Boki language
E1005110
The Boki language is a Bendi language spoken by the Boki people of southeastern Nigeria, primarily in Cross River State.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boki language canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12835325 — 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: Boki language Context triple: [Boki, hasLanguage, Boki language]
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A.
Bafia language
The Bafia language is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Bafia people in central Cameroon.
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B.
Baniwa language
Baniwa is an Arawakan Indigenous language spoken primarily along the Rio Negro in northwestern Brazil, as well as in parts of Colombia and Venezuela.
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C.
Baka language
The Baka language is a Central African language spoken primarily by the Baka Pygmy communities in parts of Cameroon, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo.
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D.
Batui language
The Batui language is an Austronesian language spoken in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the Saluan–Banggai subgroup.
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E.
Buyi language
The Buyi language is a Tai–Kadai language spoken primarily by the Buyi ethnic group in Guizhou and neighboring regions of southern China.
- 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: Boki language Target entity description: The Boki language is a Bendi language spoken by the Boki people of southeastern Nigeria, primarily in Cross River State.
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A.
Bafia language
The Bafia language is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Bafia people in central Cameroon.
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B.
Baniwa language
Baniwa is an Arawakan Indigenous language spoken primarily along the Rio Negro in northwestern Brazil, as well as in parts of Colombia and Venezuela.
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C.
Baka language
The Baka language is a Central African language spoken primarily by the Baka Pygmy communities in parts of Cameroon, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo.
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D.
Batui language
The Batui language is an Austronesian language spoken in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the Saluan–Banggai subgroup.
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E.
Buyi language
The Buyi language is a Tai–Kadai language spoken primarily by the Buyi ethnic group in Guizhou and neighboring regions of southern China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bendi language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Boki people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottologCode | boky1238 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Bokyi ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Boki
ⓘ
Bokyi ⓘ |
| hasDialects | yes ⓘ |
| isIndigenousTo | Nigeria ⓘ |
| iso6393Code | bky ⓘ |
| isSpoken | true ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Atlantic–Congo languages
ⓘ
Benue–Congo languages ⓘ Niger–Congo languages ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
West Africa Time
ⓘ
linked to:
West Africa Time (WAT)
|
| region | southeastern Nigeria ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Boki people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Cross River State
ⓘ
Nigeria ⓘ |
| status | living language ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Bendi languages ⓘ |
| usedIn | Cross River State ⓘ |
| 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: Boki language Description of subject: The Boki language is a Bendi language spoken by the Boki people of southeastern Nigeria, primarily in Cross River State.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.