Lobi language
E267645
The Lobi language is a Gur language spoken primarily by the Lobi people in parts of Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lobi language canonical | 2 |
| Lobiri language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2446263 — 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: Lobi language Context triple: [Gur languages, hasMemberLanguage, Lobi language]
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A.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
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B.
Lamboya language
The Lamboya language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Lamboya people on the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia.
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C.
Lengo language
The Lengo language is an Oceanic language spoken on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, known for its place within the Southeast Solomonic subgroup.
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D.
Lamaholot language
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
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E.
Blablanga language
The Blablanga language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Northwest Solomonic subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
- 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: Lobi language Target entity description: The Lobi language is a Gur language spoken primarily by the Lobi people in parts of Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana.
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A.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
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B.
Lamboya language
The Lamboya language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Lamboya people on the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia.
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C.
Lengo language
The Lengo language is an Oceanic language spoken on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, known for its place within the Southeast Solomonic subgroup.
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D.
Lamaholot language
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
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E.
Blablanga language
The Blablanga language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Northwest Solomonic subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gur language
ⓘ
Niger–Congo language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country |
Burkina Faso
ⓘ
Côte d’Ivoire ⓘ
linked to:
Côte d'Ivoire
Ghana ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Lobi people ⓘ |
| glottocode | lobi1245 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Lobiri
ⓘ
Lobiri language ⓘ
linked to:
Lobi language
|
| hasDialects | Lobi dialects ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology | tonal language ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | lob ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Niger–Congo languages ⓘ |
| languageSubfamily |
Atlantic–Congo languages
ⓘ
Gur languages ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Gur language area ⓘ |
| macrofamily |
Niger–Congo
ⓘ
linked to:
Niger–Congo languages
|
| neighboringLanguages |
Birifor language
ⓘ
Dagara language ⓘ
linked to:
Dagaare language
|
| primarySpeakers | Lobi people ⓘ |
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Burkina Faso
ⓘ
Côte d’Ivoire ⓘ
linked to:
Côte d'Ivoire
Ghana ⓘ Ivory Coast ⓘ
linked to:
Côte d'Ivoire
|
| subclassification | Southern Gur languages ⓘ |
| usedBy | Lobi people ⓘ |
| 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: Lobi language Description of subject: The Lobi language is a Gur language spoken primarily by the Lobi people in parts of Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lobi language