Latin Extended-B
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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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Latin Extended-B canonical | 3 |
| Latin Extended-A | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18710 — 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: Latin Extended-B Context triple: [Latin alphabet, hasExtendedForms, Latin Extended-B]
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A.
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet is the writing system originally used for Latin that has become the most widely adopted script in the world, forming the basis of many modern languages including English, Spanish, and French.
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B.
Vietnamese alphabet
The Vietnamese alphabet is a modern Latin-based writing system that uses additional diacritics to represent the tones and specific sounds of the Vietnamese language.
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C.
Old Italic script
Old Italic script is an ancient family of writing systems used on the Italian peninsula, from which the Latin alphabet ultimately evolved.
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D.
Kanji
Kanji are logographic characters of Chinese origin used in the Japanese writing system alongside hiragana and katakana.
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E.
NLS
NLS (oN-Line System) was an early, pioneering computer system that introduced many foundational concepts of modern computing, including the mouse, hypertext, and collaborative editing.
- 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: Latin Extended-B Target entity description: 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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A.
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet is the writing system originally used for Latin that has become the most widely adopted script in the world, forming the basis of many modern languages including English, Spanish, and French.
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B.
Vietnamese alphabet
The Vietnamese alphabet is a modern Latin-based writing system that uses additional diacritics to represent the tones and specific sounds of the Vietnamese language.
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C.
Old Italic script
Old Italic script is an ancient family of writing systems used on the Italian peninsula, from which the Latin alphabet ultimately evolved.
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D.
Kanji
Kanji are logographic characters of Chinese origin used in the Japanese writing system alongside hiragana and katakana.
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E.
NLS
NLS (oN-Line System) was an early, pioneering computer system that introduced many foundational concepts of modern computing, including the mouse, hypertext, and collaborative editing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Unicode block ⓘ |
| assignedInStandard | Unicode ⓘ |
| blockName | Latin Extended-B ⓘ |
| codePointRangeEnd | U+024F ⓘ |
| codePointRangeStart | U+0180 ⓘ |
| contains |
African language letters
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Croatian letters with stroke ⓘ Latin capital letter tone five (U+01BC) ⓘ Latin letter B with stroke (U+0180) ⓘ Latin letter bilabial click (U+0298-like variants in range) ⓘ Latin letter dental click (U+01C0-like variants in range) ⓘ Latin letter ezh with tail (U+01BA) ⓘ Latin letter glottal stop (U+0241, U+0242) ⓘ Latin letter lateral click (U+01C1-like variants in range) ⓘ Latin letter open o with hook (U+0254-like variants in range) ⓘ Latin letter retroflex click (U+01C3-like variants in range) ⓘ Latin letter reversed e (U+01DD) ⓘ Latin letter tone marks for African languages ⓘ Latin letter turned a (U+0250-like variants in range) ⓘ Latin letter turned e (U+01DD-like variants in range) ⓘ Latin letter wynn (U+01BF) ⓘ Latin letter yogh (U+021C, U+021D) ⓘ Latin letters ⓘ Latin small letter d with stroke (U+0111-like variants in range) ⓘ Latin small letter eng with hook (U+019E) ⓘ additional IPA-related letters ⓘ characters for historical orthographies ⓘ characters for minority language orthographies ⓘ letters with bar ⓘ letters with curl ⓘ letters with hook ⓘ letters with horn ⓘ letters with palatal hook ⓘ letters with retroflex hook ⓘ letters with stroke ⓘ letters with tail ⓘ phonetic click letters ⓘ phonetic symbols ⓘ reversed letters ⓘ turned letters ⓘ |
| introducedTo | extend Latin repertoire beyond Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement ⓘ |
| isAdjacentTo |
IPA Extensions
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Latin Extended-A ⓘ
linked to:
Latin Extended-B
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| plane | Basic Multilingual Plane ⓘ |
| script | Latin ⓘ |
| usedFor |
African language orthographies
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historical orthographies ⓘ linguistic research ⓘ minority language orthographies ⓘ phonetic transcription ⓘ transcription of click consonants ⓘ |
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: Latin Extended-B Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Latin Extended-B