Sidetic script
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The Sidetic script is an ancient Anatolian alphabetic writing system used in the city of Side in Pamphylia during the first millennium BCE.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sidetic script canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1734804 — 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: Sidetic script Context triple: [Sidetic, writingSystem, Sidetic script]
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A.
Tigalari script
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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B.
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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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.
Samaritan script
The Samaritan script is an ancient consonantal writing system used by the Samaritan community to write their version of Hebrew and Aramaic, preserving a distinct tradition separate from mainstream Jewish scripts.
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E.
Takri script
The Takri script is an abugida historically used in the western Himalayas, particularly in regions of present-day Himachal Pradesh and Jammu, to write several Indo-Aryan languages such as Dogri and Jaunsari.
- 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: Sidetic script Target entity description: The Sidetic script is an ancient Anatolian alphabetic writing system used in the city of Side in Pamphylia during the first millennium BCE.
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A.
Tigalari script
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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B.
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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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.
Samaritan script
The Samaritan script is an ancient consonantal writing system used by the Samaritan community to write their version of Hebrew and Aramaic, preserving a distinct tradition separate from mainstream Jewish scripts.
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E.
Takri script
The Takri script is an abugida historically used in the western Himalayas, particularly in regions of present-day Himachal Pradesh and Jammu, to write several Indo-Aryan languages such as Dogri and Jaunsari.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alphabetic script
ⓘ
ancient script ⓘ writing system ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Side ⓘ |
| associatedWithCulture | Pamphylians ⓘ |
| characterType | consonant and vowel letters ⓘ |
| chronologicalStatus | extinct ⓘ |
| deciphermentStatus | partially deciphered ⓘ |
| discoveredThrough | epigraphic finds in Side ⓘ |
| geographicContext | Anatolia ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Classical Antiquity
ⓘ
Hellenistic period ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Greek script (hypothesized) ⓘ |
| languageFamilyOfAssociatedLanguage | Anatolian branch of Indo-European (hypothesized) ⓘ |
| numberOfKnownInscriptions | few dozen ⓘ |
| regionType | coastal Anatolia ⓘ |
| scriptFamily |
Anatolian scripts
ⓘ
linked to:
Lycian alphabet
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| timePeriod | first millennium BCE ⓘ |
| unicodeStatus | not encoded in Unicode (as of 2024) ⓘ |
| usedBy | Sidetic language ⓘ |
| usedFor |
official inscriptions
ⓘ
public inscriptions ⓘ |
| usedIn | Side ⓘ |
| usedInPresentDayCountry | Turkey ⓘ |
| usedInRegion | Pamphylia ⓘ |
| writingDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| writingMedium |
coins
ⓘ
stone inscriptions ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | alphabetic ⓘ |
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: Sidetic script Description of subject: The Sidetic script is an ancient Anatolian alphabetic writing system used in the city of Side in Pamphylia during the first millennium BCE.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.