Igboid languages
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Igboid languages are a group of closely related Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Nigeria, including Igbo and several smaller regional varieties.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Igboid languages canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2662888 — 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: Igboid languages Context triple: [Benue–Congo languages, containsSubfamily, Igboid languages]
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A.
Yoruboid languages
Yoruboid languages are a group of closely related Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southwestern Nigeria and neighboring regions, including Yoruba, Itsekiri, and Igala.
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B.
Benue–Congo languages
The Benue–Congo languages are a large and diverse branch of African languages that include the widespread Bantu family and are spoken across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
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C.
Ijaw languages
Ijaw languages are a group of closely related Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily by the Ijaw people in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria.
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D.
Ogoni languages
Ogoni languages are a small group of closely related Niger-Congo languages spoken by the Ogoni people in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria.
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E.
Adamawa–Ubangi languages
Adamawa–Ubangi languages are a diverse branch of the Niger–Congo language family spoken primarily in central Africa, including parts of Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and surrounding 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: Igboid languages Target entity description: Igboid languages are a group of closely related Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Nigeria, including Igbo and several smaller regional varieties.
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A.
Yoruboid languages
Yoruboid languages are a group of closely related Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southwestern Nigeria and neighboring regions, including Yoruba, Itsekiri, and Igala.
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B.
Benue–Congo languages
The Benue–Congo languages are a large and diverse branch of African languages that include the widespread Bantu family and are spoken across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
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C.
Ijaw languages
Ijaw languages are a group of closely related Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily by the Ijaw people in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria.
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D.
Ogoni languages
Ogoni languages are a small group of closely related Niger-Congo languages spoken by the Ogoni people in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria.
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E.
Adamawa–Ubangi languages
Adamawa–Ubangi languages are a diverse branch of the Niger–Congo language family spoken primarily in central Africa, including parts of Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and surrounding regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Niger-Congo language group
ⓘ
language family ⓘ |
| arealClassification |
Lower Niger region
ⓘ
West Africa ⓘ |
| containsLanguage |
Afikpo language
ⓘ
Echie language ⓘ
surface form:
Echi language
Ekpeye language ⓘ Ezaa language ⓘ Igbo ⓘ
surface form:
Igbo language
Ika language ⓘ Ikwerre language ⓘ Ikwo language ⓘ Izii-Ezaa-Ikwo-Mgbo cluster ⓘ Izzi language ⓘ Ndoni language ⓘ Ngwa varieties ⓘ Nsukka varieties ⓘ Ogba language ⓘ Ohuhu varieties ⓘ Onitsha varieties ⓘ Orlu varieties ⓘ Owerri varieties ⓘ Ukwuani-Aboh-Ndoni varieties ⓘ Unwana language ⓘ |
| geneticRelationship | closely related languages ⓘ |
| glottologCode | igbo1245 ⓘ |
| hasEthnicAssociation | Igbo people ⓘ |
| iso639Grouping | igb ⓘ |
| linguisticResearchArea |
historical-comparative linguistics
ⓘ
morphosyntax of Niger-Congo ⓘ tone and phonology studies ⓘ |
| majorLanguage |
Igbo
ⓘ
surface form:
Igbo language
|
| neighboringLanguageFamilies |
Cross-River languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Cross River languages
Edoid languages ⓘ Yoruboid languages ⓘ |
| partOf |
Niger–Congo languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Niger-Congo languages
|
| primaryRegion | southeastern Nigeria ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Nigeria ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf |
Benue–Congo languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Benue-Congo languages
Atlantic–Congo languages ⓘ
surface form:
Volta-Congo languages
|
| typologicalFeature |
SVO word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ noun class remnants ⓘ tone languages ⓘ |
| usedFor |
education (regionally)
ⓘ
everyday communication ⓘ literature (especially Igbo) ⓘ media (regionally) ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin 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: Igboid languages Description of subject: Igboid languages are a group of closely related Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Nigeria, including Igbo and several smaller regional varieties.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ikwerre people