Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar
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The Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar is a Senegalese research and academic institution specializing in the study, teaching, and standardization of local and regional languages, including Wolof.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar canonical | 1 |
| Senegalese language authorities | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1316618 — 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: Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar Context triple: [Wolof, regulatingBody, Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar]
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A.
Cheikh Anta Diop University
Cheikh Anta Diop University is a major public research university in Senegal and one of West Africa’s leading centers of higher education.
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B.
University of Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella
The University of Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella is a major public higher education and research institution located in the coastal city of Oran, Algeria.
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C.
Hassan II University of Casablanca
Hassan II University of Casablanca is a major public higher education and research institution in Morocco, offering a wide range of academic programs across multiple disciplines.
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D.
Université Paris Nanterre
Université Paris Nanterre is a major French public university in the Paris region, known for its strong programs in law, social sciences, and humanities and its historic role in the May 1968 student protests.
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E.
University of Algiers
The University of Algiers is a major public research university in Algeria’s capital, known as one of the oldest and most prominent higher education institutions in North Africa.
- 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: Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar Target entity description: The Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar is a Senegalese research and academic institution specializing in the study, teaching, and standardization of local and regional languages, including Wolof.
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A.
Cheikh Anta Diop University
Cheikh Anta Diop University is a major public research university in Senegal and one of West Africa’s leading centers of higher education.
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B.
University of Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella
The University of Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella is a major public higher education and research institution located in the coastal city of Oran, Algeria.
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C.
Hassan II University of Casablanca
Hassan II University of Casablanca is a major public higher education and research institution in Morocco, offering a wide range of academic programs across multiple disciplines.
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D.
Université Paris Nanterre
Université Paris Nanterre is a major French public university in the Paris region, known for its strong programs in law, social sciences, and humanities and its historic role in the May 1968 student protests.
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E.
University of Algiers
The University of Algiers is a major public research university in Algeria’s capital, known as one of the oldest and most prominent higher education institutions in North Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic institution
ⓘ
linguistics research center ⓘ research institute ⓘ |
| affiliation | Senegalese higher education system ⓘ |
| city | Dakar ⓘ |
| country | Senegal ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
African linguistics
ⓘ
applied linguistics ⓘ language standardization ⓘ language teaching ⓘ sociolinguistics ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Senegalese languages
ⓘ
Wolof ⓘ
surface form:
Wolof language
regional African languages ⓘ |
| hasAcademicActivity |
courses in African languages
ⓘ
courses in applied linguistics ⓘ language teacher training ⓘ |
| hasResearchActivity |
description of Wolof grammar
ⓘ
development of teaching materials for local languages ⓘ terminology standardization for African languages ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
French
ⓘ
Wolof ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dakar
ⓘ
Senegal ⓘ |
| mission |
development of language teaching methodologies
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promotion of local and regional languages ⓘ support for language policy in Senegal ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Senegal
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West Africa ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
standardization of local languages
ⓘ
study of local languages ⓘ teaching of local languages ⓘ |
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: Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar Description of subject: The Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar is a Senegalese research and academic institution specializing in the study, teaching, and standardization of local and regional languages, including Wolof.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Senegalese language authorities