Korku
E491308
Korku is an indigenous tribal language of central India, primarily spoken by the Korku people in parts of Maharashtra and neighboring states.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Korku canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5060241 — 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: Korku Context triple: [Vidarbha, hasMinorityLanguage, Korku]
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A.
Horki
Horki is a town in eastern Belarus known for its agricultural academy and regional administrative significance.
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B.
Kökeqota
Kökeqota is a historic city in what is now Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, that served as the principal political and administrative center of the Northern Yuan dynasty after the fall of the Yuan in China.
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C.
Kankia
Kankia is a town and local government area in northern Nigeria, known for its role as an administrative and commercial center within Katsina State.
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D.
Krakolye
Krakolye is a historic village in northwestern Russia known as one of the traditional settlement areas of the Votic people and their endangered Uralic language.
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E.
Kvasy
Kvasy is a village in western Ukraine’s Zakarpattia region, known as a starting point for hikes in the Carpathian Mountains and for its mineral springs.
- 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: Korku Target entity description: Korku is an indigenous tribal language of central India, primarily spoken by the Korku people in parts of Maharashtra and neighboring states.
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A.
Horki
Horki is a town in eastern Belarus known for its agricultural academy and regional administrative significance.
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B.
Kökeqota
Kökeqota is a historic city in what is now Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, that served as the principal political and administrative center of the Northern Yuan dynasty after the fall of the Yuan in China.
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C.
Kankia
Kankia is a town and local government area in northern Nigeria, known for its role as an administrative and commercial center within Katsina State.
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D.
Krakolye
Krakolye is a historic village in northwestern Russia known as one of the traditional settlement areas of the Votic people and their endangered Uralic language.
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E.
Kvasy
Kvasy is a village in western Ukraine’s Zakarpattia region, known as a starting point for hikes in the Carpathian Mountains and for its mineral springs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austroasiatic language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Mundari
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Santali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Korki
ⓘ
Kurku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
eastern Korku
ⓘ
western Korku ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRevitalizationEfforts |
documentation projects
ⓘ
literacy programs ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
case marking on nouns
ⓘ
suffixing morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive nasalization
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation |
languageShiftTowardHindi
ⓘ
languageShiftTowardMarathi ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | kfq ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austroasiatic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| minorityLanguageIn |
Madhya Pradesh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maharashtra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | central India ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Korku people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Chhattisgarh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gujarat NERFINISHED ⓘ India ⓘ Madhya Pradesh NERFINISHED ⓘ Maharashtra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Munda languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectObjectVerbOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| usedBy | indigenous communities ⓘ |
| usedFor | oral communication ⓘ |
| usedInDomain |
community rituals
ⓘ
home ⓘ traditional storytelling ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Devanagari 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: Korku Description of subject: Korku is an indigenous tribal language of central India, primarily spoken by the Korku people in parts of Maharashtra and neighboring states.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Vidarbha