Northern Kurdish
E744313
Northern Kurdish is a major dialect group of the Kurdish language, spoken primarily in southeastern Turkey, northern Syria, northern Iraq, and parts of Iran.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Northern Kurdish canonical | 5 |
| Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8582751 — 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: Northern Kurdish Context triple: [Badînî, partOf, Northern Kurdish]
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A.
Southern Kurdish
Southern Kurdish is a major variety of the Kurdish language spoken primarily in parts of western Iran and eastern Iraq, distinguished by its own phonological and lexical features.
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B.
Central Kurdish (Sorani)
Central Kurdish (Sorani) is a major standardized variety of the Kurdish language, widely spoken in parts of Iraq and Iran and used in education, media, and official contexts.
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C.
Kurdish language
The Kurdish language is an Indo-Iranian language spoken by Kurds across parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and neighboring regions, with several major dialects and multiple writing systems.
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D.
Kirkuk dialect
The Kirkuk dialect is a regional variety of Central Kurdish (Sorani) spoken in and around the city of Kirkuk, distinguished by its unique phonological and lexical features.
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E.
Alqosh dialect
The Alqosh dialect is a regional variety of Chaldean Neo-Aramaic traditionally spoken in and around the town of Alqosh in northern Iraq.
- 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: Northern Kurdish Target entity description: Northern Kurdish is a major dialect group of the Kurdish language, spoken primarily in southeastern Turkey, northern Syria, northern Iraq, and parts of Iran.
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A.
Southern Kurdish
Southern Kurdish is a major variety of the Kurdish language spoken primarily in parts of western Iran and eastern Iraq, distinguished by its own phonological and lexical features.
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B.
Central Kurdish (Sorani)
Central Kurdish (Sorani) is a major standardized variety of the Kurdish language, widely spoken in parts of Iraq and Iran and used in education, media, and official contexts.
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C.
Kurdish language
The Kurdish language is an Indo-Iranian language spoken by Kurds across parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and neighboring regions, with several major dialects and multiple writing systems.
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D.
Kirkuk dialect
The Kirkuk dialect is a regional variety of Central Kurdish (Sorani) spoken in and around the city of Kirkuk, distinguished by its unique phonological and lexical features.
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E.
Alqosh dialect
The Alqosh dialect is a regional variety of Chaldean Neo-Aramaic traditionally spoken in and around the town of Alqosh in northern Iraq.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian language variety
ⓘ
Kurdish dialect ⓘ Western Iranian language variety ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Kurmanji
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kurmanji Kurdish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| approximateSpeakers | more than 15 million ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Central Kurdish
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southern Kurdish NERFINISHED ⓘ Zazaki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottocode | nort2641 ⓘ |
| hasCases | true ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Central Kurmanji
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northern Kurmanji NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Kurmanji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalGender | true ⓘ |
| hasLatinAlphabetStandard | Hawar alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Arabic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Persian NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkish ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | kmr ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| majorDialectOf | Kurdish ⓘ |
| partOf | Kurdish language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryCountry |
Iran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedMinorityLanguageIn |
Syria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Turkey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Caucasus
ⓘ
diaspora communities in Europe ⓘ northern Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Syria ⓘ northwestern Iran ⓘ southeastern Turkey ⓘ |
| scriptUsage |
Arabic-based script in Iraq and Iran
ⓘ
Latin script in Turkey and Syria ⓘ |
| SOVWordOrder | true ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Kurds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standardVarietyIn |
Syria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Turkey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Northwestern Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInMedia | Kurdish satellite television ⓘ |
| usedInReligion | Yazidi religious texts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesErgativeAlignment | partially ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Arabic script
ⓘ
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: Northern Kurdish Description of subject: Northern Kurdish is a major dialect group of the Kurdish language, spoken primarily in southeastern Turkey, northern Syria, northern Iraq, and parts of Iran.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji)