Buhid script
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The Buhid script is an indigenous Brahmic-derived writing system from the Philippines used primarily by the Buhid people of Mindoro.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Buhid script canonical | 3 |
| Buhid (U+1740–U+175F) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6711706 — 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: Buhid script Context triple: [Buhid language, hasWritingSystem, Buhid script]
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A.
Hanunóo script
The Hanunóo script is an indigenous Brahmic-derived syllabic writing system traditionally used by the Hanunóo Mangyan people of Mindoro in the Philippines.
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B.
Bugis script
Bugis script is a traditional Brahmic writing system used primarily for the Buginese language of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Kikakui script
The Kikakui script is an indigenous syllabary developed in the 19th century for writing the Mende language of Sierra Leone.
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D.
Buri Wolio script
Buri Wolio script is an indigenous writing system historically used to record the Wolio language of the Butonese people in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
Tagbanwa script
Tagbanwa script is an indigenous Brahmic-derived writing system historically used by the Tagbanwa people of Palawan in the Philippines to write their native languages.
- 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: Buhid script Target entity description: The Buhid script is an indigenous Brahmic-derived writing system from the Philippines used primarily by the Buhid people of Mindoro.
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A.
Hanunóo script
The Hanunóo script is an indigenous Brahmic-derived syllabic writing system traditionally used by the Hanunóo Mangyan people of Mindoro in the Philippines.
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B.
Bugis script
Bugis script is a traditional Brahmic writing system used primarily for the Buginese language of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Kikakui script
The Kikakui script is an indigenous syllabary developed in the 19th century for writing the Mende language of Sierra Leone.
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D.
Buri Wolio script
Buri Wolio script is an indigenous writing system historically used to record the Wolio language of the Butonese people in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
Tagbanwa script
Tagbanwa script is an indigenous Brahmic-derived writing system historically used by the Tagbanwa people of Palawan in the Philippines to write their native languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | writing system ⓘ |
| associatedEthnicGroup | Buhid people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToCulturalSphere |
Brahmic-derived scripts
ⓘ
Philippine scripts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| currentStatus | limited use ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Baybayin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directionOfWriting | left-to-right ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | southern Mindoro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacterCategory |
letters
ⓘ
virama-like sign ⓘ vowel signs ⓘ |
| hasCombiningMarks | vowel diacritics ⓘ |
| hasISO15924Code | Buhd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfConsonants | 13 ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfLetters | 18 ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfVowels | 5 ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeBlock | Buhid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVowelInherent | /a/ ⓘ |
| historicalUsage | traditional writing of the Buhid people ⓘ |
| ISO15924Number | 372 ⓘ |
| region | Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Baybayin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hanunóo script NERFINISHED ⓘ Tagbanwa script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scriptFamily | Brahmic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scriptFor | Austronesian language ⓘ |
| scriptType | alphasyllabary ⓘ |
| UnicodeBlockRange | U+1740–U+175F ⓘ |
| UnicodeScriptProperty | Buhid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy | Buhid people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cultural texts
ⓘ
personal communication ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Mindoro
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingDirectionCategory | horizontal ⓘ |
| writingSystemOf | Buhid language ⓘ |
| writingSystemStatus | minority 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: Buhid script Description of subject: The Buhid script is an indigenous Brahmic-derived writing system from the Philippines used primarily by the Buhid people of Mindoro.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Buhid (U+1740–U+175F)