Nepali
E23998
Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in Nepal and parts of India, serving as Nepal’s official language and a major lingua franca of the Himalayan region.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nepali canonical | 92 |
| Nepali language | 9 |
| Nepalese | 1 |
| Nepali (Gorkha) | 1 |
| Nepali language (lexicon) | 1 |
| Old Nepali | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T189368 — 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: Nepali Context triple: [Sanskrit, influenced, Nepali]
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A.
Maithili
Maithili is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the eastern Indian state of Bihar and neighboring regions, with a rich literary tradition and official recognition in India.
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B.
Hindi
Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language widely spoken across northern and central India and used in government, education, media, and popular culture.
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C.
Bengali
Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Bengal region of South Asia and serving as the official and most widely used language of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
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D.
Nepal
Nepal is a landlocked South Asian country in the Himalayas, known for Mount Everest, its rich cultural heritage, and its location between India and China.
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E.
Sindhi
Sindhi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in Pakistan and India, known for its rich literary tradition and distinct script variants.
- 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: Nepali Target entity description: Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in Nepal and parts of India, serving as Nepal’s official language and a major lingua franca of the Himalayan region.
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A.
Maithili
Maithili is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the eastern Indian state of Bihar and neighboring regions, with a rich literary tradition and official recognition in India.
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B.
Hindi
Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language widely spoken across northern and central India and used in government, education, media, and popular culture.
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C.
Bengali
Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Bengal region of South Asia and serving as the official and most widely used language of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
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D.
Nepal
Nepal is a landlocked South Asian country in the Himalayas, known for Mount Everest, its rich cultural heritage, and its location between India and China.
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E.
Sindhi
Sindhi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in Pakistan and India, known for its rich literary tradition and distinct script variants.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indo-Aryan language
ⓘ
language ⓘ modern Indo-Aryan language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Gurkha units
ⓘ
surface form:
Gorkhali
Khas Kura ⓘ Nepali ⓘ
surface form:
Nepalese
|
| closelyRelatedTo |
Hindi
ⓘ
Maithili ⓘ Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
surface form:
Pahari languages
|
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
SOV basic word order
ⓘ
ergative alignment in perfective aspect ⓘ honorific levels in pronouns and verbs ⓘ postpositions instead of prepositions ⓘ |
| hasNotableAuthor |
Bhanubhakta Acharya
ⓘ
Laxmi Prasad Devkota ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive aspiration in stops
ⓘ
three-way vowel length distinction in some dialects ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Devanagari script
ⓘ
surface form:
Devanagari alphabet
|
| ISO639-1Code | ne ⓘ |
| ISO639-2Code | nep ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | npi ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-Aryan languages
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| linguaFrancaOf | Himalayan region ⓘ |
| officialLanguageOf | Nepal ⓘ |
| officialStatus |
federal official language of Nepal
ⓘ
one of the 22 scheduled languages of India ⓘ |
| primaryRegion |
Assam
ⓘ
surface form:
Assam, India
Bhutan ⓘ Brunei Darussalam ⓘ
surface form:
Brunei
Darjeeling region of West Bengal, India ⓘ Indian state of Sikkim ⓘ Myanmar ⓘ Nepal ⓘ worldwide Nepali diaspora communities ⓘ |
| recognizedLanguageIn |
Bhutan
ⓘ
India ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| standardFormBasedIn | Kathmandu Valley ⓘ |
| standardRegulatingBody | Nepal Academy ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Indo-Aryan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Pahari languages
Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
surface form:
Pahari languages
|
| usedAs |
language of government in Nepal
ⓘ
language of national media in Nepal ⓘ medium of instruction in Nepalese schools ⓘ |
| usedInLiterature | modern Nepali literature ⓘ |
| usedInScripture | Hindu religious texts in Nepal ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Devanagari script ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | abugida ⓘ |
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: Nepali Description of subject: Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in Nepal and parts of India, serving as Nepal’s official language and a major lingua franca of the Himalayan region.
Referenced by (105)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Solukhumbu District
this entity surface form:
Nepali language
this entity surface form:
Nepali language
this entity surface form:
Nepali language
subject surface form:
Janakpur
this entity surface form:
Nepali language
this entity surface form:
Nepali language
this entity surface form:
Nepali language
subject surface form:
Federal Parliament of Nepal