Kusaal language
E267640
Kusaal is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern Ghana and neighboring parts of Burkina Faso by the Kusaasi people.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kusaal language canonical | 13 |
| Kusaal is a major local language in Bawku area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2446257 — 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: Kusaal language Context triple: [Gur languages, hasMemberLanguage, Kusaal language]
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A.
Saluan language
The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Kalanguya language
The Kalanguya language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalanguya people in the northern Luzon highlands of the Philippines.
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C.
Kayeli language
The Kayeli language is an Austronesian language once spoken on Buru Island in Indonesia, now critically endangered or possibly extinct.
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D.
Siuslaw language
The Siuslaw language is an extinct Native American language once spoken along the central Oregon coast, often classified within the proposed Penutian language family.
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E.
Murle language
The Murle language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Murle people of South Sudan.
- 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: Kusaal language Target entity description: Kusaal is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern Ghana and neighboring parts of Burkina Faso by the Kusaasi people.
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A.
Saluan language
The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Kalanguya language
The Kalanguya language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalanguya people in the northern Luzon highlands of the Philippines.
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C.
Kayeli language
The Kayeli language is an Austronesian language once spoken on Buru Island in Indonesia, now critically endangered or possibly extinct.
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D.
Siuslaw language
The Siuslaw language is an extinct Native American language once spoken along the central Oregon coast, often classified within the proposed Penutian language family.
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E.
Murle language
The Murle language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Murle people of South Sudan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gur language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ subject–verb–object language ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ghana ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Kusaasi ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Koussassé
ⓘ
Kusale ⓘ Kusasi ⓘ |
| hasBibleTranslation | Bible translated into Kusaal ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Agole Kusaal
ⓘ
linked to:
Kusaal
Toende Kusaal ⓘ |
| hasEducationalUse | used in basic education in parts of Ghana ⓘ |
| hasEndangermentStatus | vigorous use in core area ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | kusa1250 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Kusaal ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | kus ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticRelation |
closely related to Dagbani
ⓘ
closely related to Mampruli ⓘ closely related to Moore ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
noun class remnants
ⓘ
verbal aspect marking ⓘ |
| hasNeighbouringLanguage |
Bisa
ⓘ
Buli ⓘ Dagbani ⓘ Mampruli ⓘ Moore ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | tone language ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerPopulationStatus | regional minority language ⓘ |
| hasStandardizationStatus | has orthographic standard in Ghana ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Niger–Congo language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Niger–Congo languages
|
| languageFamily | Gur languages ⓘ |
| primaryRegion |
Bawku area
ⓘ
linked to:
Bawku
|
| region | Upper East Region of Ghana ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Kusaasi people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Burkina Faso
ⓘ
Ghana ⓘ West Africa ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Oti–Volta languages
ⓘ
Western Oti–Volta languages ⓘ
linked to:
Oti–Volta languages
|
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ religious practice ⓘ |
| 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: Kusaal language Description of subject: Kusaal is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern Ghana and neighboring parts of Burkina Faso by the Kusaasi people.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kusaal language