Ol Chiki script
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Ol Chiki script is an alphabetic writing system specifically created in the 20th century for the Santhali language, used primarily by the Santal people of eastern India and neighboring regions.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ol Chiki script canonical | 11 |
| Ol Chiki | 6 |
| Ol Chiki (for Santali) | 1 |
| Ol Chiki (historically used for some)} | 1 |
| Ol Chiki literature | 1 |
| Ol Chiki script (for Santali) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1770000 — 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: Ol Chiki script Context triple: [Santhali, writingSystem, Ol Chiki script]
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A.
Sharada script
The Sharada script is an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in the northwestern Indian subcontinent, especially in Kashmir, primarily for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri.
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B.
Odia script
Odia script is an abugida of the Brahmic family used primarily to write the Odia language and several other regional Indo-Aryan languages of eastern India.
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C.
Kaithi script
The Kaithi script is a historical Brahmic writing system of northern India that was widely used for administrative and literary purposes in several Indo-Aryan languages, including Bhojpuri.
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D.
Brahmi script
The Brahmi script is one of the oldest writing systems of the Indian subcontinent, serving as the ancestor of most modern South and Southeast Asian scripts.
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E.
Devanagari script
Devanagari script is an abugida writing system used for several major South Asian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit.
- 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: Ol Chiki script Target entity description: Ol Chiki script is an alphabetic writing system specifically created in the 20th century for the Santhali language, used primarily by the Santal people of eastern India and neighboring regions.
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A.
Sharada script
The Sharada script is an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in the northwestern Indian subcontinent, especially in Kashmir, primarily for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri.
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B.
Odia script
Odia script is an abugida of the Brahmic family used primarily to write the Odia language and several other regional Indo-Aryan languages of eastern India.
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C.
Kaithi script
The Kaithi script is a historical Brahmic writing system of northern India that was widely used for administrative and literary purposes in several Indo-Aryan languages, including Bhojpuri.
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D.
Brahmi script
The Brahmi script is one of the oldest writing systems of the Indian subcontinent, serving as the ancestor of most modern South and Southeast Asian scripts.
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E.
Devanagari script
Devanagari script is an abugida writing system used for several major South Asian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alphabet
ⓘ
writing system ⓘ |
| associatedEthnicGroup |
Santal
ⓘ
linked to:
Santalī
|
| associatedLanguageFamily | Munda languages ⓘ |
| characterSetType |
non-abjad
ⓘ
non-abugida ⓘ true alphabet ⓘ |
| creationPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| creationYear | 1925 ⓘ |
| creator |
Pandit Raghunath Murmu
ⓘ
linked to:
Raghunath Murmu
|
| designGoal | represent Santali phonology accurately ⓘ |
| digitalFontsAvailable | true ⓘ |
| digitalSupport | available in major operating systems ⓘ |
| hasCaseDistinction | false ⓘ |
| hasConsonants | 24 ⓘ |
| hasDistinctConsonantLetters | true ⓘ |
| hasDistinctVowelLetters | true ⓘ |
| hasLetters | 30 ⓘ |
| hasNumerals | true ⓘ |
| hasPunctuation | true ⓘ |
| hasVowels | 6 ⓘ |
| ISO15924Code | Olck ⓘ |
| notDerivedFrom | Brahmic scripts ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage |
Santali language
ⓘ
linked to:
Santhali
|
| primaryUsagePeriod | late 20th century to present ⓘ |
| purpose | to write the Santali language ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Government of India ⓘ |
| region | eastern India ⓘ |
| scriptCategory | featural elements ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| status | official script for Santali in India ⓘ |
| UnicodeBlockName |
Ol Chiki
ⓘ
linked to:
Ol Chiki script
|
| UnicodeBlockRange | U+1C50–U+1C7F ⓘ |
| UnicodeVersionIntroduced | 5.1 ⓘ |
| usedBy | Santal people ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Santali literature
ⓘ
education in Santali ⓘ newspapers in Santali ⓘ religious texts in Santali ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Bangladesh
ⓘ
India ⓘ Nepal ⓘ |
| usedInOfficialDocuments | true ⓘ |
| usedInSignage | true ⓘ |
| writingSystemFamily | indigenous scripts of India ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | alphabetic script ⓘ |
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: Ol Chiki script Description of subject: Ol Chiki script is an alphabetic writing system specifically created in the 20th century for the Santhali language, used primarily by the Santal people of eastern India and neighboring regions.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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