Kiranti languages
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The Kiranti languages are a group of closely related Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily by the Kirati peoples of eastern Nepal.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kiranti languages canonical | 31 |
| Kirant languages | 2 |
| Kiranti language | 2 |
| Kiranti language group | 1 |
| Kirati languages | 1 |
| Proto-Kiranti language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1173181 — 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: Kiranti languages Context triple: [Sino-Tibetan languages, includesLanguage, Kiranti languages]
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A.
Nuristani languages
Nuristani languages are a small, distinct group of Indo-Iranian languages spoken primarily in the remote Nuristan region of eastern Afghanistan.
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B.
Khoe languages
Khoe languages are a branch of southern African languages spoken mainly by Khoe peoples, known for their use of click consonants and distinct grammatical structures.
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C.
Saka languages
The Saka languages are an extinct group of Eastern Iranian languages once spoken by the Saka (Scythian) peoples of Central Asia, including varieties such as Khotanese and Tumshuqese.
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D.
Gur languages
Gur languages are a large branch of the Niger–Congo language family spoken primarily in West Africa, especially in countries such as Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, and Ivory Coast.
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E.
Kurukh
Kurukh is an indigenous Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Oraon tribal communities in eastern and central India.
- 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: Kiranti languages Target entity description: The Kiranti languages are a group of closely related Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily by the Kirati peoples of eastern Nepal.
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A.
Nuristani languages
Nuristani languages are a small, distinct group of Indo-Iranian languages spoken primarily in the remote Nuristan region of eastern Afghanistan.
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B.
Khoe languages
Khoe languages are a branch of southern African languages spoken mainly by Khoe peoples, known for their use of click consonants and distinct grammatical structures.
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C.
Saka languages
The Saka languages are an extinct group of Eastern Iranian languages once spoken by the Saka (Scythian) peoples of Central Asia, including varieties such as Khotanese and Tumshuqese.
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D.
Gur languages
Gur languages are a large branch of the Niger–Congo language family spoken primarily in West Africa, especially in countries such as Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, and Ivory Coast.
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E.
Kurukh
Kurukh is an indigenous Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Oraon tribal communities in eastern and central India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Kiranti languages Description of subject: The Kiranti languages are a group of closely related Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily by the Kirati peoples of eastern Nepal.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Thulung Rai