Heiban languages
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The Heiban languages are a branch of the Niger-Congo language family spoken primarily in the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heiban language | 2 |
| Heiban languages canonical | 2 |
| Central Heiban languages | 1 |
| Eastern Heiban languages | 1 |
| Western Heiban languages | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10490376 — 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: Heiban languages Context triple: [Nyima languages, neighboringLanguages, Heiban languages]
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A.
Lakkia–Biao languages
The Lakkia–Biao languages are a small branch of the Tai–Kadai language family spoken by minority communities in southern China, notable for preserving archaic features distinct from the more widespread Tai languages.
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B.
Karkar-Yuri languages
The Karkar-Yuri languages are a small group of closely related Papuan languages spoken primarily on Karkar Island and nearby areas of Papua New Guinea.
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C.
Daju languages
The Daju languages are a small group of closely related Eastern Sudanic languages spoken primarily in parts of Sudan and Chad.
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D.
Sanglechi–Ishkashimi languages
The Sanglechi–Ishkashimi languages are a small group of closely related Eastern Iranian languages spoken in the mountainous border regions of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
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E.
Teda–Daza languages
The Teda–Daza languages are a closely related pair of Saharan languages spoken primarily by the Toubou people across Chad, Niger, and Libya.
- 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: Heiban languages Target entity description: The Heiban languages are a branch of the Niger-Congo language family spoken primarily in the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan.
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A.
Lakkia–Biao languages
The Lakkia–Biao languages are a small branch of the Tai–Kadai language family spoken by minority communities in southern China, notable for preserving archaic features distinct from the more widespread Tai languages.
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B.
Karkar-Yuri languages
The Karkar-Yuri languages are a small group of closely related Papuan languages spoken primarily on Karkar Island and nearby areas of Papua New Guinea.
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C.
Daju languages
The Daju languages are a small group of closely related Eastern Sudanic languages spoken primarily in parts of Sudan and Chad.
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D.
Sanglechi–Ishkashimi languages
The Sanglechi–Ishkashimi languages are a small group of closely related Eastern Iranian languages spoken in the mountainous border regions of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
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E.
Teda–Daza languages
The Teda–Daza languages are a closely related pair of Saharan languages spoken primarily by the Toubou people across Chad, Niger, and Libya.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Heiban languages Description of subject: The Heiban languages are a branch of the Niger-Congo language family spoken primarily in the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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