Sorani
E40075
Sorani is a central variety of the Kurdish language widely spoken in parts of Iraq and Iran and used in literature, media, and education among Kurdish communities.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sorani canonical | 5 |
| Sorani Kurdish | 4 |
| Kurdish (Sorani) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T312358 — 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: Sorani Context triple: [Kurds, majorDialect, Sorani]
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A.
Romani language
The Romani language is an Indo-Aryan language traditionally spoken by Romani communities across Europe and beyond, featuring numerous dialects influenced by the languages of the regions where its speakers live.
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B.
Romanian language
Romanian is a Romance language spoken primarily in Romania and Moldova, notable for preserving many features of Latin while incorporating significant Slavic and Balkan influences.
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C.
Romani
The Romani are a traditionally nomadic ethnic group of Indian origin, now widely dispersed across Europe and beyond, known for their distinct language, culture, and history of marginalization.
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D.
Judeo-Tat
Judeo-Tat is a Southwest Iranian Jewish language traditionally spoken by Mountain Jews of the eastern Caucasus region.
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E.
Rusyn language
The Rusyn language is an East Slavic minority language spoken by Rusyn communities in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly in parts of Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, and Serbia.
- 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: Sorani Target entity description: Sorani is a central variety of the Kurdish language widely spoken in parts of Iraq and Iran and used in literature, media, and education among Kurdish communities.
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A.
Romani language
The Romani language is an Indo-Aryan language traditionally spoken by Romani communities across Europe and beyond, featuring numerous dialects influenced by the languages of the regions where its speakers live.
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B.
Romanian language
Romanian is a Romance language spoken primarily in Romania and Moldova, notable for preserving many features of Latin while incorporating significant Slavic and Balkan influences.
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C.
Romani
The Romani are a traditionally nomadic ethnic group of Indian origin, now widely dispersed across Europe and beyond, known for their distinct language, culture, and history of marginalization.
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D.
Judeo-Tat
Judeo-Tat is a Southwest Iranian Jewish language traditionally spoken by Mountain Jews of the eastern Caucasus region.
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E.
Rusyn language
The Rusyn language is an East Slavic minority language spoken by Rusyn communities in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly in parts of Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, and Serbia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kurdish language variety
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Kurmanji ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Kirkuk dialect
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Kurdish
Sorani ⓘ
surface form:
Sorani Kurdish
|
| hasCaseSystem | reduced case marking ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Arbil dialect
ⓘ
Kirkuk dialect ⓘ Mukriani dialect ⓘ Sulaymaniyah dialect ⓘ |
| hasGrammarType | subject–object–verb word order ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology | agglutinative language features ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
Arabic
ⓘ
Persian language ⓘ
surface form:
Persian
Turkish language ⓘ
surface form:
Turkish
|
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
ergative alignment remnants
ⓘ
suffixal definite marker ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | vowel harmony absence ⓘ |
| hasStandardizationEffortsBy | Kurdish academies in Iraq ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | ckb ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Iranian languages ⓘ Northwestern Iranian languages ⓘ Western Iranian languages ⓘ |
| mutualIntelligibility | partially intelligible with other Kurdish varieties ⓘ |
| partOf | Kurdish language ⓘ |
| primaryStatusIn | one of main written standards of Kurdish ⓘ |
| region | Central Kurdish-speaking area ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Iran
ⓘ
Iraq ⓘ Kurdistan Province (Iran) ⓘ
surface form:
Kurdistan Province of Iran
Kurdistan ⓘ
surface form:
Kurdistan Region of Iraq
|
| standardizedIn |
Kurdistan
ⓘ
surface form:
Kurdistan Region of Iraq
|
| subdivisionOf |
Kurdish language
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Kurdish
|
| taughtAt | universities in Iraqi Kurdistan ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Kurdish diaspora communities
ⓘ
Kurdish people ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Kurdish broadcasting in Iraq
ⓘ
Kurdish press in Iraq ⓘ |
| usedIn |
administration in Kurdistan Region of Iraq
ⓘ
education ⓘ literature ⓘ media ⓘ |
| uses | postpositions more than prepositions ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Perso-Arabic script
ⓘ
surface form:
Arabic-based Sorani alphabet
|
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: Sorani Description of subject: Sorani is a central variety of the Kurdish language widely spoken in parts of Iraq and Iran and used in literature, media, and education among Kurdish communities.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kurdish (Sorani)
this entity surface form:
Sorani Kurdish
this entity surface form:
Sorani Kurdish
this entity surface form:
Sorani Kurdish
this entity surface form:
Sorani Kurdish