Old Mon script
E353435
Old Mon script is an ancient writing system used for the Mon language of mainland Southeast Asia, notable for its early role in the development of regional scripts and inscriptions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Mon script canonical | 4 |
| Modern Mon script | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3391034 — 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: Old Mon script Context triple: [Pallava script, influenced, Old Mon script]
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A.
Madnhaya script
The Madnhaya script is a modern cursive form of the Syriac alphabet used primarily by Assyrian and Chaldean Christian communities in liturgical and literary contexts.
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B.
Kawi script
Kawi script is an ancient Brahmic-derived writing system historically used across Java and other parts of Southeast Asia to write Old Javanese and related languages.
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C.
Tigalari script
The Tigalari script is a historical South Indian writing system used primarily to write Tulu and Sanskrit, closely related to other southern Brahmic scripts.
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D.
Lontara script
The Lontara script is an indigenous writing system traditionally used by the Bugis and Makassarese peoples of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, to write their Austronesian languages.
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E.
Borama script
The Borama script is an indigenous writing system historically used by some Somali communities to represent the Somali language before the adoption of more widespread scripts.
- 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: Old Mon script Target entity description: Old Mon script is an ancient writing system used for the Mon language of mainland Southeast Asia, notable for its early role in the development of regional scripts and inscriptions.
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A.
Madnhaya script
The Madnhaya script is a modern cursive form of the Syriac alphabet used primarily by Assyrian and Chaldean Christian communities in liturgical and literary contexts.
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B.
Kawi script
Kawi script is an ancient Brahmic-derived writing system historically used across Java and other parts of Southeast Asia to write Old Javanese and related languages.
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C.
Tigalari script
The Tigalari script is a historical South Indian writing system used primarily to write Tulu and Sanskrit, closely related to other southern Brahmic scripts.
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D.
Lontara script
The Lontara script is an indigenous writing system traditionally used by the Bugis and Makassarese peoples of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, to write their Austronesian languages.
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E.
Borama script
The Borama script is an indigenous writing system historically used by some Somali communities to represent the Somali language before the adoption of more widespread scripts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brahmic script
ⓘ
abugida ⓘ writing system ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion |
Hinduism
ⓘ
Theravada Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Theravada
|
| derivedFrom | Pallava script ⓘ |
| geopoliticalContext |
Dvaravati polities
ⓘ
linked to:
Dvaravati
early Burmese polities ⓘ |
| hasContextOfUse |
court culture
ⓘ
monastic culture ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
conjunct consonants
ⓘ
inherent vowel ⓘ vowel diacritics ⓘ |
| hasGlyphStyle | rounded letterforms ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeBlock | no dedicated Unicode block ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystemType | consonant-based ⓘ |
| historicalStatus |
ancestor of several mainland Southeast Asian scripts
ⓘ
ancient script ⓘ |
| influenced |
Burmese script
ⓘ
Khmer script ⓘ Lanna script ⓘ
linked to:
Tai Tham script
Thai script ⓘ |
| languageFamilyWritten |
Austroasiatic languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Austroasiatic
|
| primaryLanguageWritten |
Old Mon language
ⓘ
linked to:
Mon language
|
| relatedTo |
Burmese script
ⓘ
Khmer script ⓘ Modern Mon script ⓘ
linked to:
Old Mon script
|
| scriptFamily | Brahmic scripts ⓘ |
| scriptLineage |
Brahmi script
ⓘ
Pallava script ⓘ Southern Brahmi ⓘ |
| scriptType | alphasyllabary ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early second millennium CE
ⓘ
first millennium CE ⓘ |
| usedBy | Mon people ⓘ |
| usedFor |
donative inscriptions
ⓘ
inscriptions ⓘ religious texts ⓘ royal inscriptions ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Dvaravati region
ⓘ
linked to:
Dvaravati
Lower Burma ⓘ
linked to:
southern Myanmar
mainland Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| writingMedium |
manuscripts
ⓘ
metal inscriptions ⓘ stone inscriptions ⓘ |
| writingSystemFor | Mon language ⓘ |
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: Old Mon script Description of subject: Old Mon script is an ancient writing system used for the Mon language of mainland Southeast Asia, notable for its early role in the development of regional scripts and inscriptions.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Old Mon script
linked to: Old Mon script