Jola
E193598
Jola is a Niger–Congo language spoken primarily by the Jola people of southern Senegal and neighboring regions.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jola canonical | 6 |
| Jola-Fonyi | 2 |
| Jola-Bliss | 1 |
| Jola-Felupe | 1 |
| Jola-Karon | 1 |
| Jola-Kasa | 1 |
| Jola-Kujireray | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1709548 — 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: Jola Context triple: [Senegal, nationalLanguage, Jola]
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A.
Mola
Mola is a Spanish surname most notably associated with Emilio Mola, a key Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War.
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B.
Madalena
Madalena is a neighborhood in the Brazilian city of Recife, known for its urban character and local commerce.
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C.
Ederle
Ederle is the surname of Gertrude Ederle, the American competitive swimmer famed for being the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
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D.
Diu
Diu is a coastal town and former Portuguese colonial enclave on India’s western coast, known for its historic fort, churches, and beaches.
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E.
Jala
Jala is a municipality and town in the Mexican state of Nayarit, known for its agricultural traditions and proximity to the Ceboruco volcano.
- 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: Jola Target entity description: Jola is a Niger–Congo language spoken primarily by the Jola people of southern Senegal and neighboring regions.
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A.
Mola
Mola is a Spanish surname most notably associated with Emilio Mola, a key Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War.
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B.
Madalena
Madalena is a neighborhood in the Brazilian city of Recife, known for its urban character and local commerce.
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C.
Ederle
Ederle is the surname of Gertrude Ederle, the American competitive swimmer famed for being the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
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D.
Diu
Diu is a coastal town and former Portuguese colonial enclave on India’s western coast, known for its historic fort, churches, and beaches.
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E.
Jala
Jala is a municipality and town in the Mexican state of Nayarit, known for its agricultural traditions and proximity to the Ceboruco volcano.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Niger–Congo language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Balanta language
ⓘ
Manjaku language ⓘ |
| country |
Guinea-Bissau
ⓘ
Senegal ⓘ The Gambia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jola people ⓘ |
| family |
Niger–Congo language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Niger–Congo languages
|
| glottologCode | jola1263 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Diola
ⓘ
Dyola ⓘ Joola ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Jola-Bandial
ⓘ
Jola-Bliss ⓘ
linked to:
Jola
Jola-Felupe ⓘ
linked to:
Jola
Jola-Fonyi ⓘ
linked to:
Jola
Jola-Karon ⓘ
linked to:
Jola
Jola-Kasa ⓘ
linked to:
Jola
Jola-Kujireray ⓘ
linked to:
Jola
|
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
implosive consonants
ⓘ
nasal vowels ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | dyo ⓘ |
| languageOf | Jola culture ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology |
agglutinative language
ⓘ
tonal language ⓘ |
| primarySpeakers | Jola people ⓘ |
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Casamance region
ⓘ
linked to:
Casamance
Guinea-Bissau ⓘ Senegal ⓘ The Gambia ⓘ southern Senegal ⓘ
linked to:
Casamance
|
| subfamily | Atlantic–Congo languages ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday communication
ⓘ
local media ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ |
| usedIn | traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| 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: Jola Description of subject: Jola is a Niger–Congo language spoken primarily by the Jola people of southern Senegal and neighboring regions.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jola