Khoe family
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The Khoe family is a group of closely related Khoisan languages spoken primarily by Khoe-speaking communities in southern Africa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Khoe family canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11469307 — 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: Khoe family Context triple: [Kxoe language, subfamilyOf, Khoe family]
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A.
Koo family
The Koo family is a prominent South Korean chaebol lineage best known for founding and controlling the LG Group conglomerate.
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B.
Chan family
The Chan family is the family of American pediatrician and philanthropist Priscilla Chan, known in part for its association with major charitable and educational initiatives.
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C.
Lin family
The Lin family is a Chinese lineage or clan to which Lin Gie-Ming belongs.
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D.
Jung family
The Jung family is the Swiss family of renowned psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung and his wife Emma Jung, noted for their influential role in the development of analytical psychology.
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E.
Gamgee family
The Gamgee family is a hobbit family from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, best known for Samwise Gamgee and his descendants.
- 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: Khoe family Target entity description: The Khoe family is a group of closely related Khoisan languages spoken primarily by Khoe-speaking communities in southern Africa.
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A.
Koo family
The Koo family is a prominent South Korean chaebol lineage best known for founding and controlling the LG Group conglomerate.
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B.
Chan family
The Chan family is the family of American pediatrician and philanthropist Priscilla Chan, known in part for its association with major charitable and educational initiatives.
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C.
Lin family
The Lin family is a Chinese lineage or clan to which Lin Gie-Ming belongs.
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D.
Jung family
The Jung family is the Swiss family of renowned psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung and his wife Emma Jung, noted for their influential role in the development of analytical psychology.
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E.
Gamgee family
The Gamgee family is a hobbit family from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, best known for Samwise Gamgee and his descendants.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Khoe–Kwadi languages
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language family ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
hunter-gatherer communities
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pastoralist communities ⓘ |
| characterizedBy | use of click consonants ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Central Khoisan
NERFINISHED
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Khoe languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Bokamoso language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Buga language NERFINISHED ⓘ Cire Cire language ⓘ Damara language NERFINISHED ⓘ Ganádi language NERFINISHED ⓘ Gǀanda language NERFINISHED ⓘ Gǀui language NERFINISHED ⓘ Gǁabake language NERFINISHED ⓘ Gǁana language NERFINISHED ⓘ Haiǁom language NERFINISHED ⓘ Khoekhoegowab NERFINISHED ⓘ Khwe language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kua language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kxoe language NERFINISHED ⓘ Nama language NERFINISHED ⓘ Naro language NERFINISHED ⓘ Nǀoha language NERFINISHED ⓘ Shua language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tshwa language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tsʼixa language NERFINISHED ⓘ ||Ani language ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup |
Kalahari Khoe
NERFINISHED
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Khoekhoe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageBranchOf | Khoe–Kwadi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Kalahari Desert
NERFINISHED
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Namib Desert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Damara people
NERFINISHED
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Gǀui people NERFINISHED ⓘ Gǁana people NERFINISHED ⓘ Khoe-speaking communities ⓘ Khoikhoi people NERFINISHED ⓘ Nama people NERFINISHED ⓘ Naro people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Angola
NERFINISHED
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Botswana NERFINISHED ⓘ Namibia NERFINISHED ⓘ South Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Khoisan languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southern African languages ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
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surface form:
Latin script
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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: Khoe family Description of subject: The Khoe family is a group of closely related Khoisan languages spoken primarily by Khoe-speaking communities in southern Africa.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.