Khitan large script
E723619
Khitan large script was a logographic writing system developed by the Khitan people to record their language during the Liao dynasty in northern China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Khitan large script canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8295223 — 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: Khitan large script Context triple: [Liao dynasty, usedScript, Khitan large script]
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A.
Jurchen script
The Jurchen script was a writing system developed by the Jurchen people to record their Tungusic language, used primarily during the Jin dynasty in northern China.
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B.
Kikakui script
The Kikakui script is an indigenous syllabary developed in the 19th century for writing the Mende language of Sierra Leone.
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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.
Manchu script
Manchu script is a vertical alphabetic writing system historically used for the Manchu language and Qing dynasty administration, derived from and closely related to the Classical Mongolian script.
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E.
Sorabe script
The Sorabe script is an Arabic-derived writing system historically used by Malagasy speakers, particularly in southern Madagascar, for religious, literary, and administrative texts.
- 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: Khitan large script Target entity description: Khitan large script was a logographic writing system developed by the Khitan people to record their language during the Liao dynasty in northern China.
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A.
Jurchen script
The Jurchen script was a writing system developed by the Jurchen people to record their Tungusic language, used primarily during the Jin dynasty in northern China.
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B.
Kikakui script
The Kikakui script is an indigenous syllabary developed in the 19th century for writing the Mende language of Sierra Leone.
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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.
Manchu script
Manchu script is a vertical alphabetic writing system historically used for the Manchu language and Qing dynasty administration, derived from and closely related to the Classical Mongolian script.
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E.
Sorabe script
The Sorabe script is an Arabic-derived writing system historically used by Malagasy speakers, particularly in southern Madagascar, for religious, literary, and administrative texts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical script
ⓘ
writing system ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Liao dynasty imperial court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deciphermentStatus | partially deciphered ⓘ |
| developedFor | Khitan language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directionOfWriting |
columns arranged left-to-right
ⓘ
top-to-bottom ⓘ vertical ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystemProperty | no known native name preserved ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Chinese characters ⓘ |
| region |
Inner Mongolia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Manchuria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Khitan small script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scriptFamily | Khitan scripts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scriptType | logographic ⓘ |
| scriptUsage | primarily for monumental inscriptions ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
10th century
ⓘ
11th century ⓘ 12th century ⓘ |
| unicodeStatus | not encoded in Unicode ⓘ |
| usedBy | Khitan people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
epitaphs
ⓘ
inscriptions ⓘ official documents ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Liao dynasty
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
northern China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystemOf | Khitan language ⓘ |
| writingSystemStatus | extinct ⓘ |
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: Khitan large script Description of subject: Khitan large script was a logographic writing system developed by the Khitan people to record their language during the Liao dynasty in northern China.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.