Central Plateau Iranian languages
E783566
Central Plateau Iranian languages are a group of closely related Western Iranian languages spoken primarily in central Iran, often characterized by significant dialectal diversity and influence from neighboring language groups.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Central Plateau Iranian languages canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9186543 — 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: Central Plateau Iranian languages Context triple: [Western Iranian languages, hasSubdivision, Central Plateau Iranian languages]
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A.
Eastern Iranian plateau
The Eastern Iranian plateau is a highland region in Central and South Asia encompassing parts of modern Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, historically home to various ancient Iranian peoples and cultures.
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B.
Eastern Iranian languages
Eastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, comprising languages such as Pashto and Ossetian spoken mainly in eastern Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
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C.
Northeastern Iranian languages
Northeastern Iranian languages are a branch of the Iranian language family spoken historically and presently in parts of Central Asia and northeastern Iran, including languages such as Sogdian, Yaghnobi, and some modern Pamir languages.
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D.
Southeastern Iranian languages
Southeastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, historically spoken in eastern Iran and surrounding regions and including languages such as Pashto and Ossetian.
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E.
Southwestern Iranian languages
Southwestern Iranian languages are a branch of the Iranian language family that includes major languages such as Persian, Luri, and Tat, primarily spoken in Iran and surrounding regions.
- 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: Central Plateau Iranian languages Target entity description: Central Plateau Iranian languages are a group of closely related Western Iranian languages spoken primarily in central Iran, often characterized by significant dialectal diversity and influence from neighboring language groups.
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A.
Eastern Iranian plateau
The Eastern Iranian plateau is a highland region in Central and South Asia encompassing parts of modern Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, historically home to various ancient Iranian peoples and cultures.
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B.
Eastern Iranian languages
Eastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, comprising languages such as Pashto and Ossetian spoken mainly in eastern Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
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C.
Northeastern Iranian languages
Northeastern Iranian languages are a branch of the Iranian language family spoken historically and presently in parts of Central Asia and northeastern Iran, including languages such as Sogdian, Yaghnobi, and some modern Pamir languages.
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D.
Southeastern Iranian languages
Southeastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, historically spoken in eastern Iran and surrounding regions and including languages such as Pashto and Ossetian.
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E.
Southwestern Iranian languages
Southwestern Iranian languages are a branch of the Iranian language family that includes major languages such as Persian, Luri, and Tat, primarily spoken in Iran and surrounding regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western Iranian languages subgroup
ⓘ
group of languages ⓘ |
| areEndangered | true ⓘ |
| areMinorityLanguagesOf | Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Ardestan region
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Isfahan Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Kashan region NERFINISHED ⓘ Kerman Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Nain region NERFINISHED ⓘ Natanz region NERFINISHED ⓘ Yazd Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
contact-induced variation
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dialectal diversity ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Abuzaydabadi language
NERFINISHED
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Ardestani dialect ⓘ Gazi language NERFINISHED ⓘ Isfahan dialects NERFINISHED ⓘ Judeo-Isfahani NERFINISHED ⓘ Judeo-Kashani NERFINISHED ⓘ Judeo-Yazdi NERFINISHED ⓘ Kafrudi dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ Kashan dialects ⓘ Nain dialects ⓘ Natanz dialects ⓘ Sedehi dialect ⓘ Soi language NERFINISHED ⓘ Varzaneh dialect ⓘ Yazd dialects ⓘ Zefra’i dialect ⓘ Zoroastrian Dari of Yazd and Kerman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| haveHistoricalContactWith |
Classical Persian
NERFINISHED
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Median language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Azerbaijani language
NERFINISHED
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Kurdish languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Persian language NERFINISHED ⓘ neighboring Iranian languages ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Iranian branch ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Indo-European language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSubbranch | Western Iranian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oftenClassifiedAs | Northwestern Iranian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Iran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
central Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Indo-European languages
NERFINISHED
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Indo-Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Jewish communities in central Iran
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Zoroastrian communities in central Iran ⓘ |
| writingSystem | 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: Central Plateau Iranian languages Description of subject: Central Plateau Iranian languages are a group of closely related Western Iranian languages spoken primarily in central Iran, often characterized by significant dialectal diversity and influence from neighboring language groups.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.