Zone N (Guthrie classification)
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Zone N in the Guthrie classification is a group of closely related Bantu languages, known as the Sena–Nyanja languages, spoken primarily in parts of southeastern Africa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zone N (Guthrie classification) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13219061 — 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: Zone N (Guthrie classification) Context triple: [Sena–Nyanja languages, linguisticClassification, Zone N (Guthrie classification)]
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A.
Zone L (Guthrie classification)
Zone L in the Guthrie classification is a group of closely related Bantu languages centered around Tshiluba and its dialects in south-central Africa.
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B.
Zone 5
Zone 5 is an outer fare zone in the London public transport system used for calculating ticket and Travelcard prices.
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C.
Zone 1A
Zone 1A is a central MBTA subway fare zone in Boston that includes Park Street station and other core downtown stops.
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D.
Zone E
Zone E is a Metra commuter rail fare zone in the Chicago metropolitan area used to determine ticket prices based on distance traveled.
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E.
Zone G
Zone G is a designated fare zone within the Glasgow Subway ticketing system that includes Kelvinbridge subway station.
- 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: Zone N (Guthrie classification) Target entity description: Zone N in the Guthrie classification is a group of closely related Bantu languages, known as the Sena–Nyanja languages, spoken primarily in parts of southeastern Africa.
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A.
Zone L (Guthrie classification)
Zone L in the Guthrie classification is a group of closely related Bantu languages centered around Tshiluba and its dialects in south-central Africa.
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B.
Zone 5
Zone 5 is an outer fare zone in the London public transport system used for calculating ticket and Travelcard prices.
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C.
Zone 1A
Zone 1A is a central MBTA subway fare zone in Boston that includes Park Street station and other core downtown stops.
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D.
Zone E
Zone E is a Metra commuter rail fare zone in the Chicago metropolitan area used to determine ticket prices based on distance traveled.
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E.
Zone G
Zone G is a designated fare zone within the Glasgow Subway ticketing system that includes Kelvinbridge subway station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bantu language group
ⓘ
Guthrie Bantu zone ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Sena–Nyanja languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | Benue–Congo languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classificationCriterion |
partly linguistic
ⓘ
primarily geographic ⓘ |
| codeRange | N10–N40 ⓘ |
| containsSubgroup |
N10 group
ⓘ
N20 group NERFINISHED ⓘ N30 group ⓘ N40 group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Malawi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mozambique NERFINISHED ⓘ Zambia NERFINISHED ⓘ Zimbabwe NERFINISHED ⓘ parts of Tanzania ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
noun class system ⓘ rich verbal inflection ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Chichewa language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chinyanja language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kunda language NERFINISHED ⓘ Mang’anja language NERFINISHED ⓘ Nsenga language NERFINISHED ⓘ Nyungwe language NERFINISHED ⓘ Phimbi language NERFINISHED ⓘ Sena language NERFINISHED ⓘ Senga language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tonga (Malawi) language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tumbuka–Sena transitional varieties ⓘ |
| includesDialectCluster |
Nyanja dialect cluster
GENERATED
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Sena dialect cluster GENERATED ⓘ |
| linguisticFeature | closely related Bantu languages ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southeastern Africa ⓘ |
| macroFamily | Niger–Congo languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Sena and Nyanja languages ⓘ |
| partOf | Guthrie classification of Bantu languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| proposedBy | Malcolm Guthrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subBranch | Southern Bantu languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subFamily | Atlantic–Congo languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Bantu languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeOfProposal | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| typicalWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| usedIn |
African language classification
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comparative Bantu linguistics ⓘ |
| writingSystemsUsed | Latin 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: Zone N (Guthrie classification) Description of subject: Zone N in the Guthrie classification is a group of closely related Bantu languages, known as the Sena–Nyanja languages, spoken primarily in parts of southeastern Africa.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.