Foodo language
E155054
The Foodo language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Foodo people in parts of Togo and neighboring West African regions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Foodo language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1340501 — 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: Foodo language Context triple: [Kwa languages, hasSubgroup, Foodo language]
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A.
Fang language
Fang is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Fang people of Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Cameroon, notable for its significant influence on local varieties of Spanish and French.
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B.
Fala language
Fala is a small Ibero-Romance language spoken in a few villages in Spain’s Extremadura region, notable for its close relation to Galician-Portuguese and its strong local identity.
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C.
Uma language
Uma is an Austronesian language of the Celebic subgroup spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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D.
Padoe language
The Padoe language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Padoe people of Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the broader South Sulawesi linguistic group.
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E.
Bugotu language
The Bugotu language is an Oceanic language spoken by the Bugotu people of Santa Isabel Island in the Solomon Islands.
- 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: Foodo language Target entity description: The Foodo language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Foodo people in parts of Togo and neighboring West African regions.
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A.
Fang language
Fang is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Fang people of Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Cameroon, notable for its significant influence on local varieties of Spanish and French.
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B.
Fala language
Fala is a small Ibero-Romance language spoken in a few villages in Spain’s Extremadura region, notable for its close relation to Galician-Portuguese and its strong local identity.
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C.
Uma language
Uma is an Austronesian language of the Celebic subgroup spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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D.
Padoe language
The Padoe language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Padoe people of Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the broader South Sulawesi linguistic group.
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E.
Bugotu language
The Bugotu language is an Oceanic language spoken by the Bugotu people of Santa Isabel Island in the Solomon Islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Niger-Congo language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Niger-Congo languages of West Africa ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Togo ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Foodo people ⓘ |
| family |
Niger-Congo
ⓘ
linked to:
Niger–Congo languages
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Fodo
ⓘ
Foɗo ⓘ Foɗof ⓘ Fudu ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | food1238 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName |
Foodo
ⓘ
linked to:
Foodo people
|
| hasISO639-3Code | fod ⓘ |
| languageFamilyBranch | Gur ⓘ |
| languageStatus |
local language
ⓘ
minority language ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguages |
Ewe language
ⓘ
linked to:
Ewe
Kabiye language ⓘ Tem language ⓘ |
| primaryUse | oral communication ⓘ |
| region | northern Togo ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Togo
ⓘ
West Africa ⓘ |
| subfamily | Gur languages ⓘ |
| usedBy | Foodo community ⓘ |
| usedIn |
daily life
ⓘ
local trade ⓘ traditional culture ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
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: Foodo language Description of subject: The Foodo language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Foodo people in parts of Togo and neighboring West African regions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.