Khitan small script
E723620
Khitan small script was a logographic writing system developed by the Khitan people to record their language during the Liao dynasty in northern China.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Khitan small script canonical | 6 |
| Khitan Small Script | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8295224 — 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: Khitan small script Context triple: [Liao dynasty, usedScript, Khitan small script]
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A.
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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B.
Sorabe script
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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C.
Khojki script
The Khojki script is a historical writing system used primarily by the Nizari Ismaili community of South Asia to record religious and literary texts in languages such as Sindhi and Gujarati.
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D.
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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E.
Chagatai script
The Chagatai script is a historical Perso-Arabic–based writing system used for the Chagatai Turkic literary language, which influenced later Central Asian Turkic languages including Uyghur.
- 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: Khitan small script Target entity description: Khitan small script was a logographic writing system developed by the Khitan people to record their language during the Liao dynasty in northern China.
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A.
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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B.
Sorabe script
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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C.
Khojki script
The Khojki script is a historical writing system used primarily by the Nizari Ismaili community of South Asia to record religious and literary texts in languages such as Sindhi and Gujarati.
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D.
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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E.
Chagatai script
The Chagatai script is a historical Perso-Arabic–based writing system used for the Chagatai Turkic literary language, which influenced later Central Asian Turkic languages including Uyghur.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical script
ⓘ
writing system ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty | Liao dynasty ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| currentStateOfDecipherment | partially deciphered ⓘ |
| developedBy | Khitan people ⓘ |
| directionOfWriting |
columns ordered left-to-right
ⓘ
top-to-bottom ⓘ vertical ⓘ |
| distinctFrom |
Chinese characters
ⓘ
Khitan large script ⓘ |
| eraOfUseEnd | 12th century ⓘ |
| eraOfUseStart | 10th century ⓘ |
| hasCharacterCount | several hundred characters ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Khitan Liao Empire
ⓘ
linked to:
Liao dynasty
|
| influencedBy | Chinese script ⓘ |
| ISO15924 | Kits ⓘ |
| region |
Inner Mongolia
ⓘ
linked to:
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Manchuria ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Khitan large script ⓘ |
| scriptFamily |
Khitan scripts
ⓘ
linked to:
Khitan script
|
| scriptType |
logographic
ⓘ
partly syllabic ⓘ |
| scriptUsage |
commemorative texts
ⓘ
imperial records ⓘ recording Khitan language ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
10th century
ⓘ
11th century ⓘ 12th century ⓘ |
| UnicodeBlock |
Khitan Small Script
ⓘ
linked to:
Khitan small script
|
| UnicodeRange | U+18B00–U+18CFF ⓘ |
| UnicodeVersionAdded | Unicode 13.0 ⓘ |
| usedBy | Khitan people ⓘ |
| usedByState | Liao dynasty ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Liao dynasty
ⓘ
northern China ⓘ
linked to:
North China
|
| writingSystemClass | East Asian script ⓘ |
| writingSystemFor | Khitan language ⓘ |
| writingSystemScope |
administrative documents
ⓘ
epitaphs ⓘ inscriptions ⓘ |
| writingSystemUsage |
monumental inscriptions
ⓘ
official inscriptions ⓘ tomb inscriptions ⓘ |
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: Khitan small script Description of subject: Khitan small script was a logographic writing system developed by the Khitan people to record their language during the Liao dynasty in northern China.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Khitan small script