Madi of Uganda
E904341
Madi of Uganda is a regional variety of the Madi language spoken by Madi communities in northern Uganda.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madi of South Sudan | 1 |
| Madi of Uganda canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11093654 — 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: Madi of Uganda Context triple: [Madi language, hasDialect, Madi of Uganda]
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A.
Oginga
Oginga is the given name of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, a prominent Kenyan independence leader and the country’s first vice president.
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B.
Rutooro
Rutooro is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Tooro people in western Uganda.
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C.
Masisi
Masisi is a town in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, situated in the conflict-affected, mineral-rich highlands of North Kivu Province.
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D.
Chembong
Chembong is a state constituency in the Rembau District of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, represented in the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly.
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E.
Luba
Luba is a coastal town and important port on the southern part of Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea.
- 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: Madi of Uganda Target entity description: Madi of Uganda is a regional variety of the Madi language spoken by Madi communities in northern Uganda.
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A.
Oginga
Oginga is the given name of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, a prominent Kenyan independence leader and the country’s first vice president.
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B.
Rutooro
Rutooro is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Tooro people in western Uganda.
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C.
Masisi
Masisi is a town in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, situated in the conflict-affected, mineral-rich highlands of North Kivu Province.
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D.
Chembong
Chembong is a state constituency in the Rembau District of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, represented in the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly.
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E.
Luba
Luba is a coastal town and important port on the southern part of Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
language variety
ⓘ
regional dialect ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Madi of South Sudan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Uganda ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupAssociated | Madi people of Uganda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Madi (Uganda variety)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ugandan Madi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialects | local village varieties ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3CodeOfParentLanguage | mad ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
consonant length contrasts
ⓘ
contrastive vowel length ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalFeature |
SVO basic word order
ⓘ
tone language ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Central Sudanic languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nilo-Saharan languages ⓘ |
| minorityLanguageIn | Uganda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Madi linguistic continuum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | West Nile sub-region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionallyInfluencedBy | neighboring Nilotic and Central Sudanic languages ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Madi people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Uganda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion | Northern Uganda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Madi language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
English in Uganda
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Juba Arabic (in cross-border contexts) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday communication
ⓘ
local cultural practices ⓘ 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
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Input
Subject: Madi of Uganda Description of subject: Madi of Uganda is a regional variety of the Madi language spoken by Madi communities in northern Uganda.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Madi of South Sudan