Korku language
E734615
Korku language is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily by the Korku tribal communities in central India, especially in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Korku language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8444855 — 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: Korku language Context triple: [North Munda languages, includesLanguage, Korku language]
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A.
Khortha language
Khortha is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Jharkhand, where it serves as a major regional lingua franca among various communities.
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B.
Lavukaleve language
Lavukaleve is a Papuan language spoken by the Lavukal people of the Russell Islands in the Solomon Islands, known for its complex grammar and status as one of the Central Solomons languages.
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C.
Korandje language
The Korandje language is a highly endangered Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the oasis town of Tabelbala in southwestern Algeria, notable for its heavy influence from Berber and Arabic.
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D.
Kokota language
The Kokota language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kokota people of Santa Isabel Island in the Solomon Islands.
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E.
Konda-Dora language
Konda-Dora language is a Dravidian tribal language spoken primarily by the Konda Dora people in parts of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha in 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: Korku language Target entity description: Korku language is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily by the Korku tribal communities in central India, especially in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
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A.
Khortha language
Khortha is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Jharkhand, where it serves as a major regional lingua franca among various communities.
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B.
Lavukaleve language
Lavukaleve is a Papuan language spoken by the Lavukal people of the Russell Islands in the Solomon Islands, known for its complex grammar and status as one of the Central Solomons languages.
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C.
Korandje language
The Korandje language is a highly endangered Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the oasis town of Tabelbala in southwestern Algeria, notable for its heavy influence from Berber and Arabic.
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D.
Kokota language
The Kokota language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kokota people of Santa Isabel Island in the Solomon Islands.
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E.
Konda-Dora language
Konda-Dora language is a Dravidian tribal language spoken primarily by the Konda Dora people in parts of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha in India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austroasiatic language
ⓘ
Munda language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsToBranch | North Munda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Korku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Korki
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Korkus ⓘ Kurku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCaseMarking | postpositional ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
regional varieties within Madhya Pradesh
ⓘ
regional varieties within Maharashtra ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | kork1249 ⓘ |
| hasLexicalBorrowingFrom | Indo-Aryan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
noun classifiers absent
ⓘ
postpositions instead of prepositions ⓘ rich system of verb inflection ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
retroflex consonants ⓘ |
| hasScriptUsage | primarily written in Devanagari ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation |
language shift towards Hindi observed
ⓘ
many speakers bilingual in Hindi ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Hindi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marathi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn |
Madhya Pradesh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maharashtra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | kfq ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austroasiatic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| macrolanguageOf | no recognized distinct daughter languages ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Hindi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marathi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryReligionOfSpeakers |
Hinduism
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
indigenous tribal religions ⓘ |
| region | central India ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Korku people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
India
ⓘ
Madhya Pradesh NERFINISHED ⓘ Maharashtra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Munda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn |
folk songs
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ storytelling ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | limited use in primary education in some areas ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Devanagari 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: Korku language Description of subject: Korku language is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily by the Korku tribal communities in central India, especially in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.