Myanmar Extended-B
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Myanmar Extended-B is a Unicode block that provides additional characters used in writing Burmese and related languages beyond those covered in the main Myanmar block.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Myanmar Extended-B canonical | 3 |
| Myanmar Extensions (initial) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3770904 — 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: Myanmar Extended-B Context triple: [Burmese script, hasUnicodeBlock, Myanmar Extended-B]
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A.
Burmese script
The Burmese script is an abugida used for writing the Burmese language and several other languages of Myanmar, characterized by its rounded letters and Indic origins.
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B.
Tai Tham script
The Tai Tham script is an ancient Brahmic-derived writing system used primarily for religious and literary texts in several Tai languages of northern Southeast Asia, including Lanna (Northern Thai), Tai Lue, and Khün.
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C.
Burmese
Burmese is the official Sino-Tibetan language of Myanmar, spoken by the majority Bamar ethnic group and used widely in government, education, and media.
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D.
Tai Viet script
The Tai Viet script is an abugida used by various Tai-speaking ethnic groups in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand to write their native Tai languages.
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E.
Hmong Lao script
Hmong Lao script is an orthographic system used to write the Hmong language, particularly in Laos, employing characters adapted to represent Hmong phonology.
- 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: Myanmar Extended-B Target entity description: Myanmar Extended-B is a Unicode block that provides additional characters used in writing Burmese and related languages beyond those covered in the main Myanmar block.
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A.
Burmese script
The Burmese script is an abugida used for writing the Burmese language and several other languages of Myanmar, characterized by its rounded letters and Indic origins.
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B.
Tai Tham script
The Tai Tham script is an ancient Brahmic-derived writing system used primarily for religious and literary texts in several Tai languages of northern Southeast Asia, including Lanna (Northern Thai), Tai Lue, and Khün.
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C.
Burmese
Burmese is the official Sino-Tibetan language of Myanmar, spoken by the majority Bamar ethnic group and used widely in government, education, and media.
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D.
Tai Viet script
The Tai Viet script is an abugida used by various Tai-speaking ethnic groups in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand to write their native Tai languages.
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E.
Hmong Lao script
Hmong Lao script is an orthographic system used to write the Hmong language, particularly in Laos, employing characters adapted to represent Hmong phonology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Unicode block ⓘ |
| blockName | Myanmar Extended-B self-link ⓘ |
| category | South and Southeast Asian scripts ⓘ |
| contains |
Myanmar script characters
ⓘ
additional consonant letters ⓘ additional vowels ⓘ medial consonant signs ⓘ tone marks ⓘ various extensions for minority languages ⓘ |
| encodingSystem | ISO/IEC 10646 ⓘ |
| extends |
Myanmar Unicode block
ⓘ
surface form:
Myanmar (Unicode block)
|
| hasUnicodeProperty |
Block=Myanmar Extended-B
ⓘ
Script=Myanmar ⓘ |
| plane | Basic Multilingual Plane ⓘ |
| rangeEnd | U+A9FF ⓘ |
| rangeStart | U+A9E0 ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Myanmar Unicode block
ⓘ
surface form:
Myanmar (Unicode block)
Myanmar Extended-A ⓘ |
| script |
Burmese
ⓘ
Myanmar ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| standard | Unicode ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Aiton
ⓘ
Khamti Shan ⓘ Other Shan-related languages ⓘ Pali ⓘ Phake ⓘ Sanskrit ⓘ minority languages of Myanmar ⓘ writing Burmese language ⓘ writing related languages of Myanmar ⓘ |
| usedIn |
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
ⓘ
surface form:
Bangladesh
China ⓘ India ⓘ Myanmar ⓘ Thailand ⓘ |
| writingMode | alphabetic ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Brahmic scripts
ⓘ
surface form:
Brahmic
|
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: Myanmar Extended-B Description of subject: Myanmar Extended-B is a Unicode block that provides additional characters used in writing Burmese and related languages beyond those covered in the main Myanmar block.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Myanmar Extensions (initial)