Katakana
E154499
Katakana is one of the two main Japanese phonetic writing systems, primarily used for foreign words, onomatopoeia, emphasis, and technical or scientific terms.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1334571 — 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: Katakana Context triple: [Kyushu dialect, usesScript, Katakana]
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A.
Hiragana
Hiragana is a Japanese phonetic syllabary used primarily for native words, grammatical elements, and beginners’ reading and writing.
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B.
Kanji
Kanji are logographic characters of Chinese origin used in the Japanese writing system alongside hiragana and katakana.
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C.
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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D.
Hanja
Hanja is the set of traditional Chinese characters historically used to write Korean, especially for proper names, academic terms, and classical texts.
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E.
Hangul Jamo Extended-A
Hangul Jamo Extended-A is a Unicode block that contains additional archaic and extended Hangul jamo characters used for representing Old Korean and specialized orthographic forms.
- 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: Katakana Target entity description: Katakana is one of the two main Japanese phonetic writing systems, primarily used for foreign words, onomatopoeia, emphasis, and technical or scientific terms.
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A.
Hiragana
Hiragana is a Japanese phonetic syllabary used primarily for native words, grammatical elements, and beginners’ reading and writing.
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B.
Kanji
Kanji are logographic characters of Chinese origin used in the Japanese writing system alongside hiragana and katakana.
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C.
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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D.
Hanja
Hanja is the set of traditional Chinese characters historically used to write Korean, especially for proper names, academic terms, and classical texts.
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E.
Hangul Jamo Extended-A
Hangul Jamo Extended-A is a Unicode block that contains additional archaic and extended Hangul jamo characters used for representing Old Korean and specialized orthographic forms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (87)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese syllabary
ⓘ
phonetic script ⓘ writing system ⓘ |
| comparedTo | more cursive Hiragana ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Hiragana
ⓘ
Kanji ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
Man'yōgana
ⓘ
surface form:
Man’yōgana
|
| developedIn | Japan ⓘ |
| hasCharacterSet |
ア
ⓘ
イ ⓘ ウ ⓘ エ ⓘ オ ⓘ カ ⓘ キ ⓘ ク ⓘ ケ ⓘ コ ⓘ サ ⓘ シ ⓘ ス ⓘ セ ⓘ ソ ⓘ タ ⓘ チ ⓘ ツ ⓘ テ ⓘ ト ⓘ ナ ⓘ ニ ⓘ ヌ ⓘ ネ ⓘ ノ ⓘ ハ ⓘ ヒ ⓘ フ ⓘ ヘ ⓘ ホ ⓘ マ ⓘ ミ ⓘ ム ⓘ メ ⓘ モ ⓘ ヤ ⓘ ユ ⓘ ヨ ⓘ ラ ⓘ リ ⓘ ル ⓘ レ ⓘ ロ ⓘ ワ ⓘ ヲ ⓘ ン ⓘ |
| hasDiacritics |
dakuten
ⓘ
handakuten ⓘ |
| hasHalfwidthForms | Halfwidth Katakana ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfBasicCharacters | 46 ⓘ |
| hasStrokeStyle | angular shapes ⓘ |
| ISO15924Code |
Katakana
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Kana
|
| originatedFrom | components of Chinese characters ⓘ |
| partOf | Japanese writing system ⓘ |
| scriptType | syllabic ⓘ |
| subclassOf | kana ⓘ |
| taughtIn | Japanese elementary schools ⓘ |
| timeOfOrigin | early Heian period ⓘ |
| UnicodeBlock | Katakana ⓘ |
| UnicodeRange | U+30A0–U+30FF ⓘ |
| usedFor |
emphasis
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foreign loanwords ⓘ foreign personal names ⓘ foreign place names ⓘ names of plants and animals ⓘ onomatopoeia ⓘ representation of foreign acronyms ⓘ scientific terms ⓘ stylized brand names in Japanese ⓘ technical terms ⓘ transcription of foreign sounds ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Japanese dictionaries
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Japanese language ⓘ advertising in Japan ⓘ furigana annotations ⓘ manga and light novels ⓘ |
| writingDirection |
left-to-right
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top-to-bottom ⓘ |
| writingSystemFamily | Brahmic-derived scripts ⓘ |
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: Katakana Description of subject: Katakana is one of the two main Japanese phonetic writing systems, primarily used for foreign words, onomatopoeia, emphasis, and technical or scientific terms.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kana
subject surface form:
Ōse