Ma’di language
E924695
The Ma’di language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Ma’di people of South Sudan and northern Uganda.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ma’di language canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11424234 — 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: Ma’di language Context triple: [Moru–Madi languages, hasMemberLanguage, Ma’di language]
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A.
Abu Jinuk language
The Abu Jinuk language is a lesser-known Kadu (Kadugli–Krongo) language spoken by an ethnic minority community in the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan.
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B.
Tamyen language
The Tamyen language is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the Santa Clara Valley region of California.
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C.
Khufi language
The Khufi language is a lesser-known Eastern Iranian tongue spoken in the Pamir region of Tajikistan, closely related to other Pamir languages and used by a small mountain community.
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D.
Khwarshi language
The Khwarshi language is a Northeast Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) language spoken by a small ethnic group in Dagestan, Russia, known for its complex phonology and rich case system.
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E.
Tawbuid language
The Tawbuid language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tawbuid (Batangan) Mangyan people of Mindoro in the Philippines, closely related to other South Mangyan languages.
- 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: Ma’di language Target entity description: The Ma’di language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Ma’di people of South Sudan and northern Uganda.
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A.
Abu Jinuk language
The Abu Jinuk language is a lesser-known Kadu (Kadugli–Krongo) language spoken by an ethnic minority community in the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan.
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B.
Tamyen language
The Tamyen language is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the Santa Clara Valley region of California.
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C.
Khufi language
The Khufi language is a lesser-known Eastern Iranian tongue spoken in the Pamir region of Tajikistan, closely related to other Pamir languages and used by a small mountain community.
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D.
Khwarshi language
The Khwarshi language is a Northeast Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) language spoken by a small ethnic group in Dagestan, Russia, known for its complex phonology and rich case system.
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E.
Tawbuid language
The Tawbuid language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tawbuid (Batangan) Mangyan people of Mindoro in the Philippines, closely related to other South Mangyan languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Central Sudanic language
ⓘ
language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| belongsToBranch |
East Central Sudanic
ⓘ
linked to:
East Central Sudanic languages
|
| country |
South Sudan
ⓘ
Uganda ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ma’di people ⓘ |
| glottologCode | madi1260 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Madi ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Madi
ⓘ
Ma’di (Uganda and South Sudan) ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Northern Ma’di
ⓘ
Southern Ma’di ⓘ |
| hasEndangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
noun class-like agreement patterns
ⓘ
verbal aspect marking ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | mhi ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResearchOn |
morphology
ⓘ
phonology ⓘ syntax ⓘ tone system ⓘ |
| hasOrthography | standardized Latin-based orthography ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
consonant length distinctions
ⓘ
contrastive tone ⓘ vowel length distinctions ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn |
South Sudan
ⓘ
Uganda ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Central Sudanic
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Sudanic languages
Nilo-Saharan ⓘ
linked to:
Nilo-Saharan languages
|
| neighboringLanguages |
Acholi language
ⓘ
Bari language ⓘ Kakwa language ⓘ Lugbara language ⓘ |
| region | East Africa ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Equatoria region
ⓘ
South Sudan ⓘ Uganda ⓘ northern Uganda ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Region, Uganda
|
| subclassOf | Eastern Nilotic–Central Sudanic contact languages ⓘ |
| typology |
SVO word order
ⓘ
tonal language ⓘ |
| usedAsL2In | border areas of South Sudan and Uganda ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cultural ceremonies of the Ma’di people
ⓘ
daily communication among Ma’di people ⓘ |
| usedIn |
education in some primary schools in Ma’di areas
ⓘ
local administration in Ma’di areas ⓘ oral tradition of the Ma’di 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: Ma’di language Description of subject: The Ma’di language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Ma’di people of South Sudan and northern Uganda.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.