Indo-Iranian languages
E25632
Indo-Iranian languages are a major branch of the Indo-European language family that includes numerous related languages spoken across Iran, Afghanistan, the Indian subcontinent, and surrounding regions.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Indo-Iranian languages canonical | 322 |
| Indo-Iranian | 29 |
| Indo-Iranian branch | 3 |
| Indo-Iranian language branch | 1 |
| Indo-Iranian language family | 1 |
| Indo-Iranian language group | 1 |
| Indo-Iranian linguistics | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T176578 — 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: Indo-Iranian languages Context triple: [Persian language, languageFamily, Indo-Iranian languages]
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A.
Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-Aryan languages are a major branch of the Indo-European family spoken primarily in the Indian subcontinent, including languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, and Marathi.
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B.
Dravidian languages
Dravidian languages are a family of languages primarily spoken in South India and parts of Sri Lanka, including major languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam.
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C.
Indo-European language family
The Indo-European language family is a major global language group that includes many of the world’s most widely spoken languages across Europe and large parts of Asia.
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D.
Balto-Slavic languages
The Balto-Slavic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family that includes the Baltic and Slavic languages, such as Russian, Polish, and Lithuanian.
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E.
Indo-Europeans
Indo-Europeans were a Eurasian people speaking Indo-European languages whose migrations and cultural expansions gave rise to many of the major linguistic and ethnic groups across Europe and parts of Asia.
- 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: Indo-Iranian languages Target entity description: Indo-Iranian languages are a major branch of the Indo-European language family that includes numerous related languages spoken across Iran, Afghanistan, the Indian subcontinent, and surrounding regions.
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A.
Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-Aryan languages are a major branch of the Indo-European family spoken primarily in the Indian subcontinent, including languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, and Marathi.
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B.
Dravidian languages
Dravidian languages are a family of languages primarily spoken in South India and parts of Sri Lanka, including major languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam.
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C.
Indo-European language family
The Indo-European language family is a major global language group that includes many of the world’s most widely spoken languages across Europe and large parts of Asia.
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D.
Balto-Slavic languages
The Balto-Slavic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family that includes the Baltic and Slavic languages, such as Russian, Polish, and Lithuanian.
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E.
Indo-Europeans
Indo-Europeans were a Eurasian people speaking Indo-European languages whose migrations and cultural expansions gave rise to many of the major linguistic and ethnic groups across Europe and parts of Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (72)
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: Indo-Iranian languages Description of subject: Indo-Iranian languages are a major branch of the Indo-European language family that includes numerous related languages spoken across Iran, Afghanistan, the Indian subcontinent, and surrounding regions.
Referenced by (358)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Indo-Iranian
this entity surface form:
Indo-Iranian
this entity surface form:
Indo-Iranian
subject surface form:
D. L. R. Lorimer
this entity surface form:
Indo-Iranian
this entity surface form:
Indo-Iranian