Ofogoula
E949917
Ofogoula is an alternative name for the Ofo language, a now-extinct Siouan language once spoken by the Ofo people in the southeastern United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ofogoula canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11810542 — 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: Ofogoula Context triple: [Ofo, hasAlternativeName, Ofogoula]
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A.
Galga
Galga is a small river in Hungary that serves as a tributary of the Zagyva River.
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B.
Ogori
Ogori is a small Japanese city located in Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu.
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C.
Goula
Goula is a traditional Carnatic raga known for its use in devotional compositions, including one of Tyagaraja’s revered Pancharatna Kritis.
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D.
Faragoh
Faragoh is a surname most notably associated with Francis Edward Faragoh, a Hungarian-American screenwriter active in early Hollywood cinema.
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E.
Gouraya
Gouraya is a coastal town in northern Algeria known for its Mediterranean shoreline and proximity to the Gouraya National Park’s rugged landscapes.
- 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: Ofogoula Target entity description: Ofogoula is an alternative name for the Ofo language, a now-extinct Siouan language once spoken by the Ofo people in the southeastern United States.
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A.
Galga
Galga is a small river in Hungary that serves as a tributary of the Zagyva River.
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B.
Ogori
Ogori is a small Japanese city located in Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu.
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C.
Goula
Goula is a traditional Carnatic raga known for its use in devotional compositions, including one of Tyagaraja’s revered Pancharatna Kritis.
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D.
Faragoh
Faragoh is a surname most notably associated with Francis Edward Faragoh, a Hungarian-American screenwriter active in early Hollywood cinema.
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E.
Gouraya
Gouraya is a coastal town in northern Algeria known for its Mediterranean shoreline and proximity to the Gouraya National Park’s rugged landscapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Siouan language
ⓘ
extinct language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Ofo
ⓘ
Ofogoula language ⓘ |
| alternativeNameOf | Ofo language ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| documentedBy | early European and American linguists ⓘ |
| endonym | Ofo (reconstructed) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ofo people ⓘ |
| extinction | 19th century (approximate) ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | ofoo1242 ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | ofo ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
agglutinative language (reconstructed)
ⓘ
polysynthetic language (reconstructed) ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SOV (reconstructed dominant order) ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Louisiana area (historical)
ⓘ
Lower Mississippi Valley ⓘ
linked to:
Lower Mississippi River basin
Mississippi area (historical) ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Siouan languages ⓘ |
| partOf |
Eastern Siouan languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Southeastern Siouan
|
| region |
southeastern United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
|
| relatedTo |
Biloxi language
ⓘ
Dakota language (distantly) ⓘ Tutelo language ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Ofo people ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| subfamily | Mississippi Valley Siouan languages ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script (in linguistic transcriptions) ⓘ |
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: Ofogoula Description of subject: Ofogoula is an alternative name for the Ofo language, a now-extinct Siouan language once spoken by the Ofo people in the southeastern United States.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.