Kolami
E173499
Kolami is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Kolam tribal communities in central India, especially in parts of Maharashtra and Telangana.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kolami language | 4 |
| Kolami canonical | 3 |
| Northwestern Kolami | 1 |
| Southeastern Kolami | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1529241 — 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: Kolami Context triple: [South-Central Dravidian, includesLanguage, Kolami]
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A.
Kurukh
Kurukh is an indigenous Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Oraon tribal communities in eastern and central India.
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B.
Bagheli
Bagheli is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Bagelkhand region of central India, closely related to Hindi and used by millions as a regional vernacular.
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C.
Bagri
Bagri is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken primarily in parts of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab, often considered a dialect of Rajasthani.
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D.
Santhal
The Santhal are one of the largest indigenous Adivasi communities of eastern India, known for their distinct language, rich folk traditions, and long history of agrarian and forest-based livelihoods.
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E.
Lambadi
Lambadi is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken primarily by the Lambadi (Banjara) community across parts of northwestern and central India.
- 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: Kolami Target entity description: Kolami is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Kolam tribal communities in central India, especially in parts of Maharashtra and Telangana.
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A.
Kurukh
Kurukh is an indigenous Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Oraon tribal communities in eastern and central India.
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B.
Bagheli
Bagheli is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Bagelkhand region of central India, closely related to Hindi and used by millions as a regional vernacular.
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C.
Bagri
Bagri is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken primarily in parts of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab, often considered a dialect of Rajasthani.
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D.
Santhal
The Santhal are one of the largest indigenous Adivasi communities of eastern India, known for their distinct language, rich folk traditions, and long history of agrarian and forest-based livelihoods.
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E.
Lambadi
Lambadi is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken primarily by the Lambadi (Banjara) community across parts of northwestern and central India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dravidian language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| belongsToBranch | Kolami–Naiki subgroup ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Naiki
ⓘ
Ollari ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupAssociated | Kolam ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Kolamboli
ⓘ
Kolami ⓘ
surface form:
Kolami language
|
| hasCaseMarking | postpositions ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Kolami
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Northwestern Kolami
Kolami self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Southeastern Kolami
|
| hasGrammaticalCategory |
aspect
ⓘ
case ⓘ gender ⓘ mood ⓘ number ⓘ tense ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
derivational morphology on verbs
ⓘ
postposed clausal subordinators ⓘ rich system of verbal suffixes ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
retroflex consonants ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Marathi language
ⓘ
surface form:
Marathi
Telugu ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn |
Maharashtra
ⓘ
Telangana ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | kfb ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Dravidian ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| region | central India ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Kolam people
ⓘ
Kolam tribal communities ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
India
ⓘ
Maharashtra ⓘ Telangana ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Central Dravidian languages ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
Marathi language
ⓘ
surface form:
Marathi
Telugu ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication in Kolam communities
ⓘ
folk songs ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Devanagari script
ⓘ
surface form:
Devanagari
Telugu 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: Kolami Description of subject: Kolami is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Kolam tribal communities in central India, especially in parts of Maharashtra and Telangana.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kolami language
this entity surface form:
Northwestern Kolami
this entity surface form:
Southeastern Kolami
this entity surface form:
Kolami language
this entity surface form:
Kolami language
this entity surface form:
Kolami language