Goemai
E222784
Goemai is a West Chadic language spoken primarily in central Nigeria by the Goemai people.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Goemai canonical | 4 |
| Gomai | 1 |
| Guyohkohnyo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1987734 — 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: Goemai Context triple: [West Chadic, hasMajorLanguage, Goemai]
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A.
Gomi
Gomi is a settlement in central Georgia located within the administrative boundaries of Khashuri Municipality.
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B.
Germoe
Germoe is a small rural village and civil parish in west Cornwall, England, known for its historic church and scenic countryside near the coast.
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C.
Gamosa
Gamosa is a traditional Assamese handwoven cotton cloth, typically white with red borders and motifs, symbolizing respect, cultural identity, and social bonding in Assam.
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D.
Honancho
Honancho is a neighborhood in Tokyo, Japan, known as a residential area with convenient access to central city districts via the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line.
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E.
Shigmo
Shigmo is a spring harvest and Holi-related folk festival celebrated with vibrant processions, traditional dances, and music in Goa and the Konkan region of 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: Goemai Target entity description: Goemai is a West Chadic language spoken primarily in central Nigeria by the Goemai people.
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A.
Gomi
Gomi is a settlement in central Georgia located within the administrative boundaries of Khashuri Municipality.
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B.
Germoe
Germoe is a small rural village and civil parish in west Cornwall, England, known for its historic church and scenic countryside near the coast.
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C.
Gamosa
Gamosa is a traditional Assamese handwoven cotton cloth, typically white with red borders and motifs, symbolizing respect, cultural identity, and social bonding in Assam.
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D.
Honancho
Honancho is a neighborhood in Tokyo, Japan, known as a residential area with convenient access to central city districts via the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line.
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E.
Shigmo
Shigmo is a spring harvest and Holi-related folk festival celebrated with vibrant processions, traditional dances, and music in Goa and the Konkan region of India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Afroasiatic language
ⓘ
Chadic language ⓘ West Chadic language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Goemai people ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDescription |
described in works by linguist Birgit Hellwig
ⓘ
described in works by linguist Ulrike Kleinewillinghöfer ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Ankwe
ⓘ
Ankwei ⓘ Ankwei-Goemai ⓘ Goemay ⓘ Goemai ⓘ
surface form:
Gomai
Gomaye ⓘ
surface form:
Gomaiya
Gomaye ⓘ |
| hasEndangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | goem1244 ⓘ |
| hasGrammar | reference grammar published in the 21st century ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | ank ⓘ |
| hasLexicographicWork | documented wordlists and dictionaries ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
SVO word order
ⓘ
analytic language ⓘ tone language ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | limited inflection ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguages |
Mupun
ⓘ
Ngas ⓘ Tarok ⓘ other Plateau and West Chadic languages ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakers | tens of thousands ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
consonant inventory typical of West Chadic languages
ⓘ
contrastive tone ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticStatus | local language in Nigeria ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Angas–Sura subgroup
ⓘ
surface form:
Angas–Sura group
West Chadic ⓘ
surface form:
West Chadic A branch
|
| languageBranch |
Chadic languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Chadic
|
| languageFamily |
Afroasiatic languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Afroasiatic
|
| languageSubbranch | West Chadic ⓘ |
| region |
Plateau State
ⓘ
Shendam ⓘ
surface form:
Shendam area
|
| spokenBy | Goemai people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Nigeria
ⓘ
central Nigeria ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
Hausa
ⓘ
Nigerian English ⓘ |
| usedFor | everyday communication among Goemai people ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin 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: Goemai Description of subject: Goemai is a West Chadic language spoken primarily in central Nigeria by the Goemai people.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Guyohkohnyo
this entity surface form:
Gomai