Indus Kohistani
E722613
Indus Kohistani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indus Valley region of northern Pakistan.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Indus Kohistani canonical | 4 |
| Indus Kohistan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8265955 — 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: Indus Kohistani Context triple: [Northern Indo-Aryan languages, includesLanguage, Indus Kohistani]
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A.
Gojal Valley
Gojal Valley is a high-altitude region in northern Pakistan’s Hunza District, known for its dramatic Karakoram mountain scenery, glaciers, and proximity to the China–Pakistan border.
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B.
Karakoram
Karakoram is a major mountain range in Central and South Asia, home to some of the world’s highest peaks including K2 and extensive glaciers.
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C.
Pul-e Khumri
Pul-e Khumri is a key industrial and administrative city in northern Afghanistan, serving as the capital of Baghlan Province and an important regional transport hub.
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D.
Hispar Glacier
Hispar Glacier is one of the longest non-polar glaciers in the world, located in Pakistan’s Karakoram range and known for forming the high-altitude Hispar–Biafo glacial traverse.
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E.
Mewa Khola
Mewa Khola is a river in eastern Nepal that flows through the mountainous Taplejung District, contributing to the region’s hydrology and local livelihoods.
- 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: Indus Kohistani Target entity description: Indus Kohistani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indus Valley region of northern Pakistan.
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A.
Gojal Valley
Gojal Valley is a high-altitude region in northern Pakistan’s Hunza District, known for its dramatic Karakoram mountain scenery, glaciers, and proximity to the China–Pakistan border.
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B.
Karakoram
Karakoram is a major mountain range in Central and South Asia, home to some of the world’s highest peaks including K2 and extensive glaciers.
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C.
Pul-e Khumri
Pul-e Khumri is a key industrial and administrative city in northern Afghanistan, serving as the capital of Baghlan Province and an important regional transport hub.
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D.
Hispar Glacier
Hispar Glacier is one of the longest non-polar glaciers in the world, located in Pakistan’s Karakoram range and known for forming the high-altitude Hispar–Biafo glacial traverse.
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E.
Mewa Khola
Mewa Khola is a river in eastern Nepal that flows through the mountainous Taplejung District, contributing to the region’s hydrology and local livelihoods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indo-Aryan language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| country | Pakistan ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| family | Indo-European languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottocode | indu1241 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Indus Kohistanii
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kohistani NERFINISHED ⓘ Maiya NERFINISHED ⓘ Maiyon NERFINISHED ⓘ Maiyã NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialect | Kohistan Indus dialects ⓘ |
| hasResearch |
descriptive grammars
ⓘ
lexical studies ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | mvy ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Indo-Aryan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Northwestern Indo-Aryan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linguisticClassificationSource |
Ethnologue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glottolog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Bateri
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gowro NERFINISHED ⓘ Hindko NERFINISHED ⓘ Pashto NERFINISHED ⓘ Shina NERFINISHED ⓘ Torwali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone or pitch accent
ⓘ
retroflex consonants ⓘ |
| region |
Hazara division
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Upper Indus Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scriptVariant | Urdu-based orthography ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Indus Kohistani people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indus Valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa NERFINISHED ⓘ Kohistan District NERFINISHED ⓘ Pakistan NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Pakistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | minority language in Pakistan ⓘ |
| subbranch | Dardic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Indo-Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subgroup | Kohistani languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
SOV word order
ⓘ
ergative alignment in past transitive clauses ⓘ postpositions ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
Pashto
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Urdu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | oral communication ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Arabic script
ⓘ
Perso-Arabic script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Indus Kohistani Description of subject: Indus Kohistani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indus Valley region of northern Pakistan.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Indus Kohistan