Yala
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Yala is a language spoken by the Yala people of Cross River State in southeastern Nigeria.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yala canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2887191 — 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: Yala Context triple: [Cross River State, hasMajorLanguage, Yala]
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A.
Yala
Yala is a major city in Thailand’s deep south, known as an administrative, commercial, and cultural center near the Malaysian border.
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B.
Gela Sule
Gela Sule is a variant name for Nggela Sule, a locality associated with the Nggela (Florida) Islands in the Solomon Islands.
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C.
Tantu
Tantu is a Kannada novel by acclaimed Indian writer S. L. Bhyrappa, known for its exploration of complex social and philosophical themes.
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D.
Tarhuna
Tarhuna is a town in northwestern Libya, southeast of Tripoli, known for its strategic role and tribal influence during the Libyan civil conflicts.
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E.
Al Bayda
Al Bayda is a city in northeastern Libya that serves as one of the main urban centers of the Cyrenaica region.
- 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: Yala Target entity description: Yala is a language spoken by the Yala people of Cross River State in southeastern Nigeria.
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A.
Yala
Yala is a major city in Thailand’s deep south, known as an administrative, commercial, and cultural center near the Malaysian border.
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B.
Gela Sule
Gela Sule is a variant name for Nggela Sule, a locality associated with the Nggela (Florida) Islands in the Solomon Islands.
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C.
Tantu
Tantu is a Kannada novel by acclaimed Indian writer S. L. Bhyrappa, known for its exploration of complex social and philosophical themes.
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D.
Tarhuna
Tarhuna is a town in northwestern Libya, southeast of Tripoli, known for its strategic role and tribal influence during the Libyan civil conflicts.
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E.
Al Bayda
Al Bayda is a city in northeastern Libya that serves as one of the main urban centers of the Cyrenaica region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nigerian language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Yakurr
ⓘ
surface form:
Ikom-Yala
Ikom ⓘ
surface form:
Yala-Ikom
|
| hasContinent | Africa ⓘ |
| hasCountry | Nigeria ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Yala people ⓘ |
| hasGlottologCode | yala1261 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Yala self-link ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | yba ⓘ |
| hasLanguageFamily |
Benue–Congo languages
ⓘ
Cross-River languages ⓘ
surface form:
Cross River languages
Niger–Congo languages ⓘ
surface form:
Niger-Congo languages
|
| hasLanguageStatus | minority language in Nigeria ⓘ |
| hasMacroArea | Africa ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Cross River State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
| isSpokenAs | native language ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Yala people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Cross River State
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nigeria ⓘ southeastern Nigeria ⓘ |
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: Yala Description of subject: Yala is a language spoken by the Yala people of Cross River State in southeastern Nigeria.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.