Idoma language
E286633
The Idoma language is a major Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Idoma people in central Nigeria, especially in Benue State.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Idoma language canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2662901 — 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: Idoma language Context triple: [Benue–Congo languages, hasNotableLanguage, Idoma language]
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A.
Ikposo language
The Ikposo language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Akposso people of Togo and neighboring regions.
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B.
Ibibio language
The Ibibio language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily in southeastern Nigeria by the Ibibio ethnic group and closely related to other Lower Cross River languages.
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C.
Urhobo language
The Urhobo language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Urhobo people of southern Nigeria, especially in Delta State.
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D.
Efik language
Efik language is a Niger-Congo language of southeastern Nigeria, traditionally spoken by the Efik people of the Cross River region and used historically as a regional lingua franca.
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E.
Tontemboan language
The Tontemboan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tontemboan people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is one of the traditional Minahasan languages of the 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: Idoma language Target entity description: The Idoma language is a major Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Idoma people in central Nigeria, especially in Benue State.
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A.
Ikposo language
The Ikposo language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Akposso people of Togo and neighboring regions.
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B.
Ibibio language
The Ibibio language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily in southeastern Nigeria by the Ibibio ethnic group and closely related to other Lower Cross River languages.
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C.
Urhobo language
The Urhobo language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Urhobo people of southern Nigeria, especially in Delta State.
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D.
Efik language
Efik language is a Niger-Congo language of southeastern Nigeria, traditionally spoken by the Efik people of the Cross River region and used historically as a regional lingua franca.
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E.
Tontemboan language
The Tontemboan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tontemboan people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is one of the traditional Minahasan languages of the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Idoma language Description of subject: The Idoma language is a major Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Idoma people in central Nigeria, especially in Benue State.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.