Ilami
E659421
Ilami is a regional variety of Southern Kurdish spoken primarily in and around the city of Ilam in western Iran.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ilami canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7346957 — 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: Ilami Context triple: [Southern Kurdish, hasDialect, Ilami]
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A.
Lemi
Lemi is a small rural municipality in southeastern Finland known for its lakes, forests, and traditional Karelian culture.
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B.
Almatti
Almatti is a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, India, known for its proximity to the major Almatti Dam on the Krishna River.
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C.
Ilai
Ilai is an early Jewish sage known primarily as the father of the prominent Tanna Rabbi Yehuda ben Ilai.
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D.
Othomi
Othomi is an alternative name for the Otomi people and their indigenous language of central Mexico.
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E.
Walili
Walili, better known as Volubilis, is an ancient Roman and early Islamic city in present-day Morocco that served as the first capital of the Idrisid dynasty.
- 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: Ilami Target entity description: Ilami is a regional variety of Southern Kurdish spoken primarily in and around the city of Ilam in western Iran.
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A.
Lemi
Lemi is a small rural municipality in southeastern Finland known for its lakes, forests, and traditional Karelian culture.
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B.
Almatti
Almatti is a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, India, known for its proximity to the major Almatti Dam on the Krishna River.
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C.
Ilai
Ilai is an early Jewish sage known primarily as the father of the prominent Tanna Rabbi Yehuda ben Ilai.
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D.
Othomi
Othomi is an alternative name for the Otomi people and their indigenous language of central Mexico.
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E.
Walili
Walili, better known as Volubilis, is an ancient Roman and early Islamic city in present-day Morocco that served as the first capital of the Idrisid dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
language variety
ⓘ
regional variety of Southern Kurdish ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Kermanshahi Kurdish
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Kurdish
Laki ⓘ |
| country | Iran ⓘ |
| hasDialectContinuumWith | other Southern Kurdish varieties ⓘ |
| hasFeature | ergative alignment in past tenses (shared with Kurdish varieties) ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Arabic
ⓘ
Persian ⓘ |
| ISO639Status | not assigned a separate ISO 639-3 code (grouped under Southern Kurdish) ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
Northwest Iranian languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Northwestern Iranian languages
|
| languageFamily |
Indo-European languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-European language family
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ Iranian languages ⓘ Kurdish ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
subject–object–verb word order ⓘ |
| minorityLanguageIn | Iran ⓘ |
| primaryRegion | city of Ilam and surrounding areas ⓘ |
| region |
Zagros Mountains area
ⓘ
linked to:
Zagros Mountains
|
| script | Perso-Arabic script ⓘ |
| sharesVocabularyWith | other Kurdish dialects ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Kurds of Ilam region ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Ilam
ⓘ
Ilam Province ⓘ western Iran ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Southern Kurdish ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday communication
ⓘ
oral tradition and folklore ⓘ |
| uses | postpositions ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Arabic script with Persian modifications ⓘ |
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: Ilami Description of subject: Ilami is a regional variety of Southern Kurdish spoken primarily in and around the city of Ilam in western Iran.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.