Lomwe
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Lomwe is a Bantu language spoken primarily in Mozambique and Malawi by the Lomwe people.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lomwe canonical | 4 |
| Cilomwe | 1 |
| Malawi Lomwe | 1 |
| Mozambique Lomwe | 1 |
| Silozi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1187839 — 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: Lomwe Context triple: [Southern Bantu, hasMemberLanguage, Lomwe]
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A.
Makhuwa
Makhuwa is a major Bantu language spoken primarily in northern Mozambique by the Makhuwa people.
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B.
Lilangeni
The lilangeni is the official monetary unit of Eswatini, subdivided into 100 cents and commonly used alongside the South African rand.
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C.
Lusiana
Lusiana is a small town in the Veneto region of northern Italy, known as the birthplace of Indian politician Sonia Gandhi.
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D.
Bongi
Bongi is a neighborhood located in the city of Recife, in northeastern Brazil.
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E.
Kasulu
Kasulu is a town in western Tanzania that serves as one of the main urban and commercial centers of the Kigoma Region.
- 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: Lomwe Target entity description: Lomwe is a Bantu language spoken primarily in Mozambique and Malawi by the Lomwe people.
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A.
Makhuwa
Makhuwa is a major Bantu language spoken primarily in northern Mozambique by the Makhuwa people.
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B.
Lilangeni
The lilangeni is the official monetary unit of Eswatini, subdivided into 100 cents and commonly used alongside the South African rand.
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C.
Lusiana
Lusiana is a small town in the Veneto region of northern Italy, known as the birthplace of Indian politician Sonia Gandhi.
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D.
Bongi
Bongi is a neighborhood located in the city of Recife, in northeastern Brazil.
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E.
Kasulu
Kasulu is a town in western Tanzania that serves as one of the main urban and commercial centers of the Kigoma Region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Lomwe Description of subject: Lomwe is a Bantu language spoken primarily in Mozambique and Malawi by the Lomwe people.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.