Oyo Yoruba
E1562781
UNEXPLORED
The Oyo Yoruba are a major subgroup of the Yoruba people historically centered around the powerful Oyo Empire in what is now southwestern Nigeria.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Oyo Yoruba canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22953313 — 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: Oyo Yoruba Context triple: [Egba people, ethnicRelation, Oyo Yoruba]
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A.
Igbomina Yoruba
Igbomina Yoruba is a dialect of the Yoruba language spoken primarily by the Igbomina people in parts of Kwara and Osun States in southwestern Nigeria.
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B.
Akure Yoruba
Akure Yoruba is a regional dialect of the Yoruba language spoken primarily in and around the city of Akure in southwestern Nigeria.
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C.
Ekiti Yoruba
Ekiti Yoruba is a dialect of the Yoruba language spoken primarily in Ekiti State in southwestern Nigeria, distinguished by its unique phonological and lexical features.
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D.
Ijebu Yoruba
Ijebu Yoruba is a dialect of the Yoruba language spoken primarily by the Ijebu people of southwestern Nigeria, distinguished by its unique phonology and vocabulary within the Yoruba dialect continuum.
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E.
Yoruba orishas
The Yoruba orishas are a pantheon of deities and spiritual forces originating in the traditional religion of the Yoruba people of West Africa, each governing specific aspects of nature, human life, and destiny.
- 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: Oyo Yoruba Target entity description: The Oyo Yoruba are a major subgroup of the Yoruba people historically centered around the powerful Oyo Empire in what is now southwestern Nigeria.
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A.
Igbomina Yoruba
Igbomina Yoruba is a dialect of the Yoruba language spoken primarily by the Igbomina people in parts of Kwara and Osun States in southwestern Nigeria.
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B.
Akure Yoruba
Akure Yoruba is a regional dialect of the Yoruba language spoken primarily in and around the city of Akure in southwestern Nigeria.
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C.
Ekiti Yoruba
Ekiti Yoruba is a dialect of the Yoruba language spoken primarily in Ekiti State in southwestern Nigeria, distinguished by its unique phonological and lexical features.
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D.
Ijebu Yoruba
Ijebu Yoruba is a dialect of the Yoruba language spoken primarily by the Ijebu people of southwestern Nigeria, distinguished by its unique phonology and vocabulary within the Yoruba dialect continuum.
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E.
Yoruba orishas
The Yoruba orishas are a pantheon of deities and spiritual forces originating in the traditional religion of the Yoruba people of West Africa, each governing specific aspects of nature, human life, and destiny.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.