Tem
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Tem is a Gur language spoken primarily in Togo and neighboring regions of West Africa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tem canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8809298 — 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: Tem Context triple: [Kabiye, neighboringLanguages, Tem]
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A.
Tem
Tem is an ancient Egyptian creator god, often regarded as a form or aspect of Atum associated with the setting sun and the completion of creation.
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B.
Ter
The Ter is a river in northeastern Catalonia, Spain, that flows through cities such as Girona before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
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C.
Te
Te is the Taoist concept of inner virtue or inherent power that arises from living in harmony with the Tao.
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D.
TM
TM is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Toyota Motor Corporation, the Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer.
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E.
Tu
Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering the antimalarial drug artemisinin.
- 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: Tem Target entity description: Tem is a Gur language spoken primarily in Togo and neighboring regions of West Africa.
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A.
Tem
Tem is an ancient Egyptian creator god, often regarded as a form or aspect of Atum associated with the setting sun and the completion of creation.
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B.
Ter
The Ter is a river in northeastern Catalonia, Spain, that flows through cities such as Girona before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
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C.
Te
Te is the Taoist concept of inner virtue or inherent power that arises from living in harmony with the Tao.
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D.
TM
TM is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Toyota Motor Corporation, the Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer.
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E.
Tu
Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering the antimalarial drug artemisinin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gur language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Kotokoli
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kotokoli Tem NERFINISHED ⓘ Tem-Kotokoli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryWithLargestNumberOfSpeakers | Togo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Kotokoli people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Gur languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottocode | koto1252 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Tem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
home
ⓘ
local administration (informal) ⓘ market ⓘ |
| hasLanguageStatus | regional language ⓘ |
| hasOralLiterature |
folktales
ⓘ
proverbs ⓘ songs ⓘ |
| hasSpeakersIn |
border regions of Benin
ⓘ
border regions of Ghana ⓘ central Togo ⓘ northern Togo ⓘ |
| isIndigenousTo | Togo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn |
Benin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ghana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | kdh ⓘ |
| isUsedAlongside |
Ewe
ⓘ
French ⓘ Kabiye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Atlantic–Congo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Niger–Congo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageGroup | Gur ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology |
SVO word order
ⓘ
tonal language ⓘ |
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Benin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ghana NERFINISHED ⓘ Togo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Eastern Gur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
local trade ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ religious practice ⓘ |
| 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: Tem Description of subject: Tem is a Gur language spoken primarily in Togo and neighboring regions of West Africa.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.