Inga language
E926116
Inga language is a Quechuan language spoken primarily by the Inga people of southern Colombia, particularly in the Putumayo and Caquetá regions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Inga language canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11437505 — 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: Inga language Context triple: [Inga, language, Inga language]
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A.
Angika language
Angika language is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in parts of Bihar and Jharkhand in India, known for its close relation to Maithili and its rich regional literary tradition.
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B.
Ngada language
The Ngada language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Ngada people in central Flores, Indonesia, known for its complex verbal morphology and rich oral tradition.
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C.
Sanglechi language
The Sanglechi language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by a small community in the Sanglech Valley region of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
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D.
Tembe language
The Tembe language is an indigenous Tupi-Guarani language spoken by the Tembé people of northern Brazil.
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E.
Kalanga language
The Kalanga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Kalanga people in parts of Botswana and southwestern Zimbabwe.
- 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: Inga language Target entity description: Inga language is a Quechuan language spoken primarily by the Inga people of southern Colombia, particularly in the Putumayo and Caquetá regions.
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A.
Angika language
Angika language is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in parts of Bihar and Jharkhand in India, known for its close relation to Maithili and its rich regional literary tradition.
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B.
Ngada language
The Ngada language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Ngada people in central Flores, Indonesia, known for its complex verbal morphology and rich oral tradition.
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C.
Sanglechi language
The Sanglechi language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by a small community in the Sanglech Valley region of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
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D.
Tembe language
The Tembe language is an indigenous Tupi-Guarani language spoken by the Tembé people of northern Brazil.
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E.
Kalanga language
The Kalanga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Kalanga people in parts of Botswana and southwestern Zimbabwe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American language
ⓘ
Quechuan language ⓘ indigenous language of the Americas ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Colombian Quechua
ⓘ
Inga Quechua ⓘ Ingano ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Andean linguistic area ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Kichwa language
ⓘ
Quechua language ⓘ
linked to:
Quechua
|
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Colombia ⓘ |
| documentedBy | linguistic fieldwork in southern Colombia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Inga people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family |
Quechuan languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Quechuan language family
|
| glottocode | inga1252 ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Highland Inga
ⓘ
linked to:
Inga
Jungle Inga ⓘ
linked to:
Inga
|
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
case marking by suffixes
ⓘ
evidentiality markers ⓘ suffixal morphology ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom | Spanish language ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | three-vowel system ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | inb ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
Quechua II
ⓘ
linked to:
Huanca Quechua
|
| languageFamily | Quechuan ⓘ |
| lexifierFor | Inga-based neologisms in local education materials ⓘ |
| nativeTo | southern Colombia ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | indigenous language in Colombia ⓘ |
| region | Colombia ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Inga people of Caquetá
ⓘ
linked to:
Inga people
Inga people of Putumayo ⓘ
linked to:
Inga people
|
| spokenIn |
Caquetá Department
ⓘ
Putumayo Department ⓘ |
| status | vulnerable ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Quechua II
ⓘ
linked to:
Huanca Quechua
|
| subjectOf | language revitalization efforts ⓘ |
| taughtIn | bilingual intercultural education programs in Colombia ⓘ |
| usedAs | marker of Inga cultural identity ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Inga communities in Caquetá
ⓘ
Inga communities in Putumayo ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local education programs in Inga communities
ⓘ
oral literature of the Inga people ⓘ traditional Inga rituals ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
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: Inga language Description of subject: Inga language is a Quechuan language spoken primarily by the Inga people of southern Colombia, particularly in the Putumayo and Caquetá regions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.