Arabic Extended-A
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Arabic Extended-A is a Unicode block that provides additional Arabic script characters used for writing languages such as Uyghur and other non-Arabic languages.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arabic Extended-A canonical | 2 |
| Arabic Extended-A block | 1 |
| ArabicExtA | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7347116 — 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: Arabic Extended-A Context triple: [Uyghur Arabic alphabet, hasUnicodeBlock, Arabic Extended-A]
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A.
Perso-Arabic script
The Perso-Arabic script is a modified form of the Arabic writing system, expanded with additional letters and conventions to represent the sounds of Persian and several other languages across the Middle East and South Asia.
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B.
Arabic alphabet
The Arabic alphabet is a cursive, right-to-left abjad script used across the Arab world and adapted for many other languages, including Persian, Urdu, and Pashto.
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C.
Arabic Supplement
Arabic Supplement is a Unicode block that contains additional Arabic script characters used for extended orthographic and contextual purposes beyond the basic Arabic block.
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D.
South Arabian script
The South Arabian script is an ancient consonantal writing system used in the southern Arabian Peninsula, notably by the Sabaean and related cultures, and is a distinct branch of the early Semitic alphabets.
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E.
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.
- 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: Arabic Extended-A Target entity description: Arabic Extended-A is a Unicode block that provides additional Arabic script characters used for writing languages such as Uyghur and other non-Arabic languages.
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A.
Perso-Arabic script
The Perso-Arabic script is a modified form of the Arabic writing system, expanded with additional letters and conventions to represent the sounds of Persian and several other languages across the Middle East and South Asia.
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B.
Arabic alphabet
The Arabic alphabet is a cursive, right-to-left abjad script used across the Arab world and adapted for many other languages, including Persian, Urdu, and Pashto.
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C.
Arabic Supplement
Arabic Supplement is a Unicode block that contains additional Arabic script characters used for extended orthographic and contextual purposes beyond the basic Arabic block.
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D.
South Arabian script
The South Arabian script is an ancient consonantal writing system used in the southern Arabian Peninsula, notably by the Sabaean and related cultures, and is a distinct branch of the early Semitic alphabets.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Unicode block ⓘ |
| blockName | Arabic Extended-A ⓘ |
| blockSize | 96 code points ⓘ |
| codePointRangeEnd | U+08FF ⓘ |
| codePointRangeStart | U+08A0 ⓘ |
| contains |
Arabic letter variants
ⓘ
Quranic annotation signs ⓘ additional Arabic script characters ⓘ characters for African languages using Arabic script ⓘ characters for Central Asian languages using Arabic script ⓘ extended Arabic letters for non-Arabic languages ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
ArabicExtA
ⓘ
linked to:
Arabic Extended-A
|
| introducedIn | Unicode 6.1 ⓘ |
| neighborBlockNext | Arabic Extended-B ⓘ |
| neighborBlockPrevious | Arabic Extended ⓘ |
| partOf | Unicode Standard ⓘ |
| plane | Basic Multilingual Plane ⓘ |
| rangeNotation | 08A0–08FF ⓘ |
| script | Arabic ⓘ |
| standard | Unicode ⓘ |
| usedForWriting |
African languages using Arabic script
ⓘ
Central Asian languages using Arabic script ⓘ Uyghur ⓘ
linked to:
Uyghur Arabic alphabet
languages of the Middle East using extended Arabic letters ⓘ non-Arabic languages ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Arabic script ⓘ |
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: Arabic Extended-A Description of subject: Arabic Extended-A is a Unicode block that provides additional Arabic script characters used for writing languages such as Uyghur and other non-Arabic languages.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Arabic Extended-A
linked to: Arabic Extended-A