Central Gur
E916942
Central Gur is a subgroup of the Gur branch of the Niger-Congo language family, comprising closely related languages spoken primarily in parts of West Africa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Central Gur canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11302813 — 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: Central Gur Context triple: [Dagbani language, subbranch, Central Gur]
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A.
Madhya zone
Madhya zone is a major subgroup of the Indo-Aryan language family that includes several central Indo-Aryan languages spoken primarily in northern and central India.
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B.
Madhya Bharat
Madhya Bharat was a former Indian state formed after independence by merging several princely states in central India, later incorporated into the modern state of Madhya Pradesh.
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C.
Central India
Central India is a region of the Indian subcontinent encompassing parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh and surrounding areas, historically significant as a major theater of uprisings and princely states, including during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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D.
Ganjam region
Ganjam region is a culturally rich area in the Indian state of Odisha, known for its distinctive Ganjami Odia dialect and vibrant coastal traditions.
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E.
Purvanchal
Purvanchal is the eastern cultural and geographic region of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, known for its Bhojpuri-speaking population and rich folk traditions.
- 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: Central Gur Target entity description: Central Gur is a subgroup of the Gur branch of the Niger-Congo language family, comprising closely related languages spoken primarily in parts of West Africa.
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A.
Madhya zone
Madhya zone is a major subgroup of the Indo-Aryan language family that includes several central Indo-Aryan languages spoken primarily in northern and central India.
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B.
Madhya Bharat
Madhya Bharat was a former Indian state formed after independence by merging several princely states in central India, later incorporated into the modern state of Madhya Pradesh.
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C.
Central India
Central India is a region of the Indian subcontinent encompassing parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh and surrounding areas, historically significant as a major theater of uprisings and princely states, including during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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D.
Ganjam region
Ganjam region is a culturally rich area in the Indian state of Odisha, known for its distinctive Ganjami Odia dialect and vibrant coastal traditions.
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E.
Purvanchal
Purvanchal is the eastern cultural and geographic region of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, known for its Bhojpuri-speaking population and rich folk traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gur language subgroup
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language subgroup ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Atlantic–Congo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | Gur ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
closely related member languages
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primarily spoken in savanna zone of West Africa ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Buli language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dagaare language NERFINISHED ⓘ Dagbani language NERFINISHED ⓘ Farefare language NERFINISHED ⓘ Frafra language NERFINISHED ⓘ Gurenɛ language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kassena language NERFINISHED ⓘ Konkomba language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kusaal language NERFINISHED ⓘ Mampruli language NERFINISHED ⓘ Moore language NERFINISHED ⓘ Mossi language NERFINISHED ⓘ Nankani language NERFINISHED ⓘ Nawdm language NERFINISHED ⓘ Safaliba language NERFINISHED ⓘ Talni language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Niger–Congo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorLanguage |
Dagaare language
NERFINISHED
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Dagbani language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kusaal language ⓘ Mossi language ⓘ |
| partOf |
Gur branch
ⓘ
Niger–Congo language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Benin
NERFINISHED
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Burkina Faso NERFINISHED ⓘ Ghana ⓘ Ivory Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ Mali NERFINISHED ⓘ Togo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Gur languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
mostly SVO word order
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tone languages ⓘ |
| usedFor |
interethnic communication in parts of Burkina Faso
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interethnic communication in parts of northern Ghana ⓘ |
| writingSystemsUsed | 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: Central Gur Description of subject: Central Gur is a subgroup of the Gur branch of the Niger-Congo language family, comprising closely related languages spoken primarily in parts of West Africa.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.