Lomwe
E147444
Lomwe is a Bantu language spoken primarily in Mozambique and Malawi by the Lomwe people.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lomwe canonical | 2 |
| Cilomwe | 1 |
| Malawi Lomwe | 1 |
| Mozambique Lomwe | 1 |
| Silozi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1187839 — 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: Lomwe Context triple: [Southern Bantu, hasMemberLanguage, Lomwe]
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A.
Makhuwa
Makhuwa is a major Bantu language spoken primarily in northern Mozambique by the Makhuwa people.
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B.
Lilangeni
The lilangeni is the official monetary unit of Eswatini, subdivided into 100 cents and commonly used alongside the South African rand.
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C.
Lusiana
Lusiana is a small town in the Veneto region of northern Italy, known as the birthplace of Indian politician Sonia Gandhi.
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D.
Bongi
Bongi is a neighborhood located in the city of Recife, in northeastern Brazil.
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E.
Kasulu
Kasulu is a town in western Tanzania that serves as one of the main urban and commercial centers of the Kigoma Region.
- 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: Lomwe Target entity description: Lomwe is a Bantu language spoken primarily in Mozambique and Malawi by the Lomwe people.
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A.
Makhuwa
Makhuwa is a major Bantu language spoken primarily in northern Mozambique by the Makhuwa people.
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B.
Lilangeni
The lilangeni is the official monetary unit of Eswatini, subdivided into 100 cents and commonly used alongside the South African rand.
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C.
Lusiana
Lusiana is a small town in the Veneto region of northern Italy, known as the birthplace of Indian politician Sonia Gandhi.
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D.
Bongi
Bongi is a neighborhood located in the city of Recife, in northeastern Brazil.
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E.
Kasulu
Kasulu is a town in western Tanzania that serves as one of the main urban and commercial centers of the Kigoma Region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bantu language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Chuwabu
ⓘ
Makhuwa ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country |
Malawi
ⓘ
Mozambique ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupAssociated | Lomwe people ⓘ |
| glottologCode | lomw1238 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Lomwe self-link ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Lomwe
ⓘ
surface form:
Cilomwe
Echilómwe ⓘ Elomwe ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Lomwe of Milange
ⓘ
Lomwe self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Malawi Lomwe
Lomwe self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mozambique Lomwe
|
| hasMorphologicalFeature | extensive verb morphology ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Chichewa
ⓘ
surface form:
Chewa
Makonde ⓘ Sena ⓘ Yao ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | tone language ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature | basic SVO word order ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | ngl ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
Atlantic–Congo languages
ⓘ
Benue–Congo languages ⓘ Niger–Congo languages ⓘ Southern Bantu languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Bantu languages ⓘ |
| languageOf |
Lomwe folktales
ⓘ
Lomwe traditional songs ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology |
agglutinative language
ⓘ
noun class language ⓘ |
| primaryStatus | living language ⓘ |
| region |
northern Mozambique
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Mozambique
Southern Malawi ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Lomwe people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Malawi
ⓘ
Mozambique ⓘ |
| standardizedOrthography | partially developed in Mozambique ⓘ |
| subfamily | Makhuwa languages ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday communication
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ |
| usedIn |
education at local level in parts of Mozambique
ⓘ
religious activities in Lomwe communities ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
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: Lomwe Description of subject: Lomwe is a Bantu language spoken primarily in Mozambique and Malawi by the Lomwe people.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Silozi
this entity surface form:
Malawi Lomwe
this entity surface form:
Mozambique Lomwe
this entity surface form:
Cilomwe