Ila language
E570028
The Ila language is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Ila people of southern Zambia, known for its rich oral traditions and close relation to other Plateau Tonga languages.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ila language canonical | 7 |
| Ila language (Zambia) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6120452 — 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: Ila language Context triple: [Tonga (Zambia), closelyRelatedTo, Ila language]
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A.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
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B.
Lasalimu language
The Lasalimu language is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Iaai language
The Iaai language is an Oceanic language spoken primarily on Ouvéa Island in New Caledonia, known for its complex phonology and distinctive vowel system.
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D.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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E.
Baliledu language
The Baliledu language is an Austronesian language of the Bima–Sumba subgroup spoken by a local community in eastern Indonesia.
- 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: Ila language Target entity description: The Ila language is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Ila people of southern Zambia, known for its rich oral traditions and close relation to other Plateau Tonga languages.
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A.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
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B.
Lasalimu language
The Lasalimu language is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Iaai language
The Iaai language is an Oceanic language spoken primarily on Ouvéa Island in New Caledonia, known for its complex phonology and distinctive vowel system.
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D.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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E.
Baliledu language
The Baliledu language is an Austronesian language of the Bima–Sumba subgroup spoken by a local community in eastern Indonesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bantu language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Lenje language
ⓘ
Sala language ⓘ Tonga language (Zambia) ⓘ
linked to:
Tonga language
|
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Zambia ⓘ |
| glottocode | ilaa1241 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Chila
ⓘ
Ciila ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Ila people ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
noun class system ⓘ tone language ⓘ |
| hasOralTradition | rich oral traditions ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity | Ila-speaking communities in southern Zambia ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | ilb ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Niger–Congo languages ⓘ |
| languageGroup | Plateau Tonga languages ⓘ |
| languageSubfamily |
Atlantic–Congo languages
ⓘ
Bantoid languages ⓘ Bantu languages ⓘ Benue–Congo languages ⓘ |
| partOf | Zambian languages ⓘ |
| region | Southern Province, Zambia ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Ila people ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Zambia ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion |
Southern Zambia
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Province, Zambia
|
| usedFor |
oral literature
ⓘ
proverbs ⓘ rituals ⓘ songs ⓘ storytelling ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin 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: Ila language Description of subject: The Ila language is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Ila people of southern Zambia, known for its rich oral traditions and close relation to other Plateau Tonga languages.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ila language