Koya
E175235
Koya is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Koya tribal communities in parts of central and southern India.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Koya canonical | 9 |
| Koya basha | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1529236 — 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 Context triple: [South-Central Dravidian, includesLanguage, Koya]
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A.
Koya town
Koya town is a historic settlement in Japan best known as the center of Shingon Buddhism and home to the sacred Mount Koya temple complex.
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B.
Kurohime-yama
Kurohime-yama is a subsidiary peak of Japan’s Mount Akagi, known as part of the volcanic mountain’s multi-summit range in Gunma Prefecture.
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C.
Hyakutake
Hyakutake is a Japanese surname borne by several notable individuals, including military figures and other public personalities.
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D.
Fukuchiyama
Fukuchiyama is a regional city in northern Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, known as a historical castle town and commercial hub for the surrounding rural area.
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E.
Yamatokoriyama
Yamatokoriyama is a Japanese city in Nara Prefecture known for its historic Koriyama Castle and traditional goldfish breeding industry.
- 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 Target entity description: Koya is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Koya tribal communities in parts of central and southern India.
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A.
Koya town
Koya town is a historic settlement in Japan best known as the center of Shingon Buddhism and home to the sacred Mount Koya temple complex.
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B.
Kurohime-yama
Kurohime-yama is a subsidiary peak of Japan’s Mount Akagi, known as part of the volcanic mountain’s multi-summit range in Gunma Prefecture.
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C.
Hyakutake
Hyakutake is a Japanese surname borne by several notable individuals, including military figures and other public personalities.
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D.
Fukuchiyama
Fukuchiyama is a regional city in northern Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, known as a historical castle town and commercial hub for the surrounding rural area.
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E.
Yamatokoriyama
Yamatokoriyama is a Japanese city in Nara Prefecture known for its historic Koriyama Castle and traditional goldfish breeding industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dravidian language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Koya people ⓘ |
| family | Dravidian ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Koi
ⓘ
Koya basha ⓘ
linked to:
Koya
Koya language ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | kff ⓘ |
| linguisticBranch |
Gondi–Kui group
ⓘ
linked to:
Gondi–Kui subgroup
|
| region |
central India
ⓘ
southern India ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Gondi language
ⓘ
Kui language ⓘ Kuvi language ⓘ |
| script |
Devanagari
ⓘ
linked to:
Devanagari script
Telugu script ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Andhra Pradesh
ⓘ
Chhattisgarh ⓘ India ⓘ Odisha ⓘ
linked to:
Orissa
Telangana ⓘ |
| status | minority language ⓘ |
| subfamily | South-Central Dravidian ⓘ |
| usedBy | Koya tribal communities ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Koya is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Koya tribal communities in parts of central and southern India.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.