ
linked to:
Arabic alphabet
|
| etymology | name sometimes glossed as “large writings” or “important writings” in Malagasy tradition ⓘ |
| glottographicType | segmental script ⓘ |
| hasManuscriptTradition | Antemoro manuscripts ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | Sorabe (Malagasy) ⓘ |
| hasPhoneticAdaptation | adapted to Malagasy phonology ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeStatus | not yet encoded as a separate Unicode script (as of 2024) ⓘ |
| hasVowelNotation |
supplements with additional signs for Malagasy vowels
ⓘ
uses Arabic vowel diacritics ⓘ |
| hasWritingMedium |
manuscripts
ⓘ
paper ⓘ parchment ⓘ |
| historicalUsageStatus | historical script ⓘ |
| linguisticFunction | representation of Malagasy lexicon in Arabic-based characters ⓘ |
| orthographicFeature |
modified Arabic letters for Malagasy consonants
ⓘ
use of dots and additional marks to distinguish sounds ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Ajami scripts
ⓘ
linked to:
Ajami
Arabic-based African scripts ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Latin alphabet for Malagasy ⓘ |
| scriptClass | Brahmic–Arabic contact-influenced script ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| status | not the official script of Madagascar ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early modern period ⓘ |
| transliterationTarget | Latin script ⓘ |
| usedBy | Malagasy speakers ⓘ |
| usedByEthnicGroup |
Antemoro people
ⓘ
other southern Malagasy groups ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administrative texts
ⓘ
legal documents ⓘ literary texts ⓘ religious texts ⓘ |
| usedForGenre |
astrological texts
ⓘ
genealogies ⓘ historical chronicles ⓘ |
| usedForLanguage | Malagasy language ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Madagascar
ⓘ
southern Madagascar ⓘ |
| writingSystemFamily | Arabic script family ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | consonant-based script ⓘ |
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: Sorabe script Description of subject: The Sorabe script is an Arabic-derived writing system historically used by Malagasy speakers, particularly in southern Madagascar, for religious, literary, and administrative texts.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sorabe script