Koya language
E111783
Koya language is a South-Central Dravidian language spoken by the Koya tribal communities in central and southern India.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Koya language canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T939354 — 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: Koya language Context triple: [Gondi, closelyRelatedTo, Koya language]
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A.
Kawaiisu language
Kawaiisu language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Kawaiisu people of southern California.
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B.
Chimariko language
The Chimariko language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northwestern California, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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C.
Yana language
The Yana language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northern California, notable for its complex verb morphology and documentation by linguist Edward Sapir.
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D.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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E.
Unami language
The Unami language is an Eastern Algonquian Native American language traditionally spoken by the Lenape (Delaware) people in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
- 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: Koya language Target entity description: Koya language is a South-Central Dravidian language spoken by the Koya tribal communities in central and southern India.
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A.
Kawaiisu language
Kawaiisu language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Kawaiisu people of southern California.
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B.
Chimariko language
The Chimariko language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northwestern California, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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C.
Yana language
The Yana language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northern California, notable for its complex verb morphology and documentation by linguist Edward Sapir.
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D.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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E.
Unami language
The Unami language is an Eastern Algonquian Native American language traditionally spoken by the Lenape (Delaware) people in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dravidian language
ⓘ
South-Central Dravidian language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Indian tribal languages ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnolinguisticGroup | Koya ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
central India tribal regions
ⓘ
southern India tribal regions ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Koya
ⓘ
Koya Gondi ⓘ |
| hasBranch | South-Central Dravidian ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
postpositions instead of prepositions
ⓘ
rich case system ⓘ verb-final syntax ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakersRange | hundreds of thousands of speakers ⓘ |
| hasPhylum | Dravidian ⓘ |
| isDistinctFrom |
Gondi language
ⓘ
Telugu language ⓘ
linked to:
Telugu
|
| ISO639-3Code | kff ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Dravidian languages ⓘ |
| languageStatus | minority language in India ⓘ |
| region |
Andhra Pradesh
ⓘ
Chhattisgarh ⓘ Odisha ⓘ
linked to:
Orissa
Telangana ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Gondi language
ⓘ
Telugu language ⓘ
linked to:
Telugu
|
| scriptUsage |
sometimes written in Devanagari
ⓘ
uses Telugu script for writing ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Koya people
ⓘ
Koya tribal communities ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
India
ⓘ
central India ⓘ southern India ⓘ
linked to:
South India
|
| subfamily |
South-Central Dravidian languages
ⓘ
linked to:
South-Central Dravidian
|
| usedIn |
folk songs of Koya people
ⓘ
oral tradition of Koya people ⓘ rituals of Koya communities ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Devanagari script
ⓘ
Telugu script ⓘ |
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: Koya language Description of subject: Koya language is a South-Central Dravidian language spoken by the Koya tribal communities in central and southern India.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.