Gur languages
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Gur languages are a large branch of the Niger–Congo language family spoken primarily in West Africa, especially in countries such as Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, and Ivory Coast.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gur languages canonical | 81 |
| Central Gur languages | 3 |
| Gur language family | 2 |
| Northern Gur languages | 2 |
| Eastern Gurunsi languages | 1 |
| Gur language | 1 |
| Gurma branch of Gur languages | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T424536 — 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: Gur languages Context triple: [Niger–Congo languages, majorSubgroup, Gur languages]
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A.
Batanic languages
Batanic languages are a small subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Batanes Islands of the northern Philippines and parts of Taiwan, known for their unique phonological and lexical features.
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B.
Gumuz languages
Gumuz languages are a small group of closely related, under-documented languages spoken primarily by the Gumuz people in parts of Ethiopia and Sudan.
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C.
Sabellic languages
The Sabellic languages are an extinct group of closely related Italic languages once spoken in central and southern Italy, distinct from Latin and including varieties such as Oscan and Umbrian.
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D.
Khoe languages
Khoe languages are a branch of southern African languages spoken mainly by Khoe peoples, known for their use of click consonants and distinct grammatical structures.
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E.
Luwic languages
Luwic languages are a branch of the Anatolian group of Indo-European languages, including Luwian and related tongues once spoken in ancient Anatolia (modern-day Turkey).
- 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: Gur languages Target entity description: Gur languages are a large branch of the Niger–Congo language family spoken primarily in West Africa, especially in countries such as Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, and Ivory Coast.
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A.
Batanic languages
Batanic languages are a small subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Batanes Islands of the northern Philippines and parts of Taiwan, known for their unique phonological and lexical features.
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B.
Gumuz languages
Gumuz languages are a small group of closely related, under-documented languages spoken primarily by the Gumuz people in parts of Ethiopia and Sudan.
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C.
Sabellic languages
The Sabellic languages are an extinct group of closely related Italic languages once spoken in central and southern Italy, distinct from Latin and including varieties such as Oscan and Umbrian.
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D.
Khoe languages
Khoe languages are a branch of southern African languages spoken mainly by Khoe peoples, known for their use of click consonants and distinct grammatical structures.
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E.
Luwic languages
Luwic languages are a branch of the Anatolian group of Indo-European languages, including Luwian and related tongues once spoken in ancient Anatolia (modern-day Turkey).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Gur languages Description of subject: Gur languages are a large branch of the Niger–Congo language family spoken primarily in West Africa, especially in countries such as Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, and Ivory Coast.
Referenced by (91)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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