Lobi
E917983
Lobi is a Gur (Voltaic) language spoken primarily by the Lobi people in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Côte d’Ivoire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lobi canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11302686 — 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: Lobi Context triple: [Voltaic languages, hasMemberLanguage, Lobi]
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A.
Laiolo
Laiolo is an alternate name for the Laiyolo language, an Austronesian language spoken in parts of Indonesia.
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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.
Kalabo
Kalabo is a significant town in western Zambia’s Barotseland region, serving as a local administrative and commercial center near the Zambezi floodplains.
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D.
Labro
Labro is a small medieval hilltop village in central Italy known for its well-preserved historic architecture and scenic views over Lake Piediluco.
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E.
Laworo
Laworo is a town in Indonesia that serves as one of the urban centers within the province of Southeast Sulawesi.
- 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: Lobi Target entity description: Lobi is a Gur (Voltaic) language spoken primarily by the Lobi people in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Côte d’Ivoire.
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A.
Laiolo
Laiolo is an alternate name for the Laiyolo language, an Austronesian language spoken in parts of Indonesia.
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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.
Kalabo
Kalabo is a significant town in western Zambia’s Barotseland region, serving as a local administrative and commercial center near the Zambezi floodplains.
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D.
Labro
Labro is a small medieval hilltop village in central Italy known for its well-preserved historic architecture and scenic views over Lake Piediluco.
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E.
Laworo
Laworo is a town in Indonesia that serves as one of the urban centers within the province of Southeast Sulawesi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gur language
ⓘ
Voltaic language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| branchOf | Gur branch of Niger–Congo ⓘ |
| country |
Burkina Faso
ⓘ
Côte d’Ivoire ⓘ
linked to:
Côte d'Ivoire
Ghana ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Lobi people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Lobiri
ⓘ
Lobiri language ⓘ
linked to:
Lobi language
|
| hasGlottocode | lobi1245 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Lobi ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | lob ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Niger–Congo languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Gur languages ⓘ |
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Lobi people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Burkina Faso
ⓘ
Côte d’Ivoire ⓘ
linked to:
Côte d'Ivoire
Ghana ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Gur languages ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday communication
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Burkina Faso–Ghana–Côte d’Ivoire border area
ⓘ
linked to:
Burkina Faso–Ghana border
|
| 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: Lobi Description of subject: Lobi is a Gur (Voltaic) language spoken primarily by the Lobi people in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Côte d’Ivoire.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.