Sarikoli
E228138
Sarikoli is an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Tajik ethnic community in the Tashkurgan region of Xinjiang, China.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarikoli canonical | 4 |
| Sarikoli (sometimes classified separately) | 1 |
| Sariqoli | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2042483 — 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: Sarikoli Context triple: [Eastern Iranian languages, hasMember, Sarikoli]
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A.
Khashuri
Khashuri is a town in central Georgia that serves as an important regional transport hub and gateway between eastern and western parts of the country.
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B.
Demerdzhi
Demerdzhi is a notable mountain massif in Crimea, famous for its striking rock formations and scenic landscapes.
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C.
Kolis
The Kolis are a prominent fishing and agrarian community of western India, particularly associated with coastal and riverine regions.
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D.
Katchal
Katchal is a dialect of the Nicobarese language spoken by the indigenous community on Katchal Island in India’s Nicobar Islands.
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E.
Gardabani
Gardabani is a town in southeastern Georgia known for its role as an industrial and energy hub within the Kvemo Kartli region.
- 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: Sarikoli Target entity description: Sarikoli is an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Tajik ethnic community in the Tashkurgan region of Xinjiang, China.
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A.
Khashuri
Khashuri is a town in central Georgia that serves as an important regional transport hub and gateway between eastern and western parts of the country.
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B.
Demerdzhi
Demerdzhi is a notable mountain massif in Crimea, famous for its striking rock formations and scenic landscapes.
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C.
Kolis
The Kolis are a prominent fishing and agrarian community of western India, particularly associated with coastal and riverine regions.
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D.
Katchal
Katchal is a dialect of the Nicobarese language spoken by the indigenous community on Katchal Island in India’s Nicobar Islands.
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E.
Gardabani
Gardabani is a town in southeastern Georgia known for its role as an industrial and energy hub within the Kvemo Kartli region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eastern Iranian language
ⓘ
Iranian language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Sariqoli
ⓘ
linked to:
Sarikoli
Tashkurgan Sarikoli ⓘ Tashkurgan Tajik ⓘ
linked to:
Tashkurgan
|
| associatedEthnicity | Tajik people of Tashkurgan ⓘ |
| belongsToBranch | Pamir branch of Eastern Iranian (in some classifications) ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Rushani
ⓘ
Shughni ⓘ |
| communityBilingualism |
Chinese
ⓘ
Tajik (Persian variety) ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | limited descriptive grammars and wordlists ⓘ |
| endangermentCause |
shift to Chinese
ⓘ
shift to Tajik (Persian-based) standard ⓘ |
| ethnologueEntry | yes ⓘ |
| glottocode | sari1248 ⓘ |
| hasCase |
nominative
ⓘ
oblique ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
ergative alignment in past tenses (split ergativity)
ⓘ
grammatical gender ⓘ rich case system ⓘ |
| hasNumber |
plural
ⓘ
singular ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | srh ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Iranian ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Pamir languages ⓘ |
| notMutuallyIntelligibleWith |
Tajik (variety of Persian)
ⓘ
linked to:
Tajik language
|
| officialStatusInChina | none ⓘ |
| phonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (reported)
ⓘ
series of retroflex consonants (reported) ⓘ |
| primaryDomainOfUse | home and local community ⓘ |
| region |
Pamir region
ⓘ
linked to:
Hindu Kush–Pamir region
|
| script |
Arabic script
ⓘ
Latin script (informal, nonstandard) ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Tajik ethnic community in Tashkurgan
ⓘ
Tajiks of China ⓘ
linked to:
Tajiks
|
| spokenIn |
China
ⓘ
Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County ⓘ
linked to:
Tashkurgan
Xinjiang ⓘ |
| status |
endangered language
ⓘ
minority language ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Eastern Iranian
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Iranian languages
|
| usedInEducation | no (Chinese and standard Tajik are used instead) ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| writingStandard | no fully standardized orthography ⓘ |
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: Sarikoli Description of subject: Sarikoli is an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Tajik ethnic community in the Tashkurgan region of Xinjiang, China.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sarikoli
linked to: Sarikoli