Yola
E114841
Yola is an extinct Germanic language that developed from Middle English and was once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yola canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T975247 — 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: Yola Context triple: [Yola language, alsoKnownAs, Yola]
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A.
Yola
Yola is the capital city of Adamawa State in northeastern Nigeria, known as an important administrative and commercial center along the Benue River.
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B.
Rollie Lynn Riggs
Rollie Lynn Riggs was an American playwright, poet, and screenwriter best known for his play "Green Grow the Lilacs," which inspired the classic musical "Oklahoma!".
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C.
Sarah Jane Fulks
Sarah Jane Fulks was the birth name of Jane Wyman, the Academy Award–winning American film and television actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan.
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D.
Dixie Pearl Followill
Dixie Pearl Followill is the daughter of American model Lily Aldridge and Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill.
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E.
Johnny Belinda
"Johnny Belinda" is a 1948 drama film best known for Jane Wyman’s Oscar-winning performance as a deaf-mute woman living in a small Nova Scotia fishing village.
- 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: Yola Target entity description: Yola is an extinct Germanic language that developed from Middle English and was once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland.
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A.
Yola
Yola is the capital city of Adamawa State in northeastern Nigeria, known as an important administrative and commercial center along the Benue River.
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B.
Rollie Lynn Riggs
Rollie Lynn Riggs was an American playwright, poet, and screenwriter best known for his play "Green Grow the Lilacs," which inspired the classic musical "Oklahoma!".
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C.
Sarah Jane Fulks
Sarah Jane Fulks was the birth name of Jane Wyman, the Academy Award–winning American film and television actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan.
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D.
Dixie Pearl Followill
Dixie Pearl Followill is the daughter of American model Lily Aldridge and Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill.
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E.
Johnny Belinda
"Johnny Belinda" is a 1948 drama film best known for Jane Wyman’s Oscar-winning performance as a deaf-mute woman living in a small Nova Scotia fishing village.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
West Germanic language
ⓘ
extinct language ⓘ |
| causeOfExtinction | language shift to English ⓘ |
| country | Ireland ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Middle English ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
18th-century texts
ⓘ
19th-century texts ⓘ |
| extinction | 19th century ⓘ |
| follows | Middle English ⓘ |
| glottocode | yola1234 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Forth and Bargy dialect
ⓘ
linked to:
Forth and Bargy dialect (historical)
Yola language ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Middle English
ⓘ
Old English ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation | Old English communities of County Wexford ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Bargy dialect
ⓘ
linked to:
Forth and Bargy dialect (historical)
Forth dialect ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup |
Anglo-Norman settlers of Wexford
ⓘ
linked to:
Old English nobility in Ireland
|
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
conservative Middle English verb forms
ⓘ
distinct second person plural pronouns ⓘ |
| hasLexicalFeature |
large proportion of Middle English-derived vocabulary
ⓘ
loanwords from Anglo-Norman ⓘ loanwords from Irish ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology | fusional language ⓘ |
| hasNotableText |
A Yola Zong
ⓘ
The dialect of Forth and Bargy (1867) ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
preservation of older English consonant clusters
ⓘ
retention of Middle English vowel contrasts ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Anglo-Norman language
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglo-Norman
Irish language ⓘ Modern English ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | yol ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Anglic languages
ⓘ
Germanic languages ⓘ Indo-European languages ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-European language family
West Germanic languages ⓘ |
| region | southeast Ireland ⓘ |
| sharesFeatureWith |
Hiberno-English
ⓘ
linked to:
Irish English
Scots language ⓘ
linked to:
Scots
|
| spokenIn |
County Wexford
ⓘ
Forth and Bargy baronies ⓘ
linked to:
baronies of Forth and Bargy
|
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| studiedBy |
Jacob Poole
ⓘ
William Barnes ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Anglic language ⓘ |
| 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: Yola Description of subject: Yola is an extinct Germanic language that developed from Middle English and was once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
baronies of Forth and Bargy
subject linked to:
Forth and Bargy dialect (historical)