Omicron

E105675

Omicron is a vowel letter of the Greek alphabet, historically representing a short "o" sound and used today in various scientific and mathematical contexts.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Omicron canonical 2
Όμικρον 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Greek letter
vowel letter
alphabetFamily Greek
appearsIn Greek numeral system
Greek orthography
category Greek vowel
contrastedWith Omega
derivedFrom Proto-Sinaitic letter ʿayin
surface form: Phoenician letter Ayin
directionality left-to-right
hasCase lowercase
uppercase
hasLowercaseName omicron
hasStrokeCount 1
hasUnicodeCodePoint U+039F
U+03BF
hasUppercaseName OMICRON
historicalSoundValue /o/
ISOBasicLatinCorrespondence O
isVowel true
languageFamilyUsage Hellenic languages
lowercaseForm ο
nameInGreek Omicron self-linksurface differs
surface form: Όμικρον
numericValueInGreekNumerals 70
orthographicRole represents /o/ phoneme in Greek
phoneticCategory mid back rounded vowel
positionInAlphabet 15
relatedTo Cyrillic letter О
Latin letter O
representsQuantity short o as opposed to long ō
representsSound short o
script Greek alphabet
scriptType alphabetic
scriptUsageStatus in current use
shape circular
transliteration O
uppercaseForm Ο
usedAsSymbolFor Big-O notation (as letter O, historically linked)
usedIn Greek language
astronomy
linguistics
mathematics
science
statistics
usedInContext classical Greek
modern Greek
writingSystem Greek 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: Omicron
Description of subject: Omicron is a vowel letter of the Greek alphabet, historically representing a short "o" sound and used today in various scientific and mathematical contexts.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Greek alphabet hasLetter Omicron
Omicron nameInGreek Omicron self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Όμικρον