Hiragana
E3828
Hiragana is a Japanese phonetic syllabary used primarily for native words, grammatical elements, and beginners’ reading and writing.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hiragana canonical | 35 |
| Kana | 2 |
| hiragana | 2 |
| Unicode Hiragana block | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8733 — 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: Hiragana Context triple: [Japan, writingSystem, Hiragana]
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A.
Kanji
Kanji are logographic characters of Chinese origin used in the Japanese writing system alongside hiragana and katakana.
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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.
Kimigayo
Kimigayo is the national anthem of Japan, known for its extremely short length and lyrics derived from a Heian-period waka poem expressing wishes for the emperor’s enduring reign.
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D.
Hinomaru
Hinomaru is the national flag of Japan, featuring a red circle centered on a white field symbolizing the rising sun.
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E.
Japanese yen
The Japanese yen is Japan's official fiat currency and one of the world's most traded reserve currencies in global foreign exchange markets.
- 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: Hiragana Target entity description: Hiragana is a Japanese phonetic syllabary used primarily for native words, grammatical elements, and beginners’ reading and writing.
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A.
Kanji
Kanji are logographic characters of Chinese origin used in the Japanese writing system alongside hiragana and katakana.
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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.
Kimigayo
Kimigayo is the national anthem of Japan, known for its extremely short length and lyrics derived from a Heian-period waka poem expressing wishes for the emperor’s enduring reign.
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D.
Hinomaru
Hinomaru is the national flag of Japan, featuring a red circle centered on a white field symbolizing the rising sun.
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E.
Japanese yen
The Japanese yen is Japan's official fiat currency and one of the world's most traded reserve currencies in global foreign exchange markets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (79)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese syllabary
ⓘ
writing system ⓘ |
| contrastWith |
Kanji as logographic characters
ⓘ
Katakana as foreign-word syllabary ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
あ
ⓘ
い ⓘ う ⓘ え ⓘ お ⓘ か ⓘ き ⓘ く ⓘ け ⓘ こ ⓘ さ ⓘ し ⓘ す ⓘ せ ⓘ そ ⓘ た ⓘ ち ⓘ つ ⓘ て ⓘ と ⓘ な ⓘ に ⓘ ぬ ⓘ ね ⓘ の ⓘ は ⓘ ひ ⓘ ふ ⓘ へ ⓘ ほ ⓘ ま ⓘ み ⓘ む ⓘ め ⓘ も ⓘ や ⓘ ゆ ⓘ よ ⓘ ら ⓘ り ⓘ る ⓘ れ ⓘ ろ ⓘ わ ⓘ を ⓘ ん ⓘ |
| hasDiacritic |
dakuten
ⓘ
handakuten ⓘ |
| historicalDevelopment | simplified cursive forms of Chinese characters ⓘ |
| ISO15924Code | Hira ⓘ |
| numberOfBasicCharacters | 46 ⓘ |
| originatedFrom | manyogana ⓘ |
| scriptType |
phonetic script
ⓘ
syllabary ⓘ |
| standardizedIn | modern Japanese orthography ⓘ |
| supports |
p-sound syllables
ⓘ
voiced consonant syllables ⓘ |
| UnicodeBlock | Hiragana ⓘ |
| UnicodeRange | 3040–309F ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
Kanji
ⓘ
Katakana ⓘ Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedBy |
children in Japan
ⓘ
learners of Japanese as a foreign language ⓘ |
| usedFor |
beginners’ reading
ⓘ
beginners’ writing ⓘ furigana ⓘ grammatical particles ⓘ inflectional endings ⓘ native Japanese words ⓘ okurigana ⓘ phonetic transcription of Japanese ⓘ |
| writingDirection |
horizontal left-to-right
ⓘ
vertical top-to-bottom ⓘ |
| writingSystemOf |
Japanese language
ⓘ
linked to:
Japanese
|
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: Hiragana Description of subject: Hiragana is a Japanese phonetic syllabary used primarily for native words, grammatical elements, and beginners’ reading and writing.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hiragana
linked to: Hiragana
linked to: Hiragana
subject linked to:
Ōse village, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
linked to: Hiragana
linked to: Hiragana
subject linked to:
Kana Supplement block
subject linked to:
Tomiya City
subject linked to:
Haruka means distant or far away in Japanese