Bole
E222776
Bole is a West Chadic language spoken primarily in northeastern Nigeria, known for its complex tonal system and role as a regional lingua franca among Bole-speaking communities.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1987725 — 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: Bole Context triple: [West Chadic, hasMajorLanguage, Bole]
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A.
Nembe
Nembe is an Ijaw subgroup and town in Bayelsa State, Nigeria, known historically as a coastal trading center in the Niger Delta.
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B.
Kukawa
Kukawa is a historic town in northeastern Nigeria that once served as the political and cultural center of the Kanuri people and the Bornu Empire.
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C.
Tongolo
"Tongolo" is the breakthrough Afrobeat single by Nigerian artist D'banj that helped launch his music career across Africa.
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D.
Tola
Tola is a minor judge of Israel mentioned in the biblical Book of Judges, known for leading and delivering Israel for 23 years after the time of Abimelech.
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E.
Olosega
Olosega is a small volcanic island in the Manuʻa group of American Samoa, known for its dramatic cliffs, lush vegetation, and connection by bridge to the neighboring island of Ofu.
- 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: Bole Target entity description: Bole is a West Chadic language spoken primarily in northeastern Nigeria, known for its complex tonal system and role as a regional lingua franca among Bole-speaking communities.
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A.
Nembe
Nembe is an Ijaw subgroup and town in Bayelsa State, Nigeria, known historically as a coastal trading center in the Niger Delta.
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B.
Kukawa
Kukawa is a historic town in northeastern Nigeria that once served as the political and cultural center of the Kanuri people and the Bornu Empire.
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C.
Tongolo
"Tongolo" is the breakthrough Afrobeat single by Nigerian artist D'banj that helped launch his music career across Africa.
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D.
Tola
Tola is a minor judge of Israel mentioned in the biblical Book of Judges, known for leading and delivering Israel for 23 years after the time of Abimelech.
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E.
Olosega
Olosega is a small volcanic island in the Manuʻa group of American Samoa, known for its dramatic cliffs, lush vegetation, and connection by bridge to the neighboring island of Ofu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Afroasiatic language
ⓘ
Chadic language ⓘ West Chadic language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| ethnologueEntry | Bole ⓘ |
| glottocode | bole1246 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Bole (Nigeria)
ⓘ
Bole language ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
complex tonal system
ⓘ
tonal language ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | mostly agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Hausa
ⓘ
Karekare ⓘ Ngamo ⓘ Tangale ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
consonant length contrasts
ⓘ
contrastive tone ⓘ |
| hasRole | regional lingua franca ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | bol ⓘ |
| isSpokenByEthnicGroup | Bole ethnic group ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Afroasiatic
ⓘ
linked to:
Afroasiatic languages
|
| region |
Bauchi State
ⓘ
Gombe State ⓘ Yobe State ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Bole people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Nigeria
ⓘ
northeastern Nigeria ⓘ |
| subBranch | West Chadic ⓘ |
| subFamily |
Chadic
ⓘ
linked to:
Chadic languages
|
| subGroup | Bole–Tangale ⓘ |
| usedAs | lingua franca among Bole-speaking communities ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| 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: Bole Description of subject: Bole is a West Chadic language spoken primarily in northeastern Nigeria, known for its complex tonal system and role as a regional lingua franca among Bole-speaking communities.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bole
linked to: Bole