Toma
E302230
Toma is a major Mande language spoken primarily in Guinea and neighboring West African countries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toma canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2811938 — 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: Toma Context triple: [Mande languages, hasMajorLanguage, Toma]
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A.
Tuyo
"Tuyo" is a bolero-style song by Rodrigo Amarante, best known as the haunting opening theme of the television series *Narcos*.
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B.
Nesta
Nesta is the middle name of legendary Jamaican reggae musician and cultural icon Bob Marley.
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C.
Tomis
Tomis was an ancient Greek and later Roman city on the Black Sea coast, in present-day Constanța, Romania, best known as the remote outpost where the poet Ovid was exiled by Emperor Augustus.
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D.
Empie
Empie is the middle name of Robert Empie Rogers, a 19th-century American civil engineer and educator.
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E.
Pasochoa
Pasochoa is an extinct volcanic mountain in Ecuador known for its lush cloud forests and rich biodiversity within a protected ecological reserve.
- 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: Toma Target entity description: Toma is a major Mande language spoken primarily in Guinea and neighboring West African countries.
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A.
Tuyo
"Tuyo" is a bolero-style song by Rodrigo Amarante, best known as the haunting opening theme of the television series *Narcos*.
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B.
Nesta
Nesta is the middle name of legendary Jamaican reggae musician and cultural icon Bob Marley.
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C.
Tomis
Tomis was an ancient Greek and later Roman city on the Black Sea coast, in present-day Constanța, Romania, best known as the remote outpost where the poet Ovid was exiled by Emperor Augustus.
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D.
Empie
Empie is the middle name of Robert Empie Rogers, a 19th-century American civil engineer and educator.
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E.
Pasochoa
Pasochoa is an extinct volcanic mountain in Ecuador known for its lush cloud forests and rich biodiversity within a protected ecological reserve.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mande language
ⓘ
language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| countryWithLargestNumberOfSpeakers | Guinea ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Loma people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Loghoma
ⓘ
Loma ⓘ Looma ⓘ |
| hasDialects | yes ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | loma1256 ⓘ |
| hasISO6391Code | (none) ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | lom ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
SOV word order (tendency)
ⓘ
agglutinative features ⓘ tone language ⓘ |
| hasStandardizedOrthography | yes ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Western Mande ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mande ⓘ |
| languageStatus | regional language ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Kissi
ⓘ
Kpelle ⓘ Maninka ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageOf |
Loma people of Guinea
ⓘ
Loma people of Guinea ⓘ
surface form:
Loma people of Liberia
|
| region | Forest region of Guinea ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Guinea
ⓘ
Liberia ⓘ Sierra Leone ⓘ West Africa ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Western Mande language ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday communication
ⓘ
local trade ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ |
| 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: Toma Description of subject: Toma is a major Mande language spoken primarily in Guinea and neighboring West African countries.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.