Lobiri
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Lobiri is a Gur language spoken primarily by the Lobi people in parts of Burkina Faso and Ghana.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11303160 — 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: Lobiri Context triple: [Lobi language, hasAlternativeName, Lobiri]
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A.
Libo
Libo is an ancient Roman cognomen associated with members of the patrician Julii family.
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B.
Liboi
Liboi is a small Kenyan border town in the arid northeast near Somalia, serving as a local trading and transit point.
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C.
Lokosi
Lokosi is the popular nickname of Croatian football club NK Lokomotiva Zagreb, used by its supporters and in local football culture.
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D.
Lamboya
Lamboya is an Austronesian language spoken by the Lamboya people on the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia.
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E.
Garoua
Garoua is a major city in northern Cameroon that serves as an important commercial and administrative center and a key hub for river and overland transport in the 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: Lobiri Target entity description: Lobiri is a Gur language spoken primarily by the Lobi people in parts of Burkina Faso and Ghana.
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A.
Libo
Libo is an ancient Roman cognomen associated with members of the patrician Julii family.
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B.
Liboi
Liboi is a small Kenyan border town in the arid northeast near Somalia, serving as a local trading and transit point.
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C.
Lokosi
Lokosi is the popular nickname of Croatian football club NK Lokomotiva Zagreb, used by its supporters and in local football culture.
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D.
Lamboya
Lamboya is an Austronesian language spoken by the Lamboya people on the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia.
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E.
Garoua
Garoua is a major city in northern Cameroon that serves as an important commercial and administrative center and a key hub for river and overland transport in the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gur language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroFamily | Atlantic–Congo languages ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country |
Burkina Faso
ⓘ
Ghana ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Lobi people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Lobi
ⓘ
linked to:
Lobiri
|
| hasISO639-3Code | lob ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology | SVO word order ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasNativeSpeakers | Lobi people ⓘ |
| isSpokenPrimarilyIn |
northwestern Ghana
ⓘ
southwestern Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Gur languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Niger–Congo languages ⓘ |
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Lobi people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Burkina Faso
ⓘ
Ghana ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Gur languages ⓘ |
| usedBy |
rural communities in Burkina Faso
ⓘ
rural communities in Ghana ⓘ |
| usedFor | everyday communication ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
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: Lobiri Description of subject: Lobiri is a Gur language spoken primarily by the Lobi people in parts of Burkina Faso and Ghana.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lobiri