Cyrillic Extended-B
E23171
Cyrillic Extended-B is a Unicode block that contains additional Cyrillic characters used for writing various minority and historic languages that employ the Cyrillic script.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cyrillic Extended-B canonical | 3 |
| Cyrillic Extended-B Unicode block | 1 |
| Cyrillic_Ext_B | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T176895 — 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: Cyrillic Extended-B Context triple: [Cyrillic script, unicodeBlock, Cyrillic Extended-B]
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A.
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin-1 Supplement is a Unicode block that extends the basic Latin script with additional characters, including accented letters and symbols used in many Western European languages.
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B.
Latin Extended-B
Latin Extended-B is a Unicode block that adds additional Latin characters used for various historical, phonetic, and minority language orthographies beyond the basic Latin set.
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C.
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script is an alphabetic writing system used for many Slavic and other Eurasian languages, including Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.
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D.
Glagolitic script
Glagolitic script is the oldest known Slavic alphabet, created in the 9th century by Saints Cyril and Methodius for the translation of Christian texts into Old Church Slavonic.
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E.
Georgian script
The Georgian script is the unique alphabetic writing system used to write the Georgian language and several related Kartvelian 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: Cyrillic Extended-B Target entity description: Cyrillic Extended-B is a Unicode block that contains additional Cyrillic characters used for writing various minority and historic languages that employ the Cyrillic script.
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A.
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin-1 Supplement is a Unicode block that extends the basic Latin script with additional characters, including accented letters and symbols used in many Western European languages.
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B.
Latin Extended-B
Latin Extended-B is a Unicode block that adds additional Latin characters used for various historical, phonetic, and minority language orthographies beyond the basic Latin set.
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C.
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script is an alphabetic writing system used for many Slavic and other Eurasian languages, including Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.
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D.
Glagolitic script
Glagolitic script is the oldest known Slavic alphabet, created in the 9th century by Saints Cyril and Methodius for the translation of Christian texts into Old Church Slavonic.
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E.
Georgian script
The Georgian script is the unique alphabetic writing system used to write the Georgian language and several related Kartvelian languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Unicode block ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Cyrillic_Ext_B
ⓘ
linked to:
Cyrillic Extended-B
|
| blockEndHex | A69F ⓘ |
| blockName | Cyrillic Extended-B ⓘ |
| blockStartHex | A640 ⓘ |
| codePointRangeEnd | U+A69F ⓘ |
| codePointRangeStart | U+A640 ⓘ |
| contains |
Cyrillic combining marks
ⓘ
Cyrillic letters for Abkhaz ⓘ Cyrillic letters for Chuvash ⓘ Cyrillic letters for Khanty ⓘ Cyrillic letters for Komi ⓘ Cyrillic letters for Mordvin ⓘ Cyrillic letters for Nenets ⓘ Cyrillic letters for Nivkh ⓘ Cyrillic letters for Udmurt ⓘ Cyrillic letters for historic Church Slavonic orthographies ⓘ Cyrillic letters with descenders ⓘ Cyrillic letters with diacritics ⓘ Cyrillic letters with hooks ⓘ additional Cyrillic letters ⓘ historic Cyrillic letters ⓘ lowercase Cyrillic letters ⓘ uppercase Cyrillic letters ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
Unicode Standard Annex #44
ⓘ
linked to:
Unicode Standard Annexes
Unicode code charts for Cyrillic Extended-B ⓘ |
| encodingSystem | ISO/IEC 10646 ⓘ |
| hasBlockProperty | Block=Cyrillic_Extended-B ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Letter
ⓘ
Mark ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeProperty | Script=Cyrillic ⓘ |
| introducedInUnicodeVersion | Unicode 5.1 ⓘ |
| plane | Basic Multilingual Plane ⓘ |
| rangeSize | 96 code points ⓘ |
| relatedBlock |
Cyrillic
ⓘ
linked to:
Cyrillic script
Cyrillic Extended-A ⓘ Cyrillic Extended-C ⓘ Cyrillic Supplement ⓘ |
| script | Cyrillic ⓘ |
| standard | Unicode ⓘ |
| usedFor | orthographies of various Eurasian minority languages ⓘ |
| usedIn |
digital text encoding
ⓘ
font design ⓘ text rendering systems ⓘ |
| usesFor |
historic languages using Cyrillic script
ⓘ
minority languages using Cyrillic script ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| 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
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Input
Subject: Cyrillic Extended-B Description of subject: Cyrillic Extended-B is a Unicode block that contains additional Cyrillic characters used for writing various minority and historic languages that employ the Cyrillic script.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cyrillic Extended-B
linked to: Cyrillic Extended-B