Manipuri
E237117
Manipuri is a Tibeto-Burman language of Northeast India, primarily associated with the Meitei people of Manipur and recognized as one of India’s scheduled languages.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Manipuri canonical | 8 |
| Manipuri language | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2136365 — 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: Manipuri Context triple: [Barak Valley, languageSpoken, Manipuri]
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A.
Bodo
Bodo is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily by the Bodo people in northeastern India, especially in Assam and surrounding regions.
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B.
Mundari
Mundari is an Austroasiatic Munda language of eastern India, spoken primarily by the Munda people in states such as Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal.
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C.
Kolami
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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D.
Dholuo
Dholuo is a Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Luo people of western Kenya and parts of Tanzania.
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E.
Manipur
Manipur is a northeastern Indian state known for its scenic hills and valleys, rich indigenous cultures, and capital city Imphal.
- 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: Manipuri Target entity description: Manipuri is a Tibeto-Burman language of Northeast India, primarily associated with the Meitei people of Manipur and recognized as one of India’s scheduled languages.
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A.
Bodo
Bodo is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily by the Bodo people in northeastern India, especially in Assam and surrounding regions.
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B.
Mundari
Mundari is an Austroasiatic Munda language of eastern India, spoken primarily by the Munda people in states such as Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal.
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C.
Kolami
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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D.
Dholuo
Dholuo is a Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Luo people of western Kenya and parts of Tanzania.
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E.
Manipur
Manipur is a northeastern Indian state known for its scenic hills and valleys, rich indigenous cultures, and capital city Imphal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tibeto-Burman language
ⓘ
language ⓘ scheduled language of India ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Meitei language
ⓘ
surface form:
Meitei Lon
Meitei language ⓘ Meitei language ⓘ
surface form:
Meiteilon
|
| associatedReligion |
Hinduism
ⓘ
surface form:
Hinduism (Vaishnavism)
Sanamahism ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Indo-Burma linguistic area ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| glottocode | mani1292 ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Sahitya Akademi
ⓘ
surface form:
Sahitya Akademi (for literary recognition)
|
| hasDialects |
Andro dialect
ⓘ
Chairel dialect ⓘ Imphal dialect ⓘ Kakching dialect ⓘ |
| hasLanguageAcademy | Manipuri Sahitya Parishad ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryTradition | yes ⓘ |
| hasNativeName |
Meitei language
ⓘ
surface form:
Meiteilon
ꯃꯩꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
tone
ⓘ
vowel harmony (limited) ⓘ |
| hasReligiousLiterature | Vaishnavite texts ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Eastern Nagari script
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Nagari alphabet
Meitei Mayek script ⓘ
surface form:
Meitei Mayek alphabet
|
| ISO639-1Code | none ⓘ |
| ISO639-2Code | mni ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | mni ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Tibeto-Burman ⓘ |
| linguisticType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| literaryScript |
Meitei Mayek script
ⓘ
surface form:
Meitei Mayek
|
| officialStatusIn | Manipur ⓘ |
| primaryEthnicGroup | Meitei people ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | scheduled language under the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India ⓘ |
| region | Northeast India ⓘ |
| script |
Bengali script
ⓘ
Meitei Mayek script ⓘ
surface form:
Meitei Mayek
|
| spokenIn |
Assam
ⓘ
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ
surface form:
Bangladesh
Manipur ⓘ Myanmar ⓘ Nagaland ⓘ Tripura ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Sino-Tibetan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Sino-Tibetan language family
|
| usedAs | lingua franca in Manipur ⓘ |
| usedIn |
administration in Manipur
ⓘ
education in Manipur ⓘ media in Manipur ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
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: Manipuri Description of subject: Manipuri is a Tibeto-Burman language of Northeast India, primarily associated with the Meitei people of Manipur and recognized as one of India’s scheduled languages.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Manipuri language
this entity surface form:
Manipuri language