Southern Gur languages
E267635
Southern Gur languages are a subgroup of the Gur branch of the Niger-Congo language family, spoken primarily in parts of West Africa such as Burkina Faso, Ghana, and neighboring countries.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Southern Gur languages canonical | 7 |
| Central Gur languages | 1 |
| South-Central Gur languages | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2446251 — 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: Southern Gur languages Context triple: [Gur languages, hasSubgroup, Southern Gur languages]
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A.
Southern Dravidian
Southern Dravidian is a major branch of the Dravidian language family that includes languages such as Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam, primarily spoken in southern India and parts of Sri Lanka.
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B.
South-Central Dravidian
South-Central Dravidian is a branch of the Dravidian language family that includes languages such as Telugu and related tongues spoken primarily in south-central India.
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C.
North Dravidian languages
The North Dravidian languages are a small, geographically northern branch of the Dravidian language family spoken mainly in eastern and central India, including languages such as Kurukh and Malto.
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D.
Central Dravidian languages
Central Dravidian languages are a subgroup of the Dravidian language family spoken primarily in central India, known for their shared phonological and grammatical features distinct from the northern and southern branches.
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E.
Southern Gondi
Southern Gondi is a major Dravidian language variety spoken by the Gondi people in central India, distinguished from other Gondi dialects by its own phonological and lexical features.
- 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: Southern Gur languages Target entity description: Southern Gur languages are a subgroup of the Gur branch of the Niger-Congo language family, spoken primarily in parts of West Africa such as Burkina Faso, Ghana, and neighboring countries.
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A.
Southern Dravidian
Southern Dravidian is a major branch of the Dravidian language family that includes languages such as Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam, primarily spoken in southern India and parts of Sri Lanka.
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B.
South-Central Dravidian
South-Central Dravidian is a branch of the Dravidian language family that includes languages such as Telugu and related tongues spoken primarily in south-central India.
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C.
North Dravidian languages
The North Dravidian languages are a small, geographically northern branch of the Dravidian language family spoken mainly in eastern and central India, including languages such as Kurukh and Malto.
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D.
Central Dravidian languages
Central Dravidian languages are a subgroup of the Dravidian language family spoken primarily in central India, known for their shared phonological and grammatical features distinct from the northern and southern branches.
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E.
Southern Gondi
Southern Gondi is a major Dravidian language variety spoken by the Gondi people in central India, distinguished from other Gondi dialects by its own phonological and lexical features.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Southern Gur languages Description of subject: Southern Gur languages are a subgroup of the Gur branch of the Niger-Congo language family, spoken primarily in parts of West Africa such as Burkina Faso, Ghana, and neighboring countries.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Southern Gur languages