Jawi script
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Jawi script is an Arabic-based writing system historically used for various Malayic languages in Southeast Asia, including Minangkabau, for religious, literary, and administrative purposes.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jawi script canonical | 41 |
| Jawi | 2 |
| Aksara Pegon | 1 |
| Arabic script (Jawi) | 1 |
| Tulisan Jawi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1007320 — 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: Jawi script Context triple: [Minangkabau, traditionalScript, Jawi script]
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A.
Javanese script
The Javanese script is a traditional Brahmic-derived abugida used historically and culturally for writing the Javanese language, especially on the island of Java in Indonesia.
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B.
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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C.
Sundanese script
The Sundanese script is an abugida used historically and in modern times to write the Sundanese language of West Java, Indonesia.
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D.
Balinese script
Balinese script is an abugida used primarily on the Indonesian island of Bali for writing the Balinese language, as well as liturgical and historical texts in Sanskrit and Old Javanese.
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E.
Ruqʿah script
Ruqʿah script is a simple, highly legible Arabic handwriting style commonly used for everyday writing and official documents in the Arab world.
- 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: Jawi script Target entity description: Jawi script is an Arabic-based writing system historically used for various Malayic languages in Southeast Asia, including Minangkabau, for religious, literary, and administrative purposes.
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A.
Javanese script
The Javanese script is a traditional Brahmic-derived abugida used historically and culturally for writing the Javanese language, especially on the island of Java in Indonesia.
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B.
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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C.
Sundanese script
The Sundanese script is an abugida used historically and in modern times to write the Sundanese language of West Java, Indonesia.
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D.
Balinese script
Balinese script is an abugida used primarily on the Indonesian island of Bali for writing the Balinese language, as well as liturgical and historical texts in Sanskrit and Old Javanese.
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E.
Ruqʿah script
Ruqʿah script is a simple, highly legible Arabic handwriting style commonly used for everyday writing and official documents in the Arab world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Abjad
ⓘ
Arabic-derived script ⓘ writing system ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion | Islam ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Pegon script ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Arabic script ⓘ |
| hasAdditionalLettersFor |
/g/ sound
ⓘ
/p/ sound ⓘ /t͡ʃ/ sound ⓘ /v/ sound ⓘ /ŋ/ sound ⓘ Malay phonemes ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeBlock |
Arabic Extended-A
ⓘ
Arabic Extended-B ⓘ Arabic block ⓘ |
| historicallyUsedFor |
Islamic literature
ⓘ
administrative documents ⓘ legal documents ⓘ literary works ⓘ religious texts ⓘ royal correspondence ⓘ |
| ISO15924Code | Arab ⓘ |
| nameInMalay |
Jawi script
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Tulisan Jawi
|
| officialStatusIn | Brunei (co-official script for Malay) ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | part of Malay cultural heritage ⓘ |
| scriptFamily | Arabic script family ⓘ |
| statusInIndonesia | largely replaced by Latin script ⓘ |
| statusInMalaysia | used for religious and traditional contexts ⓘ |
| timePeriod | in use since at least the 14th century ⓘ |
| transliterationTarget | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Malay Hikayat Seri Rama
ⓘ
surface form:
Hikayat literature
Quranic exegesis in Malay ⓘ Sufi texts in Malay ⓘ |
| usedForLanguage |
Acehnese
ⓘ
surface form:
Acehnese language
Banjarese Malay ⓘ
surface form:
Banjarese language
Bruneian Malay ⓘ
surface form:
Brunei Malay
Cham Malay ⓘ Jawi Malay ⓘ
surface form:
Classical Malay
Kedahan Malay ⓘ Malay language ⓘ Minangkabau ⓘ
surface form:
Minangkabau language
Kelantan-Pattani Malay ⓘ
surface form:
Pattani Malay
|
| usedIn |
Brunei Darussalam
ⓘ
surface form:
Brunei
Indonesia ⓘ Malaysia ⓘ Philippines ⓘ
surface form:
Philippines (historically)
Singapore ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ southern Thailand ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Thailand
|
| writingDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | consonant-based 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: Jawi script Description of subject: Jawi script is an Arabic-based writing system historically used for various Malayic languages in Southeast Asia, including Minangkabau, for religious, literary, and administrative purposes.
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jawi
this entity surface form:
Arabic script (Jawi)
this entity surface form:
Aksara Pegon
this entity surface form:
Tulisan Jawi
this entity surface form:
Jawi