Swati language
E131416
Swati language is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken primarily in Eswatini and parts of South Africa.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swati language canonical | 5 |
| Standard Swati | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1111673 — 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: Swati language Context triple: [Xhosa, closelyRelatedTo, Swati language]
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A.
Kurukh
Kurukh is an indigenous Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Oraon tribal communities in eastern and central India.
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B.
Maithili
Maithili is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the eastern Indian state of Bihar and neighboring regions, with a rich literary tradition and official recognition in India.
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C.
Bagheli
Bagheli is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Bagelkhand region of central India, closely related to Hindi and used by millions as a regional vernacular.
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D.
Sant Bhasha
Sant Bhasha is a historical North Indian devotional literary language used in Sikh and related spiritual poetry, written in the Gurmukhi script.
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E.
Shauraseni Prakrit
Shauraseni Prakrit is an ancient Middle Indo-Aryan language that served as a major literary and theatrical lingua franca in northern India and significantly influenced several modern Indo-Aryan 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: Swati language Target entity description: Swati language is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken primarily in Eswatini and parts of South Africa.
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A.
Kurukh
Kurukh is an indigenous Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Oraon tribal communities in eastern and central India.
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B.
Maithili
Maithili is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the eastern Indian state of Bihar and neighboring regions, with a rich literary tradition and official recognition in India.
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C.
Bagheli
Bagheli is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Bagelkhand region of central India, closely related to Hindi and used by millions as a regional vernacular.
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D.
Sant Bhasha
Sant Bhasha is a historical North Indian devotional literary language used in Sikh and related spiritual poetry, written in the Gurmukhi script.
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E.
Shauraseni Prakrit
Shauraseni Prakrit is an ancient Middle Indo-Aryan language that served as a major literary and theatrical lingua franca in northern India and significantly influenced several modern Indo-Aryan languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bantu language
ⓘ
Nguni language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Swazi
ⓘ
linked to:
Eswatini
siSwati ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Africa ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Ndebele language
ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Ndebele
Xhosa language ⓘ
linked to:
Xhosa
Zulu language ⓘ
linked to:
Zulu
|
| coOfficialLanguageOf | South Africa ⓘ |
| glottocode | swat1243 ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
varieties spoken in Eswatini
ⓘ
varieties spoken in South Africa ⓘ |
| hasEthnologueCode | ssw ⓘ |
| hasGrammarType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasLexicalSimilarityWith |
Xhosa language
ⓘ
linked to:
Xhosa
Zulu language ⓘ
linked to:
Zulu
|
| hasMorphology |
noun class agreement
ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasOrthography | standardized Latin-based orthography ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
click consonants
ⓘ
noun class system ⓘ |
| hasStandardForm |
Standard Swati
ⓘ
linked to:
Swati language
|
| hasSVOOrder | yes ⓘ |
| hasTonalSystem | two-tone system (high and low) ⓘ |
| iso639-1Code | ss ⓘ |
| iso639-2Code | ssw ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | ssw ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
Atlantic–Congo languages
ⓘ
Benue–Congo languages ⓘ Niger–Congo languages ⓘ Southern Bantu languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Bantu languages ⓘ |
| officialLanguageOf | Eswatini ⓘ |
| primarySpeakers | Swazi people ⓘ |
| region | Southern Africa ⓘ |
| regulatingBody | Eswatini National Curriculum Centre ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Eswatini
ⓘ
Lesotho ⓘ Mozambique ⓘ South Africa ⓘ |
| standardizedIn | 20th century ⓘ |
| subfamily | Nguni languages ⓘ |
| usedAs | language of instruction in early schooling in Eswatini ⓘ |
| usedIn |
broadcast media in Eswatini
ⓘ
education in Eswatini ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| 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: Swati language Description of subject: Swati language is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken primarily in Eswatini and parts of South Africa.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Swati language
linked to: Swati language