Laki language
E783567
The Laki language is an Iranian language spoken primarily by the Laki people of western Iran, often considered transitional between Kurdish and Luri.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Laki language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9186561 — 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: Laki language Context triple: [Western Iranian languages, hasSubdivision, Laki language]
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A.
Laka language
Laka language is a lesser-known Adamawa–Ubangi language spoken in parts of Central Africa, particularly in Chad and neighboring regions.
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B.
Lakalai language
The Lakalai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Lakalai people of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
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C.
Nomlaki language
The Nomlaki language is an endangered Native American language traditionally spoken by the Nomlaki people of northern California.
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D.
Lak language
The Lak language is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken primarily by the Lak people in the Republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus region of Russia.
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E.
Siar-Lak language
The Siar-Lak language is an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea, primarily by communities in the New Ireland region.
- 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: Laki language Target entity description: The Laki language is an Iranian language spoken primarily by the Laki people of western Iran, often considered transitional between Kurdish and Luri.
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A.
Laka language
Laka language is a lesser-known Adamawa–Ubangi language spoken in parts of Central Africa, particularly in Chad and neighboring regions.
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B.
Lakalai language
The Lakalai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Lakalai people of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
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C.
Nomlaki language
The Nomlaki language is an endangered Native American language traditionally spoken by the Nomlaki people of northern California.
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D.
Lak language
The Lak language is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken primarily by the Lak people in the Republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus region of Russia.
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E.
Siar-Lak language
The Siar-Lak language is an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea, primarily by communities in the New Ireland region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian language
ⓘ
Western Iranian language ⓘ language variety ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Luri
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southern Kurdish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Iran ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Laki Kurdish
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Laki Luri NERFINISHED ⓘ Leki ⓘ Leki Laki ⓘ |
| hasBasicWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Bayrayi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kalehorai NERFINISHED ⓘ Pish-e Kuh Laki NERFINISHED ⓘ Posht-e Kuh Laki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnologueEntry | Laki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | laki1249 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Laki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISOCode | lki ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | ergative alignment in past transitive constructions ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | distinction between aspirated and unaspirated stops ⓘ |
| isSometimesClassifiedAs |
Kurdish dialect
ⓘ
Luri dialect ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | Iranian dialectology studies ⓘ |
| isTransitionalBetween |
Kurdish languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Luri language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ Iranian languages ⓘ |
| lexifier | Iranian vocabulary ⓘ |
| region | Zagros Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesFeatureWith |
Kurdish languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Luri language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Laki people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Hamadan Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ilam Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ Kermanshah Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Khuzestan Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Lorestan Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Markazi Province NERFINISHED ⓘ western Iran ⓘ |
| usedIn |
oral literature of Laki people
ⓘ
religious poetry in western Iran ⓘ |
| usesScriptVariant |
Arabic script
ⓘ
Persian alphabet ⓘ |
| 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: Laki language Description of subject: The Laki language is an Iranian language spoken primarily by the Laki people of western Iran, often considered transitional between Kurdish and Luri.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.