Mossi language
E267636
The Mossi language is a major Gur language spoken primarily in Burkina Faso, serving as a key lingua franca and the mother tongue of the Mossi people.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mossi language canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2446253 — 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: Mossi language Context triple: [Gur languages, hasMemberLanguage, Mossi language]
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A.
Murle language
The Murle language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Murle people of South Sudan.
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B.
Tontemboan language
The Tontemboan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tontemboan people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is one of the traditional Minahasan languages of the region.
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C.
Moxo language
The Moxo language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Moxo (Mojo) people of Bolivia’s lowland regions.
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D.
Nupe language
The Nupe language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Nupe people in central Nigeria, especially in the Middle Belt region.
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E.
Muna language
The Muna language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Muna Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its rich verbal morphology and distinct phonological system.
- 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: Mossi language Target entity description: The Mossi language is a major Gur language spoken primarily in Burkina Faso, serving as a key lingua franca and the mother tongue of the Mossi people.
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A.
Murle language
The Murle language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Murle people of South Sudan.
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B.
Tontemboan language
The Tontemboan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tontemboan people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is one of the traditional Minahasan languages of the region.
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C.
Moxo language
The Moxo language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Moxo (Mojo) people of Bolivia’s lowland regions.
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D.
Nupe language
The Nupe language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Nupe people in central Nigeria, especially in the Middle Belt region.
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E.
Muna language
The Muna language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Muna Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its rich verbal morphology and distinct phonological system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gur language
ⓘ
language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Mooré
ⓘ
Mooré ⓘ
surface form:
Moré
Mòoré ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Dagbani language
ⓘ
Frafra language ⓘ Mampruli language ⓘ |
| countryWithLargestSpeakers | Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mossi people ⓘ |
| glottocode | moor1254 ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Kaya Mossi
ⓘ
Ouagadougou ⓘ
surface form:
Ouagadougou Mossi
Yatenga Mossi ⓘ Zondoma Mossi ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
ATR vowel harmony
ⓘ
two-level tone system ⓘ |
| ISO639-1Code | none ⓘ |
| ISO639-2Code | mos ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | mos ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Gur languages ⓘ |
| linguaFrancaIn | Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| majorCityWhereSpoken |
Kaya
ⓘ
Koudougou ⓘ Ouagadougou ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers |
over 10 million
ⓘ
over 7 million ⓘ |
| officialStatus | national language of Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| primaryRegion |
Ouagadougou region
ⓘ
central Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Burkina Faso
ⓘ
Côte d'Ivoire ⓘ
surface form:
Côte d’Ivoire
Ghana ⓘ Mali ⓘ Togo ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Northern Gur
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Gur languages
Oti–Volta languages ⓘ Oti–Volta languages ⓘ
surface form:
Western Oti–Volta languages
|
| tonalLanguage | true ⓘ |
| usedAsSecondLanguageBy | many non-Mossi ethnic groups in Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local administration in Burkina Faso
ⓘ
primary education in Burkina Faso ⓘ radio broadcasting in Burkina Faso ⓘ religious practice in Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| 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: Mossi language Description of subject: The Mossi language is a major Gur language spoken primarily in Burkina Faso, serving as a key lingua franca and the mother tongue of the Mossi people.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.