Devanagari script
E6056
Devanagari script is an abugida writing system used for several major South Asian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Devanagari | 138 |
| Devanagari script canonical | 116 |
| Devanagari (commonly used) | 1 |
| Devanagari (in later written tradition) | 1 |
| Devanagari alphabet | 1 |
| Devanagari numeral system | 1 |
| Devanagari script (in Hindi) | 1 |
| Devanāgarī (in most modern editions) | 1 |
| Jain Devanagari | 1 |
| Nāgarī script | 1 |
| Sindhi-Devanagari script | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T28302 — 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: Devanagari script Context triple: [Indo-European language family, writingSystemsInclude, Devanagari script]
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A.
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script is an alphabetic writing system used for many Slavic and other Eurasian languages, including Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.
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B.
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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C.
Vietnamese alphabet
The Vietnamese alphabet is a modern Latin-based writing system that uses additional diacritics to represent the tones and specific sounds of the Vietnamese language.
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D.
Hiragana
Hiragana is a Japanese phonetic syllabary used primarily for native words, grammatical elements, and beginners’ reading and writing.
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E.
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet is the writing system originally used for Latin that has become the most widely adopted script in the world, forming the basis of many modern languages including English, Spanish, and French.
- 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: Devanagari script Target entity description: Devanagari script is an abugida writing system used for several major South Asian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit.
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A.
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script is an alphabetic writing system used for many Slavic and other Eurasian languages, including Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.
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B.
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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C.
Perso-Arabic script
The Perso-Arabic script is a modified form of the Arabic writing system, expanded with additional letters and conventions to represent the sounds of Persian and several other languages across the Middle East and South Asia.
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D.
Hindi
Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language widely spoken across northern and central India and used in government, education, media, and popular culture.
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E.
Vietnamese alphabet
The Vietnamese alphabet is a modern Latin-based writing system that uses additional diacritics to represent the tones and specific sounds of the Vietnamese language.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abugida
ⓘ
writing system ⓘ |
| associatedReligion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Hinduism ⓘ Jainism ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Brahmi script
ⓘ
surface form:
Gupta script
Nagari script ⓘ |
| direction | left-to-right ⓘ |
| hasApproximateLetterCount | 47 basic characters ⓘ |
| hasConsonantCount | 33 consonants (traditional count) ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
conjunct consonant ligatures
ⓘ
distinct signs for anusvara and visarga ⓘ horizontal headline (shirorekha) ⓘ inherent vowel /a/ in consonant letters ⓘ use of virama (halant) to suppress inherent vowel ⓘ use of vowel diacritics (matras) ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeBlock |
Devanagari script
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Devanagari
Devanagari Extended ⓘ Devanagari Extended-A ⓘ |
| hasVowelCount | 14 vowels (traditional count) ⓘ |
| hasVowelLetters | independent vowels ⓘ |
| hasVowelSigns | dependent vowel signs ⓘ |
| historicalUsage | Classical Sanskrit texts ⓘ |
| ISO15924Code | Deva ⓘ |
| primaryUsageRegion |
Bhutan
ⓘ
Fiji ⓘ India ⓘ Nepal ⓘ |
| scriptFamily | Brahmic scripts ⓘ |
| standardFormOf |
Modern Hindi orthography
ⓘ
Modern Marathi orthography ⓘ Standard Nepali orthography ⓘ |
| usedForLanguage |
Bodo
ⓘ
Dogri ⓘ Hindi ⓘ Konkani ⓘ Maithili ⓘ Marathi ⓘ Nepali ⓘ Sanskrit ⓘ Sanskritized Prakrits ⓘ Santhali ⓘ Sindhi ⓘ |
| usedForLanguageFamily |
Indo-Aryan languages
ⓘ
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| writingDirection | horizontal ⓘ |
| writingSystemScope | used in South Asia ⓘ |
| writingSystemStatus |
official script of Hindi in India
ⓘ
official script of Marathi in Maharashtra, India ⓘ official script of Nepali in Nepal ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | alphasyllabary ⓘ |
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: Devanagari script Description of subject: Devanagari script is an abugida writing system used for several major South Asian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit.
Referenced by (263)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Devanagari
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Devanagari
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Devanagari numeral system
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Devanagari
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Devanagari
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Devanagari
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Devanagari
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Sindhi-Devanagari script
this entity surface form:
Devanagari
this entity surface form:
Devanagari
this entity surface form:
Devanagari
this entity surface form:
Devanagari
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Devanagari alphabet
this entity surface form:
Devanagari
this entity surface form:
Devanagari
subject surface form:
Bodo language
this entity surface form:
Devanagari
this entity surface form:
Devanagari
this entity surface form:
Devanagari
this entity surface form:
Devanagari
this entity surface form:
Nāgarī script
this entity surface form:
Devanagari
this entity surface form:
Devanagari