Kodagu language
E658098
Kodagu language is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Kodava (Coorg) people in the Kodagu district of Karnataka, India.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kodagu language canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7362805 — 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: Kodagu language Context triple: [Kodava, hasAlternativeTransliteration, Kodagu language]
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A.
Kandas language
Kandas is an Oceanic language of the Western Bismarck subgroup, spoken in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea.
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B.
Kogi language
Kogi is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken by the Kogi people in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region of northern Colombia.
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C.
Kaado language
The Kaado language is a regional variety within the Songhay language family spoken by communities in parts of West Africa.
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D.
Lambadi language
The Lambadi language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Banjara (Lambadi) community in parts of India.
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E.
Irula language
Irula language is a Dravidian tribal language spoken primarily by the Irula people in parts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in southern India.
- 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: Kodagu language Target entity description: Kodagu language is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Kodava (Coorg) people in the Kodagu district of Karnataka, India.
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A.
Kandas language
Kandas is an Oceanic language of the Western Bismarck subgroup, spoken in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea.
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B.
Kogi language
Kogi is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken by the Kogi people in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region of northern Colombia.
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C.
Kaado language
The Kaado language is a regional variety within the Songhay language family spoken by communities in parts of West Africa.
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D.
Lambadi language
The Lambadi language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Banjara (Lambadi) community in parts of India.
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E.
Irula language
Irula language is a Dravidian tribal language spoken primarily by the Irula people in parts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in southern India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dravidian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Kodava language
ⓘ
Kodava takk ⓘ
linked to:
Kodava Takk
|
| basicWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Kodagu cultural region ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Badaga language
ⓘ
Kannada language ⓘ
linked to:
Kannada
Tulu language ⓘ
linked to:
Tulu
|
| country | India ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Kodava people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTransliteration |
Coorgi
ⓘ
Coorgi-Kodava ⓘ
linked to:
Coorgi
|
| hasDialects |
regional varieties within Kodagu district
ⓘ
standard Kodava ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | koda1255 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Kodava ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | kfa ⓘ |
| hasLexicalSimilarityWith | other South Dravidian languages ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
postpositions
ⓘ
rich case system ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate | around 100000 ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
retroflex consonants ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticFeature | bilingualism with Kannada common among speakers ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Kannada language
ⓘ
linked to:
Kannada
Sanskrit ⓘ Tulu language ⓘ
linked to:
Tulu
|
| isNotOfficialLanguageOf | Karnataka ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Dravidian languages ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| primaryRegion | Western Ghats ⓘ |
| region | South India ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
India
ⓘ
Karnataka ⓘ Kodagu district ⓘ |
| status | minority language in India ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Southern Dravidian languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Dravidian
|
| usedAs | marker of Kodava ethnic identity ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Kodava cultural practices
ⓘ
Kodava oral literature ⓘ daily communication among Kodava people ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Kodava folk songs
ⓘ
Kodava religious rituals ⓘ Kodava traditional narratives ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Kannada 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: Kodagu language Description of subject: Kodagu language is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Kodava (Coorg) people in the Kodagu district of Karnataka, India.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.