Basic Multilingual Plane
E23919
The Basic Multilingual Plane is the primary block of the Unicode standard that contains the most commonly used characters for modern scripts and symbols.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Basic Multilingual Plane canonical | 60 |
| Basic Multilingual Plane Private Use Area | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T188857 — 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: Basic Multilingual Plane Context triple: [Latin Extended-B, plane, Basic Multilingual Plane]
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A.
Unicode
Unicode is a universal character encoding standard that assigns unique code points to virtually all written scripts, symbols, and emojis used in modern computing.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Cyrillic Extended-B
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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E.
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script is an alphabetic writing system used for many Slavic and other Eurasian languages, including Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.
- 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: Basic Multilingual Plane Target entity description: The Basic Multilingual Plane is the primary block of the Unicode standard that contains the most commonly used characters for modern scripts and symbols.
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A.
Unicode
Unicode is a universal character encoding standard that assigns unique code points to virtually all written scripts, symbols, and emojis used in modern computing.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Cyrillic Extended-B
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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E.
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script is an alphabetic writing system used for many Slavic and other Eurasian languages, including Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Unicode plane
ⓘ
character encoding block ⓘ subset of Unicode ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
BMP
ⓘ
Plane 0 ⓘ |
| codePointRangeEnd | U+FFFF ⓘ |
| codePointRangeEndDecimal | 65535 ⓘ |
| codePointRangeStart | U+0000 ⓘ |
| codePointRangeStartDecimal | 0 ⓘ |
| contains |
Arabic Presentation Forms-A
ⓘ
Arabic Presentation Forms-B ⓘ Arabic script characters ⓘ CJK Unified Ideographs (basic set) ⓘ Cyrillic Supplement block ⓘ Cyrillic script characters ⓘ Devanagari script characters ⓘ Greek Extended block ⓘ Greek script characters ⓘ Hangul syllables ⓘ Hebrew script characters ⓘ IPA extensions ⓘ Latin Extended blocks ⓘ Latin script characters ⓘ arrows block ⓘ block elements ⓘ box drawing characters ⓘ combining diacritical marks ⓘ control characters ⓘ currency symbols block ⓘ digits ⓘ dingbats ⓘ emoticons block ⓘ enclosed alphanumerics ⓘ general punctuation block ⓘ geometric shapes ⓘ halfwidth and fullwidth forms ⓘ letterlike symbols block ⓘ many other modern writing systems ⓘ mathematical operators block ⓘ miscellaneous symbols ⓘ miscellaneous technical symbols ⓘ most modern scripts ⓘ phonetic extensions ⓘ private use area ⓘ punctuation characters ⓘ specials block ⓘ surrogates area ⓘ |
| designGoal | cover most modern languages ⓘ |
| encodingNote |
characters can be encoded in UTF-16 without surrogate pairs
ⓘ
occupies the first 65,536 Unicode code points ⓘ |
| introducedIn | early versions of Unicode ⓘ |
| partOf |
Unicode Standard
ⓘ
linked to:
Unicode
|
| planeNumber | 0 ⓘ |
| role | primary plane for commonly used characters ⓘ |
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: Basic Multilingual Plane Description of subject: The Basic Multilingual Plane is the primary block of the Unicode standard that contains the most commonly used characters for modern scripts and symbols.
Referenced by (62)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Cyrillic Supplement block
subject linked to:
Grantha (U+11300–U+1137F)
subject linked to:
SMP
subject linked to:
Counting Rod Numerals block
subject linked to:
Geometric Shapes Extended block
subject linked to:
Ornamental Dingbats block
linked to: Basic Multilingual Plane
linked to: Basic Multilingual Plane