Boa Vista Creole
E162978
Boa Vista Creole is a regional variety of Cape Verdean Creole spoken primarily on the island of Boa Vista in Cape Verde.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boa Vista Creole canonical | 5 |
| Barlavento variety of Cape Verdean Creole | 1 |
| Kriol di Boa Vista | 1 |
| Kriolu | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1340634 — 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: Boa Vista Creole Context triple: [Cape Verdean Creole, hasPart, Boa Vista Creole]
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A.
São Nicolau Creole
São Nicolau Creole is a regional variant of Cape Verdean Creole spoken primarily on the island of São Nicolau, characterized by its own distinct phonological and lexical features.
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B.
Angolar Creole
Angolar Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken primarily by the Angolar community of São Tomé and Príncipe, known for its distinct African linguistic substrate and historical roots in maroon slave populations.
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C.
Guinea-Bissau Creole
Guinea-Bissau Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language widely used as a lingua franca in Guinea-Bissau, blending Portuguese vocabulary with local West African linguistic features.
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D.
Creole
Creole refers to a mixed-heritage ethnic community in Mauritius, typically descended from African, Malagasy, and European ancestors and central to the island’s Afro-Mauritian culture.
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E.
Antillean Creole
Antillean Creole is a French-based creole language spoken primarily in the Lesser Antilles, notably in Martinique, Guadeloupe, and surrounding islands.
- 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: Boa Vista Creole Target entity description: Boa Vista Creole is a regional variety of Cape Verdean Creole spoken primarily on the island of Boa Vista in Cape Verde.
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A.
São Nicolau Creole
São Nicolau Creole is a regional variant of Cape Verdean Creole spoken primarily on the island of São Nicolau, characterized by its own distinct phonological and lexical features.
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B.
Angolar Creole
Angolar Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken primarily by the Angolar community of São Tomé and Príncipe, known for its distinct African linguistic substrate and historical roots in maroon slave populations.
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C.
Guinea-Bissau Creole
Guinea-Bissau Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language widely used as a lingua franca in Guinea-Bissau, blending Portuguese vocabulary with local West African linguistic features.
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D.
Creole
Creole refers to a mixed-heritage ethnic community in Mauritius, typically descended from African, Malagasy, and European ancestors and central to the island’s Afro-Mauritian culture.
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E.
Antillean Creole
Antillean Creole is a French-based creole language spoken primarily in the Lesser Antilles, notably in Martinique, Guadeloupe, and surrounding islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Atlantic Creole
ⓘ
Cape Verdean Creole variety ⓘ Portuguese-based creole ⓘ spoken language ⓘ |
| archipelago | Cape Verde Islands ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Barlavento Creoles ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Sal Creole
ⓘ
São Nicolau Creole ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country |
Cape Verde
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Verde Islands
|
| developedFrom | contact between Portuguese and African languages ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Boa Vista variety of Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ |
| hasDialectContinuumWith |
Brava Creole
ⓘ
Fogo Creole ⓘ Maio Creole ⓘ Sal Creole ⓘ Santiago Creole ⓘ Santo Antão Creole ⓘ São Nicolau Creole ⓘ São Vicente Creole ⓘ |
| hasGrammarSimilarTo | other Cape Verdean Creoles ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceFrom |
Portuguese
ⓘ
linked to:
Portuguese language
West African languages ⓘ |
| hasPhonologySimilarTo | other Barlavento varieties ⓘ |
| ISO639Macrolanguage |
Kabuverdianu
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Verdean Creole
|
| languageFamily |
Creole language
ⓘ
Portuguese Creole ⓘ |
| languageOf | Boa Vista population ⓘ |
| lexifierLanguage |
Portuguese
ⓘ
linked to:
Portuguese language
|
| partOf | Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ |
| primaryUse | oral communication ⓘ |
| region |
Boa Vista Island
ⓘ
linked to:
Boa Vista
|
| sociolinguisticStatus | primarily spoken, rarely standardized in writing ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Boa Vista
ⓘ
Cape Verde ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Verde Islands
|
| status | regional language variety ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
SVO basic word order
ⓘ
analytic morphology ⓘ use of preverbal tense–aspect–mood markers ⓘ |
| usedAlongside | Portuguese in Cape Verde ⓘ |
| usedIn |
daily conversation
ⓘ
informal contexts ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Boa Vista Creole Description of subject: Boa Vista Creole is a regional variety of Cape Verdean Creole spoken primarily on the island of Boa Vista in Cape Verde.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Boa Vista Creole
linked to: Boa Vista Creole
linked to: Boa Vista Creole