Teso language
E49228
Teso language is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Iteso people in eastern Uganda and western Kenya.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Teso language canonical | 9 |
| Ateso language | 5 |
| Iteso language | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T390596 — 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: Teso language Context triple: [Nilo-Saharan languages, includesLanguage, Teso language]
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A.
Achuar-Shiwiar language
The Achuar-Shiwiar language is a Jivaroan language spoken by the Achuar and Shiwiar Indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador and Peru.
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B.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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C.
Ipai language
The Ipai language is a Native American language traditionally spoken by the Kumeyaay (Ipai) people of southern California and northern Baja California.
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D.
Pichi language
Pichi is an English-based creole language spoken primarily in Equatorial Guinea, where it serves as a major lingua franca and has significantly shaped local varieties of Spanish.
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E.
Chemehuevi language
Chemehuevi language is a critically endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Chemehuevi people of the Great Basin region in the southwestern United States.
- 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: Teso language Target entity description: Teso language is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Iteso people in eastern Uganda and western Kenya.
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A.
Achuar-Shiwiar language
The Achuar-Shiwiar language is a Jivaroan language spoken by the Achuar and Shiwiar Indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador and Peru.
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B.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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C.
Ipai language
The Ipai language is a Native American language traditionally spoken by the Kumeyaay (Ipai) people of southern California and northern Baja California.
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D.
Pichi language
Pichi is an English-based creole language spoken primarily in Equatorial Guinea, where it serves as a major lingua franca and has significantly shaped local varieties of Spanish.
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E.
Chemehuevi language
Chemehuevi language is a critically endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Chemehuevi people of the Great Basin region in the southwestern United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eastern Nilotic language
ⓘ
language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Ateso language
ⓘ
linked to:
Teso language
Iteso language ⓘ
linked to:
Teso language
|
| closelyRelatedTo |
Karamojong language
ⓘ
linked to:
Maasai language
Nyangatom language ⓘ Toposa language ⓘ Turkana language ⓘ
linked to:
Nilotic languages
|
| ethnicGroup | Iteso people ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
regional varieties in Kenya
ⓘ
regional varieties in Uganda ⓘ |
| hasEthnologueEntry | Teso ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | teso1249 ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | teo ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
consonant length contrast
ⓘ
tone language ⓘ vowel length contrast ⓘ |
| hasStandardForm | orthography based on Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasStatus |
minority language in Kenya
ⓘ
regional language in Uganda ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Eastern Nilotic
ⓘ
linked to:
Nilotic languages
Nilo-Saharan ⓘ
linked to:
Nilo-Saharan languages
Nilotic ⓘ |
| nativeName | Ateso ⓘ |
| primaryCountry |
Kenya
ⓘ
Uganda ⓘ |
| region | East Africa ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Kenya
ⓘ
Uganda ⓘ eastern Uganda ⓘ western Kenya ⓘ
linked to:
Nyanza region
|
| subfamilyOf |
Eastern Nilotic languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Nilotic languages
Nilo-Saharan languages ⓘ Nilotic languages ⓘ Teso–Turkana languages ⓘ
linked to:
Nilotic languages
|
| usedBy | Iteso people ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication among Iteso people
ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ storytelling ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ |
| usedIn |
education in Teso sub-region
ⓘ
local administration in Teso areas ⓘ local media in eastern Uganda ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
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: Teso language Description of subject: Teso language is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Iteso people in eastern Uganda and western Kenya.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Teso language
linked to: Teso language
subject linked to:
Nilo-Saharian phylum
linked to: Teso language
linked to: Teso language
linked to: Teso language
linked to: Teso language
linked to: Teso language