Khoe
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Khoe is a branch of the Khoe–Kwadi language family spoken by various Khoisan communities in southern Africa.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3959350 — 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: Khoe Context triple: [Nama, subfamily, Khoe]
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A.
Khobi
Khobi is a small town in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region of western Georgia, serving as a local administrative and cultural center.
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B.
Mekoche
Mekoche is one of the principal divisions of the Shawnee people, historically recognized as a distinct clan or band within the larger Shawnee nation.
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C.
Kohat
Kohat is a historic city in northwestern Pakistan known for its strategic location, military cantonment, and role as a regional administrative and commercial center.
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D.
Kabiye
Kabiye is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern Togo and recognized as one of the country's major national languages.
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E.
Xai-Xai
Xai-Xai is a coastal city in southern Mozambique that serves as the capital of Gaza Province and a regional center for agriculture, fishing, and tourism.
- 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: Khoe Target entity description: Khoe is a branch of the Khoe–Kwadi language family spoken by various Khoisan communities in southern Africa.
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A.
Khobi
Khobi is a small town in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region of western Georgia, serving as a local administrative and cultural center.
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B.
Mekoche
Mekoche is one of the principal divisions of the Shawnee people, historically recognized as a distinct clan or band within the larger Shawnee nation.
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C.
Kohat
Kohat is a historic city in northwestern Pakistan known for its strategic location, military cantonment, and role as a regional administrative and commercial center.
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D.
Kabiye
Kabiye is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern Togo and recognized as one of the country's major national languages.
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E.
Xai-Xai
Xai-Xai is a coastal city in southern Mozambique that serves as the capital of Gaza Province and a regional center for agriculture, fishing, and tourism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
group of languages
ⓘ
language branch ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Central Khoisan
ⓘ
linked to:
Khoisan peoples
Khoe languages ⓘ Khoe-Khoe ⓘ
linked to:
Khoe
|
| hasCharacteristic |
tonal language branch
ⓘ
uses click consonants ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Buga
ⓘ
Damara ⓘ Gǀui ⓘ Gǁana ⓘ Haiǁom ⓘ Khoekhoegowab ⓘ
linked to:
Khoikhoi language
Khwe ⓘ Kxoe ⓘ
linked to:
Khoe
Nama ⓘ Naro ⓘ Nǁngm ⓘ Shua ⓘ Tshwa ⓘ ||Ani ⓘ ||Xekhoe ⓘ |
| hasMajorSubgroup |
Kalahari Khoe
ⓘ
Khoekhoe ⓘ
linked to:
Khoisan languages
|
| hasSubgroup |
Eastern Kalahari Khoe
ⓘ
Kalahari Khoe branch ⓘ Khoekhoe branch ⓘ Western Kalahari Khoe ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Khoe–Kwadi ⓘ |
| linguisticClassification | Afroasiatic-related hypothesis rejected by most scholars ⓘ |
| partOf | Khoe–Kwadi language family ⓘ |
| region |
Angola
ⓘ
Botswana ⓘ Namibia ⓘ South Africa ⓘ Zambia ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Khoisan communities ⓘ |
| spokenIn | southern Africa ⓘ |
| studiedInDiscipline | Khoisan linguistics ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Khoisan languages ⓘ |
| usedByEthnicGroup |
Damara people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Haiǁom people NERFINISHED ⓘ Khwe people NERFINISHED ⓘ Nama people ⓘ Naro people NERFINISHED ⓘ Shua people ⓘ Tshwa people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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: Khoe Description of subject: Khoe is a branch of the Khoe–Kwadi language family spoken by various Khoisan communities in southern Africa.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Khoe
linked to: Khoe