Mawu
E618733
Mawu is an alternative name for the Siwu language, a Kwa language spoken by the Mawu and Akpafu people in eastern Ghana.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mawu canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6771577 — 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: Mawu Context triple: [Siwu language, alternativeName, Mawu]
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A.
Mawé
Mawé is an indigenous Tupian language spoken by the Sateré-Mawé people of the Brazilian Amazon.
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B.
Mawanella
Mawanella is a town in central Sri Lanka known as a key transit point on the Colombo–Kandy road and for its surrounding rubber and tea plantations.
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C.
Mawteni
Mawteni is an alternative Romanized spelling of "Mawtini," the famous Arabic patriotic poem and anthem widely associated with Palestinian and Iraqi national identity.
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D.
Mau
Mau is a city in the Purvanchal region of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India, known for its textile and power-loom industry.
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E.
Malongo
Malongo is a major offshore oil field and production hub located off the coast of Cabinda in Angola.
- 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: Mawu Target entity description: Mawu is an alternative name for the Siwu language, a Kwa language spoken by the Mawu and Akpafu people in eastern Ghana.
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A.
Mawé
Mawé is an indigenous Tupian language spoken by the Sateré-Mawé people of the Brazilian Amazon.
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B.
Mawanella
Mawanella is a town in central Sri Lanka known as a key transit point on the Colombo–Kandy road and for its surrounding rubber and tea plantations.
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C.
Mawteni
Mawteni is an alternative Romanized spelling of "Mawtini," the famous Arabic patriotic poem and anthem widely associated with Palestinian and Iraqi national identity.
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D.
Mau
Mau is a city in the Purvanchal region of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India, known for its textile and power-loom industry.
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E.
Malongo
Malongo is a major offshore oil field and production hub located off the coast of Cabinda in Angola.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kwa language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| alternativeNameOf | Siwu language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Ghana ⓘ |
| glottologCode | akpa1243 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Siwu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Akpafu dialect
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mawu dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNeighbouringLanguage |
Adele
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Avatime NERFINISHED ⓘ Ewe NERFINISHED ⓘ Lelemi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTypology |
SVO word order
ⓘ
tone language ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | akp ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Kwa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Volta Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Akpafu people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mawu people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Ghana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion | eastern Ghana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Togo Remnant languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn | oral communication ⓘ |
| 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: Mawu Description of subject: Mawu is an alternative name for the Siwu language, a Kwa language spoken by the Mawu and Akpafu people in eastern Ghana.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.