East_Asian_Width
E142322
East_Asian_Width is a Unicode character property that classifies characters by their display width in East Asian typography, such as fullwidth, halfwidth, and ambiguous.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| East_Asian_Width canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1241564 — 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: East_Asian_Width Context triple: [Unicode Character Database, definesProperty, East_Asian_Width]
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A.
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.
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B.
Hangul Jamo Extended-B
Hangul Jamo Extended-B is a Unicode block that contains additional archaic and rare Hangul jamo characters used for scholarly and historical representation of Korean script.
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C.
Kanji
Kanji are logographic characters of Chinese origin used in the Japanese writing system alongside hiragana and katakana.
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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.
Sinosphere
Sinosphere is the cultural sphere in East and Southeast Asia historically shaped by Chinese language, Confucian philosophy, and related political and social institutions.
- 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: East_Asian_Width Target entity description: East_Asian_Width is a Unicode character property that classifies characters by their display width in East Asian typography, such as fullwidth, halfwidth, and ambiguous.
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A.
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.
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B.
Hangul Jamo Extended-B
Hangul Jamo Extended-B is a Unicode block that contains additional archaic and rare Hangul jamo characters used for scholarly and historical representation of Korean script.
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C.
Kanji
Kanji are logographic characters of Chinese origin used in the Japanese writing system alongside hiragana and katakana.
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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.
Sinosphere
Sinosphere is the cultural sphere in East and Southeast Asia historically shaped by Chinese language, Confucian philosophy, and related political and social institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Unicode character property
ⓘ
text layout property ⓘ |
| abbreviation | EAW ⓘ |
| appliesTo | Unicode code points ⓘ |
| categoryLabel_A | Ambiguous ⓘ |
| categoryLabel_F | Fullwidth ⓘ |
| categoryLabel_H | Halfwidth ⓘ |
| categoryLabel_N | Neutral ⓘ |
| categoryLabel_Na | Narrow ⓘ |
| categoryLabel_W | Wide ⓘ |
| definedBy | Unicode Standard ⓘ |
| definedIn |
Unicode Standard Annex #11
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linked to:
Unicode Standard Annexes
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| distinguishes |
ambiguous-width characters
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fullwidth characters ⓘ halfwidth characters ⓘ narrow characters ⓘ neutral characters ⓘ wide characters ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
A
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F ⓘ H ⓘ N ⓘ Na ⓘ W ⓘ |
| hasDataFile | EastAsianWidth.txt ⓘ |
| hasPurpose | classify characters by display width in East Asian typography ⓘ |
| influencedBy | East Asian typography conventions ⓘ |
| influences |
alignment of text in terminal columns
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display width of characters in East Asian contexts ⓘ table layout in monospaced environments ⓘ |
| introducedFor | handling fullwidth and halfwidth characters ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Unicode Consortium ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
CJK compatibility forms
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General_Category ⓘ Grapheme_Cluster_Break ⓘ Line_Break ⓘ Unicode normalization ⓘ |
| usedBy |
programming language libraries for Unicode handling
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terminal width algorithms ⓘ wcwidth implementations ⓘ |
| usedIn |
column width calculations
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console applications ⓘ cursor movement calculations ⓘ line breaking algorithms ⓘ monospaced font layout ⓘ terminal emulators ⓘ text editors ⓘ text rendering ⓘ |
| valueType | enumerated property ⓘ |
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: East_Asian_Width Description of subject: East_Asian_Width is a Unicode character property that classifies characters by their display width in East Asian typography, such as fullwidth, halfwidth, and ambiguous.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.