Donno So
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Donno So is a Dogon language spoken in Mali, known for its distinctive tonal system and complex noun classification.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Donno So canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11578440 — 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: Donno So Context triple: [Dogon languages, hasSubgroup, Donno So]
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A.
Gono
Gono is a Zimbabwean surname most notably borne by Gideon Gono, the former governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
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B.
Sooley
Sooley is a novel by John Grisham that follows a young South Sudanese basketball player whose extraordinary talent offers a path out of war-torn hardship.
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C.
Donen
Donen is a surname most famously associated with Stanley Donen, the American film director and choreographer known for classic Hollywood musicals such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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D.
Dona
Dona is the nickname of Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, the last German Empress and Queen of Prussia as the wife of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
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E.
Dondaicha
Dondaicha is a town in the Dhule district of Maharashtra, India, known regionally as a local commercial and agricultural center.
- 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: Donno So Target entity description: Donno So is a Dogon language spoken in Mali, known for its distinctive tonal system and complex noun classification.
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A.
Gono
Gono is a Zimbabwean surname most notably borne by Gideon Gono, the former governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
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B.
Sooley
Sooley is a novel by John Grisham that follows a young South Sudanese basketball player whose extraordinary talent offers a path out of war-torn hardship.
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C.
Donen
Donen is a surname most famously associated with Stanley Donen, the American film director and choreographer known for classic Hollywood musicals such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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D.
Dona
Dona is the nickname of Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, the last German Empress and Queen of Prussia as the wife of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
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E.
Dondaicha
Dondaicha is a town in the Dhule district of Maharashtra, India, known regionally as a local commercial and agricultural center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dogon language
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language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Donno
NERFINISHED
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Donno Dogon ⓘ Donno So Dogon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Mali ⓘ |
| endangerment | potentially vulnerable or endangered (like many Dogon varieties) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Dogon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
SOV basic word order (subject–object–verb)
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complex noun classification ⓘ distinctive tonal system ⓘ grammatical gender-like system ⓘ noun classes ⓘ rich morphology ⓘ tonal language ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResearch |
described in typological studies of Dogon languages
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documented in phonological and grammatical descriptions ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | dds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Dogon
NERFINISHED
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Niger-Congo language family (often treated as an isolate or uncertain within Niger-Congo) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bandiagara region (Dogon Plateau area)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
central Mali ⓘ |
| partOf | Dogon language cluster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Dogon people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Mali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | minority language in Mali ⓘ |
| tonalSystem |
grammatical tone distinctions
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lexical tone contrasts ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script (for linguistic description) ⓘ |
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: Donno So Description of subject: Donno So is a Dogon language spoken in Mali, known for its distinctive tonal system and complex noun classification.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.