Sura language
E788835
The Sura language is a Chadic language of the Afroasiatic family spoken by the Sura people in central Nigeria.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sura language canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9269667 — 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: Sura language Context triple: [Angas–Sura subgroup, hasMember, Sura language]
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A.
Sursurunga language
The Sursurunga language is an Austronesian language spoken on New Ireland in Papua New Guinea, notable for its complex numeral system and membership in the Western Bismarck subgroup.
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B.
Surjapuri language
Surjapuri language is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in parts of eastern India and neighboring regions of Nepal and Bangladesh, known for its close relation to Maithili and Bengali.
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C.
Lasalimu language
The Lasalimu language is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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D.
Suwawa language
The Suwawa language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Suwawa people of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the Gorontalo–Mongondow subgroup.
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E.
Selaru language
The Selaru language is an Austronesian language spoken on Selaru Island in Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands, known for its place within the Central Malayo-Polynesian subgroup.
- 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: Sura language Target entity description: The Sura language is a Chadic language of the Afroasiatic family spoken by the Sura people in central Nigeria.
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A.
Sursurunga language
The Sursurunga language is an Austronesian language spoken on New Ireland in Papua New Guinea, notable for its complex numeral system and membership in the Western Bismarck subgroup.
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B.
Surjapuri language
Surjapuri language is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in parts of eastern India and neighboring regions of Nepal and Bangladesh, known for its close relation to Maithili and Bengali.
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C.
Lasalimu language
The Lasalimu language is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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D.
Suwawa language
The Suwawa language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Suwawa people of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the Gorontalo–Mongondow subgroup.
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E.
Selaru language
The Selaru language is an Austronesian language spoken on Selaru Island in Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands, known for its place within the Central Malayo-Polynesian subgroup.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Afroasiatic language
ⓘ
Chadic language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Sura
ⓘ
Sura (Nigeria) ⓘ Sura-Pai ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Sura people ⓘ |
| family |
Afroasiatic
ⓘ
linked to:
Afroasiatic languages
|
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
| ISO639-3Code | suq ⓘ |
| isSpoken | true ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Chadic ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Afroasiatic ⓘ |
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Sura people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Nigeria
ⓘ
central Nigeria ⓘ |
| subfamily | Chadic ⓘ |
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: Sura language Description of subject: The Sura language is a Chadic language of the Afroasiatic family spoken by the Sura people in central Nigeria.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.