Eastern Arabic numerals
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Eastern Arabic numerals are the set of digit symbols used in many Arabic- and Persian-writing regions as the standard way to represent numbers in the Perso-Arabic script.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arabic–Indic numerals | 1 |
| Eastern Arabic numerals canonical | 1 |
| Eastern Arabic–Indic numerals | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T212330 — 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: Eastern Arabic numerals Context triple: [Perso-Arabic script, supportsNumeralSystem, Eastern Arabic numerals]
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A.
Perso-Arabic script
The Perso-Arabic script is a modified form of the Arabic writing system, expanded with additional letters and conventions to represent the sounds of Persian and several other languages across the Middle East and South Asia.
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B.
Ruqʿah script
Ruqʿah script is a simple, highly legible Arabic handwriting style commonly used for everyday writing and official documents in the Arab world.
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C.
Diwani script
Diwani script is an ornate Ottoman-era style of Arabic calligraphy characterized by its intricate, flowing lines and dense, decorative composition often used in royal decrees and official documents.
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D.
Hijazi Arabic
Hijazi Arabic is a major regional variety of Arabic spoken primarily in western Saudi Arabia, especially in the Hijaz region including cities like Mecca, Medina, and Jeddah.
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E.
Kufic script
Kufic script is the oldest extant form of Arabic calligraphy, characterized by its angular, geometric letterforms and prominent use in early Qur’anic manuscripts and architectural inscriptions.
- 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: Eastern Arabic numerals Target entity description: Eastern Arabic numerals are the set of digit symbols used in many Arabic- and Persian-writing regions as the standard way to represent numbers in the Perso-Arabic script.
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A.
Perso-Arabic script
The Perso-Arabic script is a modified form of the Arabic writing system, expanded with additional letters and conventions to represent the sounds of Persian and several other languages across the Middle East and South Asia.
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B.
Ruqʿah script
Ruqʿah script is a simple, highly legible Arabic handwriting style commonly used for everyday writing and official documents in the Arab world.
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C.
Diwani script
Diwani script is an ornate Ottoman-era style of Arabic calligraphy characterized by its intricate, flowing lines and dense, decorative composition often used in royal decrees and official documents.
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D.
Hijazi Arabic
Hijazi Arabic is a major regional variety of Arabic spoken primarily in western Saudi Arabia, especially in the Hijaz region including cities like Mecca, Medina, and Jeddah.
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E.
Kufic script
Kufic script is the oldest extant form of Arabic calligraphy, characterized by its angular, geometric letterforms and prominent use in early Qur’anic manuscripts and architectural inscriptions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
digit set
ⓘ
numeral system ⓘ |
| adoptedIn | Islamic Golden Age ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Eastern Arabic numerals
ⓘ
surface form:
Arabic–Indic numerals
Eastern Arabic numerals ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Arabic–Indic numerals
|
| contrastedWith | Western Arabic numerals ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Indian numerals ⓘ |
| digitCount | 10 ⓘ |
| digitRange | 0–9 ⓘ |
| digitSymbolForEight | ٨ ⓘ |
| digitSymbolForFive | ٥ ⓘ |
| digitSymbolForFour | ٤ ⓘ |
| digitSymbolForNine | ٩ ⓘ |
| digitSymbolForOne | ١ ⓘ |
| digitSymbolForSeven | ٧ ⓘ |
| digitSymbolForSix | ٦ ⓘ |
| digitSymbolForThree | ٣ ⓘ |
| digitSymbolForTwo | ٢ ⓘ |
| digitSymbolForZero | ٠ ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Extended Arabic-Indic numerals ⓘ |
| historicalOrigin | Hindu–Arabic numeral system ⓘ |
| numeralBase | base-10 ⓘ |
| numericSystemType | positional notation ⓘ |
| scriptContext |
used with Arabic alphabet
ⓘ
used with Persian alphabet ⓘ |
| standardIn | Arabic-script typography ⓘ |
| unicodeBlock | Arabic-Indic Digits ⓘ |
| unicodeRange | U+0660–U+0669 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
currency amounts
ⓘ
dates ⓘ page numbering ⓘ representing decimal numbers ⓘ |
| usedInComputing | supported in Unicode ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | taught in Arabic-speaking countries ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage |
Arabic
ⓘ
Sorani ⓘ
surface form:
Kurdish (Sorani)
Pashto language ⓘ
surface form:
Pashto
Persian language ⓘ
surface form:
Persian
Sindhi ⓘ Urdu language ⓘ
surface form:
Urdu
Uyghur Arabic alphabet ⓘ
surface form:
Uyghur (Arabic script)
|
| usedInRegion |
Afghanistan
ⓘ
Iran ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North Africa ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ |
| writingDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Perso-Arabic script ⓘ |
| zeroConcept | includes a symbol for zero ⓘ |
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: Eastern Arabic numerals Description of subject: Eastern Arabic numerals are the set of digit symbols used in many Arabic- and Persian-writing regions as the standard way to represent numbers in the Perso-Arabic script.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Arabic–Indic numerals
this entity surface form:
Eastern Arabic–Indic numerals