Ho language
E199648
Ho language is an Austroasiatic language of the Munda family spoken primarily by the Ho people in eastern India, particularly in Jharkhand and Odisha.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ho language canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1770031 — 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: Ho language Context triple: [Santhali, closelyRelatedTo, Ho language]
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A.
Ha language
Ha language is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Ha people in western Tanzania, particularly around the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
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B.
Hoava language
The Hoava language is an Oceanic language spoken by communities in the western Solomon Islands, particularly on New Georgia Island.
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C.
Hoanya language
The Hoanya language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Hoanya people of western Taiwan and classified among the indigenous Formosan languages.
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D.
Hokkien language
The Hokkien language is a Southern Min Chinese dialect widely spoken in southeastern China and among overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, known for its significant influence on regional languages and cultures.
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E.
Hadza language
The Hadza language is an isolate spoken by the Hadza people of northern Tanzania, notable for its extensive use of click consonants and lack of clear genetic affiliation to other language families.
- 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: Ho language Target entity description: Ho language is an Austroasiatic language of the Munda family spoken primarily by the Ho people in eastern India, particularly in Jharkhand and Odisha.
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A.
Ha language
Ha language is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Ha people in western Tanzania, particularly around the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
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B.
Hoava language
The Hoava language is an Oceanic language spoken by communities in the western Solomon Islands, particularly on New Georgia Island.
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C.
Hoanya language
The Hoanya language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Hoanya people of western Taiwan and classified among the indigenous Formosan languages.
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D.
Hokkien language
The Hokkien language is a Southern Min Chinese dialect widely spoken in southeastern China and among overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, known for its significant influence on regional languages and cultures.
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E.
Hadza language
The Hadza language is an isolate spoken by the Hadza people of northern Tanzania, notable for its extensive use of click consonants and lack of clear genetic affiliation to other language families.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austroasiatic language
ⓘ
Munda language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | South Asia ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Mundari
ⓘ
surface form:
Mundari language
Santhali ⓘ
surface form:
Santali language
|
| country | India ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ho people ⓘ |
| family | Munda ⓘ |
| glottocode | hooo1244 ⓘ |
| hasCaseMarking | postpositional case markers ⓘ |
| hasCommunityEfforts | language revitalization initiatives ⓘ |
| hasDialects | various regional dialects ⓘ |
| hasDigitalPresence |
Unicode support for Warang Citi
ⓘ
online content and social media use ⓘ |
| hasLiterature |
modern printed literature
ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ |
| hasNumeralSystem | decimal ⓘ |
| hasOfficialRecognition | state-level recognition in Jharkhand (education and cultural contexts) ⓘ |
| hasPhonemicTone | no ⓘ |
| hasScriptCreator | Lako Bodra (for Warang Citi) ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | hoc ⓘ |
| languageBranch | North Munda ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austroasiatic ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| primaryWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| region | eastern India ⓘ |
| scriptCreationPeriod | mid-20th century (Warang Citi) ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Chhattisgarh
ⓘ
India ⓘ Jharkhand ⓘ Orissa ⓘ
surface form:
Odisha
West Bengal ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural
ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ use of suffixes for grammatical relations ⓘ |
| usedBy | Ho community ⓘ |
| usedIn |
folktales
ⓘ
rituals and festivals ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | primary education in some schools in Jharkhand ⓘ |
| usedInMedia |
community radio programs
ⓘ
local print media ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Devanagari script
ⓘ
Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
Odia script ⓘ Warang Citi 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: Ho language Description of subject: Ho language is an Austroasiatic language of the Munda family spoken primarily by the Ho people in eastern India, particularly in Jharkhand and Odisha.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.