Kabye language
E267643
Kabye language is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern Togo and parts of neighboring West African countries by the Kabye people.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kabye language canonical | 4 |
| Kabre language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2446260 — 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: Kabye language Context triple: [Gur languages, hasMemberLanguage, Kabye language]
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A.
Kaba language
The Kaba language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily in parts of Chad and the Central African Republic by Kaba ethnic groups.
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B.
Baoulé language
The Baoulé language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Baoulé people of central Côte d'Ivoire.
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C.
Konjo language
The Konjo language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Konjo people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its distinct coastal and highland dialects.
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D.
Bowili language
The Bowili language is a lesser-known Niger-Congo language variety belonging to the Kwa branch, spoken by a small community in West Africa.
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E.
Banda-Ndélé language
The Banda-Ndélé language is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Banda people, primarily in the Central African Republic.
- 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: Kabye language Target entity description: Kabye language is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern Togo and parts of neighboring West African countries by the Kabye people.
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A.
Kaba language
The Kaba language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily in parts of Chad and the Central African Republic by Kaba ethnic groups.
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B.
Baoulé language
The Baoulé language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Baoulé people of central Côte d'Ivoire.
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C.
Konjo language
The Konjo language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Konjo people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its distinct coastal and highland dialects.
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D.
Bowili language
The Bowili language is a lesser-known Niger-Congo language variety belonging to the Kwa branch, spoken by a small community in West Africa.
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E.
Banda-Ndélé language
The Banda-Ndélé language is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Banda people, primarily in the Central African Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gur language
ⓘ
Niger–Congo language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Kabiye
ⓘ
Kabiyè ⓘ
linked to:
Kabiye
Kabye ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Africa ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Gurma languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Gurma language
Tem language ⓘ |
| countryOfficialStatus | recognized national language of Togo ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Kabye people ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
northern Kabye
ⓘ
southern Kabye ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | kabi1260 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Kabiye ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | kbp ⓘ |
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom |
Ewe language
ⓘ
linked to:
Ewe
French ⓘ Hausa language ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResearch | described in grammars and dictionaries ⓘ |
| hasMorphosyntacticAlignment | nominative–accusative ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakers | over 1 million speakers ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
nasal consonants ⓘ tone distinctions ⓘ |
| hasStandardization | orthography developed in 20th century ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Niger–Congo
ⓘ
linked to:
Niger–Congo languages
|
| nativeName |
Kabɩyɛ
ⓘ
linked to:
Kabiye
|
| primaryRegion | northern Togo ⓘ |
| regionOfUse |
Kara Region, Togo
ⓘ
Plateaux Region, Togo ⓘ
linked to:
Plateaux Region of Togo
|
| spokenIn |
Benin
ⓘ
Ghana ⓘ Togo ⓘ West Africa ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf |
Eastern Gurunsi languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Gur languages
Gur languages ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
noun class system ⓘ tone language ⓘ |
| usedBy | Kabye diaspora communities ⓘ |
| usedFor |
oral literature
ⓘ
radio broadcasting in Togo ⓘ religious practice ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | non-formal education programs in Togo ⓘ |
| 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: Kabye language Description of subject: Kabye language is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern Togo and parts of neighboring West African countries by the Kabye people.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kabye language