Multani
E77870
Multani is a major dialect of the Saraiki language spoken primarily in the Multan region of Pakistan.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Multani canonical | 3 |
| Multani (Saraiki) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T623382 — 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: Multani Context triple: [Saraiki, hasDialects, Multani]
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A.
Pakhto
Pakhto is an alternative name for Pashto, an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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B.
Gujranwala
Gujranwala is a major industrial city in Pakistan’s Punjab province, known for its manufacturing base and historical significance in the region.
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C.
Kathiawari
Kathiawari is a regional dialect of Gujarati spoken primarily in the Saurashtra (Kathiawar) peninsula of western India, known for its distinct phonetic and lexical features.
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D.
Raza Sahib
Raza Sahib was an 18th-century military leader in southern India who commanded forces during the Siege of Arcot in the Carnatic Wars.
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E.
Marwari
Marwari is an Indo-Aryan language of western India, primarily spoken in Rajasthan and surrounding regions, and closely related to Gujarati and other Rajasthani dialects.
- 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: Multani Target entity description: Multani is a major dialect of the Saraiki language spoken primarily in the Multan region of Pakistan.
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A.
Pakhto
Pakhto is an alternative name for Pashto, an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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B.
Gujranwala
Gujranwala is a major industrial city in Pakistan’s Punjab province, known for its manufacturing base and historical significance in the region.
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C.
Kathiawari
Kathiawari is a regional dialect of Gujarati spoken primarily in the Saurashtra (Kathiawar) peninsula of western India, known for its distinct phonetic and lexical features.
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D.
Raza Sahib
Raza Sahib was an 18th-century military leader in southern India who commanded forces during the Siege of Arcot in the Carnatic Wars.
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E.
Marwari
Marwari is an Indo-Aryan language of western India, primarily spoken in Rajasthan and surrounding regions, and closely related to Gujarati and other Rajasthani dialects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Saraiki dialect
ⓘ
dialect ⓘ |
| classificationStatus | considered a dialect of Saraiki by most linguists ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Bahawalpuri dialect
ⓘ
Derawali dialect ⓘ Riasati dialect ⓘ |
| country | Pakistan ⓘ |
| geographicCenter |
Multan
ⓘ
surface form:
city of Multan
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Saraiki
ⓘ
surface form:
Multani Saraiki
Multani dialect ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
retroflex consonants
ⓘ
shares vocabulary with Punjabi ⓘ shares vocabulary with Sindhi ⓘ tonal contrasts similar to Punjabi ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Punjabi language
ⓘ
Sindhi ⓘ
surface form:
Sindhi language
Urdu language ⓘ |
| ISO639Status | covered by Saraiki [skr] ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-Aryan languages
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| lexicalSimilarityWith |
Punjabi language
ⓘ
surface form:
Punjabi
Sindhi ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Multan ⓘ |
| partOf |
Saraiki
ⓘ
surface form:
Saraiki dialect continuum
|
| phonologicalFeature | vowel length distinctions ⓘ |
| primaryRegion |
Multan
ⓘ
Multan Division ⓘ |
| regionType |
Punjab
ⓘ
surface form:
Southwestern Punjab
|
| scriptDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| sociolinguisticStatus | regional dialect in Pakistan ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Saraiki people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Balochistan, Pakistan
ⓘ
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ⓘ
surface form:
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Punjab, Pakistan ⓘ Sindh ⓘ
surface form:
Sindh, Pakistan
southern Punjab, Pakistan ⓘ
surface form:
South Punjab
|
| subdivisionOf |
Saraiki
ⓘ
surface form:
Saraiki language
|
| usedBy |
rural population of Multan region
ⓘ
urban population of Multan region ⓘ |
| usedIn |
folk poetry
ⓘ
local media ⓘ oral communication ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Arabic script
ⓘ
Perso-Arabic script ⓘ Shahmukhi 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: Multani Description of subject: Multani is a major dialect of the Saraiki language spoken primarily in the Multan region of Pakistan.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Multani (Saraiki)