Khojki script
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The Khojki script is a historical writing system used primarily by the Nizari Ismaili community of South Asia to record religious and literary texts in languages such as Sindhi and Gujarati.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Khojki script canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3163484 — 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: Khojki script Context triple: [Landa scripts, precursorOf, Khojki script]
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A.
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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B.
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.
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C.
Shahmukhi script
Shahmukhi script is a Perso-Arabic–based writing system primarily used for writing the Punjabi language in Pakistan.
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D.
Kharoṣṭhī script
The Kharoṣṭhī script is an ancient right-to-left writing system used in northwestern South Asia, especially in the Gandhāra region, primarily for early Buddhist and administrative texts.
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E.
Ruqʿah script
Ruqʿah script is a simple, highly legible Arabic handwriting style commonly used for everyday writing and official documents in the Arab world.
- 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: Khojki script Target entity description: The Khojki script is a historical writing system used primarily by the Nizari Ismaili community of South Asia to record religious and literary texts in languages such as Sindhi and Gujarati.
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A.
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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B.
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.
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C.
Shahmukhi script
Shahmukhi script is a Perso-Arabic–based writing system primarily used for writing the Punjabi language in Pakistan.
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D.
Kharoṣṭhī script
The Kharoṣṭhī script is an ancient right-to-left writing system used in northwestern South Asia, especially in the Gandhāra region, primarily for early Buddhist and administrative texts.
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E.
Ruqʿah script
Ruqʿah script is a simple, highly legible Arabic handwriting style commonly used for everyday writing and official documents in the Arab world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brahmic script
ⓘ
writing system ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Khoja community
ⓘ
Nizari Ismaili religious tradition ⓘ |
| communityRole | esoteric and communal script ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Landa script
ⓘ
linked to:
Landa scripts
|
| direction | left-to-right ⓘ |
| distinctFrom |
Devanagari
ⓘ
linked to:
Devanagari script
Gujarati script ⓘ Perso-Arabic Sindhi script ⓘ |
| encodedIn | Unicode Standard ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
consonant letters
ⓘ
distinct punctuation signs ⓘ nasalization marks ⓘ vowel diacritics ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
early modern period
ⓘ
medieval period ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
preservation of community literature
ⓘ
recording Ismaili devotional compositions ⓘ |
| region |
Gujarat
ⓘ
Kutch ⓘ Sindh ⓘ |
| scriptCategory | South Asian script ⓘ |
| scriptCodeISO15924 | Khoj ⓘ |
| scriptFamily |
Indo-Aryan scripts
ⓘ
Landa scripts ⓘ |
| status |
historical
ⓘ
no longer in everyday use ⓘ |
| unicodeBlockName | Khojki ⓘ |
| unicodeBlockRange | U+11200–U+1124F ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Ismaili Muslims of South Asia
ⓘ
linked to:
South Asian Shia Muslims
Nizari Ismaili community ⓘ
linked to:
Ismaili Shia
|
| usedFor |
devotional literature
ⓘ
ginans ⓘ literary texts ⓘ manuscript production ⓘ religious texts ⓘ |
| usedIn | South Asia ⓘ |
| writingLanguage |
Gujarati
ⓘ
Hindustani ⓘ Kutchi ⓘ Sindhi ⓘ |
| writingMedium |
manuscripts
ⓘ
notebooks ⓘ paper ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | abugida ⓘ |
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: Khojki script Description of subject: The Khojki script is a historical writing system used primarily by the Nizari Ismaili community of South Asia to record religious and literary texts in languages such as Sindhi and Gujarati.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.