Magahi
E53011
Magahi is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Bihar and surrounding regions.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T395898 — 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: Magahi Context triple: [Maithili, closelyRelatedTo, Magahi]
-
A.
Sevagram
Sevagram is a village in Maharashtra, India, best known as Mahatma Gandhi’s residence and the site of his Sevagram Ashram during the Indian independence movement.
-
B.
Kadmat
Kadmat is a coral island in India’s Lakshadweep archipelago, known for its white-sand beaches, clear lagoons, and vibrant marine life that make it a popular destination for snorkeling and diving.
-
C.
Kundagannada
Kundagannada is a regional dialect of the Kannada language spoken primarily in the coastal districts of Karnataka, India.
-
D.
Harar Jugol
Harar Jugol is the historic walled city of Harar in eastern Ethiopia, renowned for its dense maze of alleyways, rich Islamic heritage, and distinctive traditional architecture.
-
E.
Sibi
Sibi is a historic town and district in the Balochistan region of Pakistan, known for its hot climate and traditional annual cattle and horse fair.
- 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: Magahi Target entity description: Magahi is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Bihar and surrounding regions.
-
A.
Sevagram
Sevagram is a village in Maharashtra, India, best known as Mahatma Gandhi’s residence and the site of his Sevagram Ashram during the Indian independence movement.
-
B.
Kadmat
Kadmat is a coral island in India’s Lakshadweep archipelago, known for its white-sand beaches, clear lagoons, and vibrant marine life that make it a popular destination for snorkeling and diving.
-
C.
Kundagannada
Kundagannada is a regional dialect of the Kannada language spoken primarily in the coastal districts of Karnataka, India.
-
D.
Harar Jugol
Harar Jugol is the historic walled city of Harar in eastern Ethiopia, renowned for its dense maze of alleyways, rich Islamic heritage, and distinctive traditional architecture.
-
E.
Sibi
Sibi is a historic town and district in the Balochistan region of Pakistan, known for its hot climate and traditional annual cattle and horse fair.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eastern Indo-Aryan language
ⓘ
Indo-Aryan language ⓘ language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Bhojpuri
ⓘ
Maithili ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Magadhi Prakrit ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Magadhi
ⓘ
linked to:
Magadhi Prakrit
Magahi language ⓘ |
| hasAncestor | Magadhi Prakrit ⓘ |
| hasApproximateSpeakers | over 10 million ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | maga1260 ⓘ |
| hasLanguageCodeISO639-2 | mag ⓘ |
| hasLanguageCodeISO639-3 | mag ⓘ |
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom |
English
ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ Sanskrit ⓘ Urdu ⓘ
linked to:
Urdu language
|
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
ergative alignment tendencies in past transitive constructions
ⓘ
postpositions instead of prepositions ⓘ |
| hasNativeSpeakers | millions ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrast between aspirated and unaspirated stops
ⓘ
three-way stop distinction by voicing and aspiration ⓘ |
| hasRegion |
Magadh region
ⓘ
parts of Jharkhand ⓘ southern Bihar ⓘ
linked to:
Magadh region
|
| hasSyntacticFeature |
basic SOV word order
ⓘ
use of sentence-final particles ⓘ |
| notOfficialLanguageOf |
Bihar as separate language (often grouped under Hindi)
ⓘ
India at national level ⓘ |
| partOf |
Indo-Aryan branch
ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family ⓘ Indo-Iranian branch ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-Iranian languages
|
| recognizedAs | vulnerable language in some classifications ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Hindi ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Assam
ⓘ
Bihar ⓘ India ⓘ Jharkhand ⓘ Nepal ⓘ Uttar Pradesh ⓘ West Bengal ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Bihari languages ⓘ |
| usedFor |
folk songs
ⓘ
folk tales ⓘ local theatre ⓘ oral literature ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Devanagari script
ⓘ
Kaithi 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: Magahi Description of subject: Magahi is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Bihar and surrounding regions.
Referenced by (100)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.