Edoid languages
E274580
The Edoid languages are a group of closely related Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southern Nigeria, including the language of the Urhobo people.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edoid languages canonical | 22 |
| Proto-Edoid | 2 |
| North-Central Edoid languages | 1 |
| Northwestern Edoid languages | 1 |
| Proto-Edoid language | 1 |
| South-Western Edoid | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2534158 — 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: Edoid languages Context triple: [Urhobo people, languageSubfamily, Edoid languages]
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A.
Avar-Andic languages
The Avar-Andic languages are a branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family spoken primarily in Dagestan and neighboring regions of the eastern Caucasus.
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B.
Ellicean languages
Ellicean languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in parts of Polynesia, including Tuvalu and surrounding island regions.
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C.
Sabellic languages
The Sabellic languages are an extinct group of closely related Italic languages once spoken in central and southern Italy, distinct from Latin and including varieties such as Oscan and Umbrian.
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D.
Katuic languages
Katuic languages are a branch of the Austroasiatic language family spoken primarily in Laos, Vietnam, and neighboring regions by various indigenous ethnic groups.
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E.
Pearic languages
Pearic languages are a small, endangered branch of the Austroasiatic language family spoken by indigenous Pearic communities in Cambodia and nearby regions.
- 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: Edoid languages Target entity description: The Edoid languages are a group of closely related Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southern Nigeria, including the language of the Urhobo people.
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A.
Avar-Andic languages
The Avar-Andic languages are a branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family spoken primarily in Dagestan and neighboring regions of the eastern Caucasus.
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B.
Ellicean languages
Ellicean languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in parts of Polynesia, including Tuvalu and surrounding island regions.
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C.
Sabellic languages
The Sabellic languages are an extinct group of closely related Italic languages once spoken in central and southern Italy, distinct from Latin and including varieties such as Oscan and Umbrian.
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D.
Katuic languages
Katuic languages are a branch of the Austroasiatic language family spoken primarily in Laos, Vietnam, and neighboring regions by various indigenous ethnic groups.
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E.
Pearic languages
Pearic languages are a small, endangered branch of the Austroasiatic language family spoken by indigenous Pearic communities in Cambodia and nearby regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Edoid languages Description of subject: The Edoid languages are a group of closely related Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southern Nigeria, including the language of the Urhobo people.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Edoid languages
subject linked to:
East Kwa (in some older classifications)
linked to: Edoid languages
linked to: Edoid languages
subject linked to:
Esan people
linked to: Edoid languages
linked to: Edoid languages