Cyrillic Extended-A
E130776
Cyrillic Extended-A is a Unicode block that adds additional Cyrillic characters used for various minority and historic languages beyond those covered by the basic Cyrillic block.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cyrillic Extended-A canonical | 3 |
| Cyrillic Unicode blocks | 1 |
| Cyrillic І | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1137439 — 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: Cyrillic Extended-A Context triple: [Cyrillic Extended-B, relatedBlock, Cyrillic Extended-A]
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A.
Cyrillic Extended-B
Cyrillic Extended-B is a Unicode block that contains additional Cyrillic characters used for writing various minority and historic languages that employ the Cyrillic script.
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B.
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin-1 Supplement is a Unicode block that extends the basic Latin script with additional characters, including accented letters and symbols used in many Western European languages.
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C.
Cyrillic Supplement block
The Cyrillic Supplement block is a range of Unicode code points that provides additional Cyrillic characters not included in the main Cyrillic block, supporting extended orthographies and scholarly usage.
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D.
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script is an alphabetic writing system used for many Slavic and other Eurasian languages, including Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.
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E.
Latin Extended-B
Latin Extended-B is a Unicode block that adds additional Latin characters used for various historical, phonetic, and minority language orthographies beyond the basic Latin set.
- 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: Cyrillic Extended-A Target entity description: Cyrillic Extended-A is a Unicode block that adds additional Cyrillic characters used for various minority and historic languages beyond those covered by the basic Cyrillic block.
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A.
Cyrillic Extended-B
Cyrillic Extended-B is a Unicode block that contains additional Cyrillic characters used for writing various minority and historic languages that employ the Cyrillic script.
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B.
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin-1 Supplement is a Unicode block that extends the basic Latin script with additional characters, including accented letters and symbols used in many Western European languages.
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C.
Cyrillic Supplement block
The Cyrillic Supplement block is a range of Unicode code points that provides additional Cyrillic characters not included in the main Cyrillic block, supporting extended orthographies and scholarly usage.
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D.
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script is an alphabetic writing system used for many Slavic and other Eurasian languages, including Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.
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E.
Latin Extended-B
Latin Extended-B is a Unicode block that adds additional Latin characters used for various historical, phonetic, and minority language orthographies beyond the basic Latin set.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Unicode block ⓘ |
| assignedToUnicodeVersion | Unicode 5.1 ⓘ |
| blockName | Cyrillic Extended-A ⓘ |
| blockNumberOfCodePoints | 32 ⓘ |
| blockType | script extension block ⓘ |
| category |
Cyrillic Extended-A
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cyrillic Unicode blocks
|
| codePointRangeEnd | U+2DFF ⓘ |
| codePointRangeStart | U+2DE0 ⓘ |
| contains |
Cyrillic combining diacritical marks
ⓘ
Cyrillic combining letters ⓘ |
| containsCharactersFor |
Uralic languages written in Cyrillic
ⓘ
various minority languages of the former Soviet Union ⓘ |
| encodingSystem | Unicode ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | Cyrillic_Ext_A ⓘ |
| hasScriptProperty | Cyrillic ⓘ |
| introducedAs | new block in Unicode 5.1 ⓘ |
| neighboringBlockNext | Supplemental Punctuation ⓘ |
| neighboringBlockPrevious | CJK Radicals Supplement ⓘ |
| partOfStandard |
Unicode
ⓘ
surface form:
Unicode Standard
|
| plane | Basic Multilingual Plane ⓘ |
| rangeNotation | 2DE0–2DFF ⓘ |
| script | Cyrillic ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | Unicode Consortium ⓘ |
| supports | extended Cyrillic orthographies ⓘ |
| usedFor |
historic languages using Cyrillic script
ⓘ
minority languages using Cyrillic script ⓘ phonetic and orthographic extensions of Cyrillic ⓘ |
| usedIn |
character encoding
ⓘ
digital text processing ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | alphabetic ⓘ |
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: Cyrillic Extended-A Description of subject: Cyrillic Extended-A is a Unicode block that adds additional Cyrillic characters used for various minority and historic languages beyond those covered by the basic Cyrillic block.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cyrillic Unicode blocks
this entity surface form:
Cyrillic І