Kirmanjki
E837223
Kirmanjki is a Northwestern Iranian language variety, often considered a dialect of Zaza (Dimlî), spoken primarily by Kurdish communities in eastern Turkey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kirmanjki canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10039079 — 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: Kirmanjki Context triple: [Dimlî, hasAlternativeName, Kirmanjki]
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A.
Kocani
Kocani is a town in eastern North Macedonia known for its rice production and geothermal springs.
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B.
Karpniki
Karpniki is a village in southwestern Poland known for its historic palace complex and scenic location at the foot of the Karkonosze Mountains.
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C.
Loznica
Loznica is a town in western Serbia near the Drina River, known as a regional center with historical and cultural significance.
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D.
Kamenitsa
Kamenitsa is a prominent mountain peak in Bulgaria’s Pirin range, known for its rugged alpine terrain and scenic hiking routes.
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E.
Kapesovo
Kapesovo is a traditional stone-built village in the Zagori region of Epirus, Greece, known for its preserved architecture and scenic mountainous setting.
- 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: Kirmanjki Target entity description: Kirmanjki is a Northwestern Iranian language variety, often considered a dialect of Zaza (Dimlî), spoken primarily by Kurdish communities in eastern Turkey.
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A.
Kocani
Kocani is a town in eastern North Macedonia known for its rice production and geothermal springs.
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B.
Karpniki
Karpniki is a village in southwestern Poland known for its historic palace complex and scenic location at the foot of the Karkonosze Mountains.
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C.
Loznica
Loznica is a town in western Serbia near the Drina River, known as a regional center with historical and cultural significance.
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D.
Kamenitsa
Kamenitsa is a prominent mountain peak in Bulgaria’s Pirin range, known for its rugged alpine terrain and scenic hiking routes.
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E.
Kapesovo
Kapesovo is a traditional stone-built village in the Zagori region of Epirus, Greece, known for its preserved architecture and scenic mountainous setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian language
ⓘ
Northwestern Iranian language variety ⓘ Zaza–Gorani language ⓘ dialect ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Southern Zazaki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distinctFrom |
Kurmanji
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sorani NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| glottocode | kirm1242 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Kırdki
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kırmancki NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Zazaki NERFINISHED ⓘ Zazakî (Northern variety) ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Northern Kirmanjki
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southern Kirmanjki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom |
Arabic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kurdish ⓘ Persian NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkish ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
ergative alignment
ⓘ
split-ergativity ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | vowel harmony absence ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature | SOV word order ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | kiu ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian ⓘ |
| linguisticClassificationDebatedBy |
Iranian linguists
ⓘ
Kurdologists ⓘ |
| partOf | Western Zaza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedAsMinorityLanguageIn | Turkey (de facto, limited contexts) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Bingöl Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elazığ Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Erzincan Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Sivas Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Tunceli Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Kurdish communities
ⓘ
Zaza Kurds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Turkey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenPrimarilyIn | eastern Turkey ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Dimlî
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Zaza language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedByReligiousCommunity | Alevi Kurds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn |
folk music
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ religious poetry ⓘ |
| 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: Kirmanjki Description of subject: Kirmanjki is a Northwestern Iranian language variety, often considered a dialect of Zaza (Dimlî), spoken primarily by Kurdish communities in eastern Turkey.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.