Nandinagari script
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Nandinagari script is a historical Brahmic script of southern India, primarily used to write Sanskrit and related languages in the Deccan region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nandinagari script canonical | 1 |
| Southern Nagari scripts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1770061 — 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: Nandinagari script Context triple: [Nagari script, hasDescendant, Nandinagari script]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Devanagari script
Devanagari script is an abugida writing system used for several major South Asian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit.
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D.
Grantha script
Grantha script is a historical South Indian writing system primarily used to record Sanskrit texts, especially in the Tamil-speaking regions.
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E.
Nagari script
Nagari script is an early North Indian writing system that evolved into later scripts such as Devanagari and was used historically for writing Sanskrit and related languages.
- 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: Nandinagari script Target entity description: Nandinagari script is a historical Brahmic script of southern India, primarily used to write Sanskrit and related languages in the Deccan region.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Devanagari script
Devanagari script is an abugida writing system used for several major South Asian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit.
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D.
Grantha script
Grantha script is a historical South Indian writing system primarily used to record Sanskrit texts, especially in the Tamil-speaking regions.
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E.
Nagari script
Nagari script is an early North Indian writing system that evolved into later scripts such as Devanagari and was used historically for writing Sanskrit and related languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brahmic script
ⓘ
abugida ⓘ historical script ⓘ |
| addedToUnicodeVersion | Unicode 12.0 ⓘ |
| addedToUnicodeYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Gupta script
ⓘ
Nagari script ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Brahmi script ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
conjunct consonants
ⓘ
distinct numerals ⓘ distinct vowel signs ⓘ headstroke-less letterforms ⓘ inherent vowel /a/ ⓘ rounded shapes ⓘ vowel diacritics ⓘ |
| inUseUntil | 19th century CE ⓘ |
| notableManuscriptCenters |
Hampi
ⓘ
Mysore ⓘ
linked to:
Mysuru
Shringeri ⓘ |
| primarilyUsedBy |
scholars
ⓘ
scribes ⓘ |
| scriptCodeISO15924 | Nand ⓘ |
| scriptFamily |
Nagari scripts
ⓘ
linked to:
Nagari script
Southern Nagari scripts ⓘ
linked to:
Nandinagari script
|
| sisterScript |
Devanagari
ⓘ
linked to:
Devanagari script
Grantha script ⓘ Kannada script ⓘ Telugu script ⓘ |
| status | no longer in everyday use ⓘ |
| timePeriod | approximately 8th century CE to 19th century CE ⓘ |
| typicalUsage |
copying Sanskrit manuscripts
ⓘ
philosophical works ⓘ religious texts ⓘ scientific treatises ⓘ |
| unicodeBlock | Nandinagari ⓘ |
| unicodeRange | U+119A0–U+119FF ⓘ |
| usedFor |
writing Kannada
ⓘ
writing Marathi ⓘ writing Sanskrit ⓘ writing Telugu ⓘ |
| usedForReligion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Hinduism ⓘ Jainism ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Andhra Pradesh
ⓘ
Deccan ⓘ
linked to:
Deccan Plateau
Karnataka ⓘ Maharashtra ⓘ South India ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| writingSystemScope | historical ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | alphasyllabary ⓘ |
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: Nandinagari script Description of subject: Nandinagari script is a historical Brahmic script of southern India, primarily used to write Sanskrit and related languages in the Deccan region.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nandinagari script