Modi script
E102191
Modi script is a historical cursive writing system from western India that was primarily used for administrative and everyday writing in the Marathi language.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modi script canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T861233 — 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: Modi script Context triple: [Marathi people, scriptUsedHistorically, Modi script]
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A.
Sharada script
The Sharada script is an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in the northwestern Indian subcontinent, especially in Kashmir, primarily for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri.
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B.
Devanagari script
Devanagari script is an abugida writing system used for several major South Asian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit.
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C.
Brahmi script
The Brahmi script is one of the oldest writing systems of the Indian subcontinent, serving as the ancestor of most modern South and Southeast Asian scripts.
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D.
Gujarati script
The Gujarati script is an abugida used primarily to write the Gujarati language and related Indo-Aryan languages, derived from the Devanagari script and characterized by the absence of the horizontal headline.
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E.
Odia script
Odia script is an abugida of the Brahmic family used primarily to write the Odia language and several other regional Indo-Aryan languages of eastern India.
- 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: Modi script Target entity description: Modi script is a historical cursive writing system from western India that was primarily used for administrative and everyday writing in the Marathi language.
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A.
Sharada script
The Sharada script is an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in the northwestern Indian subcontinent, especially in Kashmir, primarily for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri.
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B.
Devanagari script
Devanagari script is an abugida writing system used for several major South Asian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit.
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C.
Brahmi script
The Brahmi script is one of the oldest writing systems of the Indian subcontinent, serving as the ancestor of most modern South and Southeast Asian scripts.
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D.
Gujarati script
The Gujarati script is an abugida used primarily to write the Gujarati language and related Indo-Aryan languages, derived from the Devanagari script and characterized by the absence of the horizontal headline.
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E.
Odia script
Odia script is an abugida of the Brahmic family used primarily to write the Odia language and several other regional Indo-Aryan languages of eastern India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brahmic script
ⓘ
historical script ⓘ writing system ⓘ |
| addedToUnicodeVersion | Unicode 7.0 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Maratha bureaucracy
ⓘ
Maratha administration ⓘ
surface form:
Peshwa administration
|
| country | India ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Marathi manuscript tradition
ⓘ
administrative culture of western India ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Nagari script
ⓘ
surface form:
Nagari scripts
|
| direction | left-to-right ⓘ |
| documentType |
account books
ⓘ
court documents ⓘ land records ⓘ official letters ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
abbreviated letter forms
ⓘ
conjunct consonants ⓘ ligatures ⓘ minimal use of vowel marks ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeBlock | Modi (U+11600–U+1165F) ⓘ |
| primaryUsage |
administrative writing
ⓘ
everyday writing ⓘ |
| region |
Maharashtra
ⓘ
western India ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Devanagari script ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Devanagari script ⓘ |
| scriptCodeISO15924 | Modi ⓘ |
| scriptFamily | Brahmic scripts ⓘ |
| scriptType | cursive ⓘ |
| status |
historical
ⓘ
no longer in everyday official use ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early modern India
ⓘ
medieval India ⓘ |
| usedBy | Maratha administration ⓘ |
| usedFor |
correspondence
ⓘ
legal documents ⓘ revenue records ⓘ |
| usedForLanguage |
Konkani
ⓘ
surface form:
Konkani language
Marathi language ⓘ Varhadi dialect of Marathi ⓘ |
| usedIn | Maratha Empire ⓘ |
| usedUntilCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| writingInstrument |
metal pen
ⓘ
reed pen ⓘ |
| writingMedium |
palm leaf
ⓘ
paper ⓘ |
| writingSpeed | suited for rapid writing ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | abugida ⓘ |
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: Modi script Description of subject: Modi script is a historical cursive writing system from western India that was primarily used for administrative and everyday writing in the Marathi language.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.