Kabiye
E209614
Kabiye is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern Togo and recognized as one of the country's major national languages.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1855849 — 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: Kabiye Context triple: [Togo, nationalLanguage, Kabiye]
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A.
Khobi
Khobi is a small town in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region of western Georgia, serving as a local administrative and cultural center.
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B.
Zabana
Zabana is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, primarily on Santa Isabel Island.
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C.
Shabara
Shabara was an early Indian philosopher and commentator best known for his influential exegesis on the Purva Mimamsa school of Hindu philosophy.
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D.
Ishbak
Ishbak is a lesser-known son of the biblical patriarch Abraham, mentioned among the children he had later in life.
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E.
Baashha
Baashha is a hugely popular 1995 Tamil action film starring Rajinikanth, celebrated for its iconic dialogues, mass appeal, and enduring cult status in Indian cinema.
- 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: Kabiye Target entity description: Kabiye is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern Togo and recognized as one of the country's major national languages.
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A.
Khobi
Khobi is a small town in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region of western Georgia, serving as a local administrative and cultural center.
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B.
Zabana
Zabana is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, primarily on Santa Isabel Island.
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C.
Shabara
Shabara was an early Indian philosopher and commentator best known for his influential exegesis on the Purva Mimamsa school of Hindu philosophy.
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D.
Ishbak
Ishbak is a lesser-known son of the biblical patriarch Abraham, mentioned among the children he had later in life.
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E.
Baashha
Baashha is a hugely popular 1995 Tamil action film starring Rajinikanth, celebrated for its iconic dialogues, mass appeal, and enduring cult status in Indian cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gur language
ⓘ
Niger–Congo language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| altName |
Kabiyè
ⓘ
linked to:
Kabiye
Kabiyé ⓘ
linked to:
Kabye
Kabye ⓘ Kabye language ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Gurma branch of Gur languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Gur languages
|
| country | Togo ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Kabye people ⓘ |
| glottocode | kabi1260 ⓘ |
| hasBibleTranslation | yes ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
literature in Togo
ⓘ
local administration in northern Togo ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
noun class system ⓘ tone language ⓘ |
| hasOrthography | standardized orthography ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone
ⓘ
vowel harmony ⓘ |
| hasRegulator | Togolese Ministry of Education ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
| ISO639-2Code | kbp ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | kbp ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Niger–Congo
ⓘ
linked to:
Niger–Congo languages
|
| neighboringLanguages |
Dagbani
ⓘ
Ewe ⓘ Tem ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | national language of Togo ⓘ |
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Benin
ⓘ
Burkina Faso ⓘ Ghana ⓘ Togo ⓘ |
| spokenPrimarilyIn | northern Togo ⓘ |
| subfamily | Gur ⓘ |
| subgroup |
Gurma languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Gurma language
|
| usedAs | lingua franca in parts of northern Togo ⓘ |
| usedFor |
education in Togo
ⓘ
radio broadcasting in Togo ⓘ religious activities in Togo ⓘ |
| usedIn | primary education in northern Togo ⓘ |
| writingStandardDeveloped | 20th century ⓘ |
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: Kabiye Description of subject: Kabiye is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern Togo and recognized as one of the country's major national languages.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kabiye
linked to: Kabiye
linked to: Kabiye
linked to: Kabiye