Kawi
E352768
Kawi is an ancient Brahmic script historically used in maritime Southeast Asia, particularly for Old Javanese and related languages.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kawi canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3383787 — 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: Kawi Context triple: [Unicode 15.0, addsScript, Kawi]
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A.
Man'yōgana
Man'yōgana is an ancient Japanese writing system that used Chinese characters phonetically and served as a precursor to the modern hiragana and katakana syllabaries.
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B.
Ōtomo no Tabito
Ōtomo no Tabito was an early Nara-period Japanese courtier and poet best known for his refined Chinese-style verse and influential role in the development of classical Japanese poetry.
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C.
Kido
Kido is a Japanese surname most famously borne by Kido Takayoshi, a key samurai statesman of the Meiji Restoration.
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D.
Geats
The Geats were a North Germanic people from what is now southern Sweden, prominently featured in the Old English epic Beowulf as the hero’s own tribe.
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E.
Ōtomo no Yakamochi
Ōtomo no Yakamochi was an 8th-century Japanese court noble and one of the most prominent poets of the Nara period, traditionally regarded as a principal compiler of the Man'yōshū anthology.
- 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: Kawi Target entity description: Kawi is an ancient Brahmic script historically used in maritime Southeast Asia, particularly for Old Javanese and related languages.
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A.
Man'yōgana
Man'yōgana is an ancient Japanese writing system that used Chinese characters phonetically and served as a precursor to the modern hiragana and katakana syllabaries.
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B.
Ōtomo no Tabito
Ōtomo no Tabito was an early Nara-period Japanese courtier and poet best known for his refined Chinese-style verse and influential role in the development of classical Japanese poetry.
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C.
Kido
Kido is a Japanese surname most famously borne by Kido Takayoshi, a key samurai statesman of the Meiji Restoration.
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D.
Geats
The Geats were a North Germanic people from what is now southern Sweden, prominently featured in the Old English epic Beowulf as the hero’s own tribe.
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E.
Ōtomo no Yakamochi
Ōtomo no Yakamochi was an 8th-century Japanese court noble and one of the most prominent poets of the Nara period, traditionally regarded as a principal compiler of the Man'yōshū anthology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brahmic script
ⓘ
abugida ⓘ |
| associatedReligion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Hinduism ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Pallava script ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Southern Brahmi ⓘ |
| encodedInUnicodeVersion | Unicode 15.0 ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Javanese script
ⓘ
surface form:
Old Javanese script
|
| hasConsonantClusterRepresentation | conjunct forms ⓘ |
| hasConsonantSigns | independent consonant letters ⓘ |
| hasDiacriticsFor |
final consonants
ⓘ
nasalization ⓘ vowel length ⓘ |
| hasNumeralSystem | Kawi numerals ⓘ |
| hasScriptCodeISO15924 | Kawi self-link ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeBlock | Kawi (U+11F00–U+11F5F) ⓘ |
| hasVowelNotation |
inherent vowel /a/
ⓘ
vowel diacritics ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 8th century to 16th century ⓘ |
| influenced |
Balinese script
ⓘ
Baybayin ⓘ Javanese script ⓘ Sundanese script ⓘ |
| inUnicodeGeneralCategory | Other Letter ⓘ |
| scriptFamily | Brahmic scripts ⓘ |
| scriptUsageStatus | no longer in everyday use ⓘ |
| usedByCulture |
Balinese culture
ⓘ
surface form:
Balinese civilization
Javanese civilization ⓘ |
| usedFor |
literary works
ⓘ
religious texts ⓘ royal inscriptions ⓘ |
| usedForLanguage |
Balinese language
ⓘ
surface form:
Old Balinese
Kawi (Old Javanese) ⓘ
surface form:
Old Javanese
Old Malay ⓘ Sanskrit ⓘ |
| usedIn | maritime Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Bali
ⓘ
Java ⓘ Kalimantan ⓘ Philippines ⓘ Sumatra ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| writingMedium |
metal inscriptions
ⓘ
palm-leaf manuscripts ⓘ stone inscriptions ⓘ |
| writingSystemOf | Old Javanese literature ⓘ |
| writingSystemScope | historical ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | abugida ⓘ |
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: Kawi Description of subject: Kawi is an ancient Brahmic script historically used in maritime Southeast Asia, particularly for Old Javanese and related languages.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.