Large Seal Script
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Large Seal Script is an early standardized form of Chinese writing used during the Zhou dynasty, characterized by its more complex and less regularized characters compared to the later Small Seal Script.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great Seal Script | 1 |
| Large Seal Script canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9889658 — 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: Large Seal Script Context triple: [Small Seal Script, precededBy, Large Seal Script]
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A.
Small Seal Script
Small Seal Script is an ancient standardized form of Chinese writing that was codified under the Qin dynasty and served as a key step in unifying written Chinese.
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B.
Khitan large script
Khitan large script was a logographic writing system developed by the Khitan people to record their language during the Liao dynasty in northern China.
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C.
STaM (Torah scroll script)
STaM is the traditional Hebrew calligraphic script used by scribes to write Torah scrolls, tefillin, and mezuzot according to precise religious and aesthetic rules.
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D.
Old Mon script
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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E.
Landa scripts
Landa scripts are a historical family of North Indian merchant and administrative scripts that served as precursors to several modern writing systems, including Gurmukhi.
- 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: Large Seal Script Target entity description: Large Seal Script is an early standardized form of Chinese writing used during the Zhou dynasty, characterized by its more complex and less regularized characters compared to the later Small Seal Script.
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A.
Small Seal Script
Small Seal Script is an ancient standardized form of Chinese writing that was codified under the Qin dynasty and served as a key step in unifying written Chinese.
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B.
Khitan large script
Khitan large script was a logographic writing system developed by the Khitan people to record their language during the Liao dynasty in northern China.
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C.
STaM (Torah scroll script)
STaM is the traditional Hebrew calligraphic script used by scribes to write Torah scrolls, tefillin, and mezuzot according to precise religious and aesthetic rules.
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D.
Old Mon script
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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E.
Landa scripts
Landa scripts are a historical family of North Indian merchant and administrative scripts that served as precursors to several modern writing systems, including Gurmukhi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese script
ⓘ
historical writing system ⓘ logographic script ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Great Seal Script
ⓘ
linked to:
Large Seal Script
|
| characteristics |
curvilinear and pictorial elements
ⓘ
high degree of graphic variation ⓘ less regularized shapes than Small Seal Script ⓘ more complex character forms than Small Seal Script ⓘ |
| classificationIssue | term sometimes used broadly for pre-Qin scripts other than Small Seal ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Zhou ritual and political culture ⓘ |
| encodingStatus | not separately encoded as a modern computer font standard ⓘ |
| followedBy | Small Seal Script ⓘ |
| function |
official inscriptions
ⓘ
recording political events ⓘ ritual inscriptions ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | superseded as standard script after Qin unification ⓘ |
| influenced |
Small Seal Script
ⓘ
later forms of Chinese calligraphy ⓘ |
| language | Old Chinese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 大篆 ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Bronze script
ⓘ
Oracle bone script ⓘ |
| region |
Ancient China
ⓘ
states of the Zhou dynasty ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Bronze script
ⓘ
Oracle bone script ⓘ Small Seal Script ⓘ |
| scriptCategory | ancient Chinese script ⓘ |
| scriptFamily |
Chinese characters
ⓘ
Seal script ⓘ |
| scriptType | logographic ⓘ |
| standardizationLevel | less standardized than Small Seal Script ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
1st millennium BCE
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before Qin unification ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Eastern Zhou period
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Zhou
Warring States period ⓘ Zhou dynasty ⓘ |
| usedOn |
bamboo slips
ⓘ
bronze inscriptions ⓘ stone inscriptions ⓘ wooden slips ⓘ |
| visualStyle |
less uniform stroke thickness than Small Seal Script
ⓘ
more archaic and pictographic appearance ⓘ |
| writingDirection |
columns ordered right-to-left
ⓘ
top-to-bottom ⓘ vertical columns ⓘ |
| writingMedium | inscribed with knives or brushes ⓘ |
| writingSystemOf | Chinese 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: Large Seal Script Description of subject: Large Seal Script is an early standardized form of Chinese writing used during the Zhou dynasty, characterized by its more complex and less regularized characters compared to the later Small Seal Script.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Large Seal Script