Tigalari script
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The Tigalari script is a historical South Indian writing system used primarily to write Tulu and Sanskrit, closely related to other southern Brahmic scripts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tigalari script canonical | 6 |
| Tulu-Tigalari script | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1195837 — 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: Tigalari script Context triple: [Grantha script, influenced, Tigalari script]
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A.
Tirhuta script
Tirhuta script is a traditional Brahmic writing system historically used for the Maithili language of the Mithila region in India and Nepal.
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B.
Lontara script
The Lontara script is an indigenous writing system traditionally used by the Bugis and Makassarese peoples of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, to write their Austronesian languages.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Kharoṣṭhī script
The Kharoṣṭhī script is an ancient right-to-left writing system used in northwestern South Asia, especially in the Gandhāra region, primarily for early Buddhist 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: Tigalari script Target entity description: The Tigalari script is a historical South Indian writing system used primarily to write Tulu and Sanskrit, closely related to other southern Brahmic scripts.
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A.
Tirhuta script
Tirhuta script is a traditional Brahmic writing system historically used for the Maithili language of the Mithila region in India and Nepal.
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B.
Lontara script
The Lontara script is an indigenous writing system traditionally used by the Bugis and Makassarese peoples of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, to write their Austronesian languages.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Kharoṣṭhī script
The Kharoṣṭhī script is an ancient right-to-left writing system used in northwestern South Asia, especially in the Gandhāra region, primarily for early Buddhist and administrative texts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brahmic script
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abugida ⓘ historical script ⓘ writing system ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Grantha script
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Kannada script ⓘ Malayalam script ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Grantha script ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Tulu Grantha script
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linked to:
Tulu script
Tulu script ⓘ Tulu-Tigalari script ⓘ
linked to:
Tigalari script
|
| hasConsonantInventory | similar to other South Indian Brahmic scripts ⓘ |
| hasDistinctFeature |
conjunct consonant ligatures
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rounded letterforms ⓘ vowel diacritics attached to consonant bases ⓘ |
| hasScriptClass | Indic script ⓘ |
| hasScriptType | alphasyllabary ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeStatus | not yet encoded in Unicode (as of 2024) ⓘ |
| hasUsageStatus |
limited contemporary use
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primarily liturgical and scholarly use today ⓘ |
| hasVowelInventory | similar to Sanskrit phonology ⓘ |
| historicallyUsedBy |
Brahmin communities of coastal Karnataka
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Tulu-speaking communities ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Grantha script ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin |
Tulu Nadu region
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linked to:
Tulu Nadu
|
| scriptCategory | South Indian script ⓘ |
| scriptFamily | Brahmic scripts ⓘ |
| sharesOriginWith |
Kannada script
ⓘ
Malayalam script ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early modern period
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medieval period ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
Kannada script
ⓘ
Malayalam script ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Hindu religious literature
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Sanskrit manuscripts ⓘ Tulu literary works ⓘ Vedic texts ⓘ palm-leaf manuscripts ⓘ temple records ⓘ |
| usedIn |
South India
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Tulu Nadu ⓘ coastal Karnataka ⓘ northern Kerala ⓘ
linked to:
Malabar District
|
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| writingSystemOf |
Sanskrit language
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linked to:
Sanskrit
Tigalari language (traditional scholarly use for Sanskrit in the region) ⓘ Tulu language ⓘ
linked to:
Tulu
|
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: Tigalari script Description of subject: The Tigalari script is a historical South Indian writing system used primarily to write Tulu and Sanskrit, closely related to other southern Brahmic scripts.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tigalari script
linked to: Tigalari script
Tigalari language (traditional scholarly use for Sanskrit in the region)
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writingSystem
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Tigalari script
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