Nama
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Nama is a Khoe language spoken primarily by the Nama people in Namibia and neighboring regions of southern Africa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nama canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T730964 — 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: Nama Context triple: [Namibia, recognizedLanguage, Nama]
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A.
NAM
NAM is the commonly used acronym for the National Academy of Medicine, a leading U.S. nonprofit institution that provides expert advice on health, medicine, and biomedical science.
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B.
NAM
NAM is the commonly used abbreviation for the Non-Aligned Movement, an international grouping of states that sought to remain independent from major power blocs during the Cold War and beyond.
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C.
Namba
Namba is a major commercial and entertainment district in Osaka, Japan, known for its bustling nightlife, shopping, and iconic neon-lit streets.
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D.
Runasimi
Runasimi is the Indigenous Quechuan language family of the Andes, historically associated with the Inca Empire and still widely spoken across several South American countries.
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E.
The Names
The Names is a 1982 novel by Don DeLillo that blends political intrigue, linguistic obsession, and expatriate life in Greece and the Middle East into a meditative exploration of language, violence, and meaning.
- 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: Nama Target entity description: Nama is a Khoe language spoken primarily by the Nama people in Namibia and neighboring regions of southern Africa.
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A.
NAM
NAM is the commonly used abbreviation for the Non-Aligned Movement, an international grouping of states that sought to remain independent from major power blocs during the Cold War and beyond.
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B.
NAM
NAM is the commonly used acronym for the National Academy of Medicine, a leading U.S. nonprofit institution that provides expert advice on health, medicine, and biomedical science.
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C.
Namba
Namba is a major commercial and entertainment district in Osaka, Japan, known for its bustling nightlife, shopping, and iconic neon-lit streets.
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D.
Runasimi
Runasimi is the Indigenous Quechuan language family of the Andes, historically associated with the Inca Empire and still widely spoken across several South American countries.
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E.
The Names
The Names is a 1982 novel by Don DeLillo that blends political intrigue, linguistic obsession, and expatriate life in Greece and the Middle East into a meditative exploration of language, violence, and meaning.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Khoe language
ⓘ
Southern African language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Khoekhoe
ⓘ
linked to:
Khoisan languages
Khoekhoegowab ⓘ
linked to:
Khoisan languages
Nama/Damara ⓘ |
| belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup |
Khoekhoe
ⓘ
linked to:
Khoisan languages
|
| countryWithOfficialStatus | Namibia ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable language ⓘ |
| glottocode | nama1264 ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation |
Nama praise songs
ⓘ
Nama storytelling ⓘ Nama traditional poetry ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Damara varieties
ⓘ
central Nama varieties ⓘ southern Nama varieties ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
click consonants
ⓘ
subject–object–verb word order (SOV) ⓘ tonal language ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringContactLanguages |
Afrikaans
ⓘ
English ⓘ Herero ⓘ Oshiwambo ⓘ |
| hasOrthographicFeature | use of special symbols for clicks ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
four basic click types ⓘ tone distinctions ⓘ |
| hasStandardVariety | Standard Nama ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
| isMajorityKhoisanLanguageIn | Namibia ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | naq ⓘ |
| isTaughtAt |
University of Namibia (selected programs)
ⓘ
linked to:
University of Namibia main campus
|
| languageFamily | Khoe-Kwadi ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| region |
southern Africa
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Africa
|
| spokenBy |
Damara people
ⓘ
Nama people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Botswana
ⓘ
Namibia ⓘ South Africa ⓘ |
| subfamily | Khoe ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
education in some schools in Namibia ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ |
| usedInMedia | radio broadcasting in Namibia ⓘ |
| usedInReligion | Christian church services in some communities ⓘ |
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: Nama Description of subject: Nama is a Khoe language spoken primarily by the Nama people in Namibia and neighboring regions of southern Africa.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.