Hanga language
E917992
The Hanga language is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern Ghana by the Hanga people.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hanga language canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11302739 — 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: Hanga language Context triple: [Southern Gur languages, hasLanguage, Hanga language]
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A.
Sori-Harengan language
The Sori-Harengan language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Admiralty Islands of Papua New Guinea, belonging to the Admiralty Islands subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
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B.
Ronga language
The Ronga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Mozambique, closely related to Tsonga and used by the Ronga people in the Maputo region.
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C.
Waihonga language
The Waihonga language is a lesser-known Austronesian language of the Bima–Sumba subgroup spoken on or near the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia.
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D.
Ta-ang language
The Ta-ang language is a Mon–Khmer language spoken primarily by the Ta-ang (Palaung) ethnic group in parts of Myanmar, China, and neighboring regions.
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E.
Hoava language
The Hoava language is an Oceanic language spoken by communities in the western Solomon Islands, particularly on New Georgia Island.
- 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: Hanga language Target entity description: The Hanga language is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern Ghana by the Hanga people.
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A.
Sori-Harengan language
The Sori-Harengan language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Admiralty Islands of Papua New Guinea, belonging to the Admiralty Islands subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
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B.
Ronga language
The Ronga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Mozambique, closely related to Tsonga and used by the Ronga people in the Maputo region.
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C.
Waihonga language
The Waihonga language is a lesser-known Austronesian language of the Bima–Sumba subgroup spoken on or near the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia.
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D.
Ta-ang language
The Ta-ang language is a Mon–Khmer language spoken primarily by the Ta-ang (Palaung) ethnic group in parts of Myanmar, China, and neighboring regions.
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E.
Hoava language
The Hoava language is an Oceanic language spoken by communities in the western Solomon Islands, particularly on New Georgia Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gur language
ⓘ
language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Ghana ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Hanga people ⓘ |
| family | Gur languages ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Hanga ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
SVO word order
ⓘ
tonal language ⓘ |
| hasNativeSpeakersIn | Ghana ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | hag ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Gur language continuum ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Niger–Congo languages ⓘ |
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Ghana
ⓘ
northern Ghana ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Northern Gur languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Gur
|
| usedBy | Hanga people ⓘ |
| 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: Hanga language Description of subject: The Hanga language is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern Ghana by the Hanga people.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.