Soli language
E570030
The Soli language is a Bantu language spoken by the Soli people of Zambia, particularly in areas around Lusaka and the central part of the country.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Soli language canonical | 4 |
| Solwe language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6120454 — 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: Soli language Context triple: [Tonga (Zambia), closelyRelatedTo, Soli language]
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A.
Saluan language
The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Pokomo language
The Pokomo language is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Pokomo people along Kenya’s Tana River.
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C.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
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D.
Saho language
The Saho language is an Afroasiatic Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Saho people in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.
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E.
Lasalimu language
The Lasalimu language is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, 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: Soli language Target entity description: The Soli language is a Bantu language spoken by the Soli people of Zambia, particularly in areas around Lusaka and the central part of the country.
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A.
Saluan language
The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Pokomo language
The Pokomo language is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Pokomo people along Kenya’s Tana River.
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C.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
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D.
Saho language
The Saho language is an Afroasiatic Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Saho people in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.
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E.
Lasalimu language
The Lasalimu language is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bantu language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Zambia ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Chisoli
ⓘ
CiSoli ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Soli people ⓘ |
| hasISOStatus | not widely standardized ⓘ |
| isSpoken | orally ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Bantu languages ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Lusaka
ⓘ
linked to:
Lusaka, Zambia
|
| region |
areas around Lusaka
ⓘ
central part of Zambia ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Soli people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Lusaka Province
ⓘ
Zambia ⓘ central Zambia ⓘ |
| subfamily | Niger–Congo languages ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication among Soli people ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
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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: Soli language Description of subject: The Soli language is a Bantu language spoken by the Soli people of Zambia, particularly in areas around Lusaka and the central part of the country.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Soli language