Lokoya language
E946860
The Lokoya language is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Lokoya people of South Sudan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lokoya language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11792166 — 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: Lokoya language Context triple: [East Central Sudanic languages, hasMember, Lokoya language]
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A.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
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B.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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C.
Lobi language
The Lobi language is a Gur language spoken primarily by the Lobi people in parts of Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana.
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D.
Lamaholot language
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
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E.
Laka language
Laka language is a lesser-known Adamawa–Ubangi language spoken in parts of Central Africa, particularly in Chad and neighboring regions.
- 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: Lokoya language Target entity description: The Lokoya language is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Lokoya people of South Sudan.
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A.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
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B.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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C.
Lobi language
The Lobi language is a Gur language spoken primarily by the Lobi people in parts of Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana.
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D.
Lamaholot language
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
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E.
Laka language
Laka language is a lesser-known Adamawa–Ubangi language spoken in parts of Central Africa, particularly in Chad and neighboring regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eastern Nilotic language
ⓘ
Nilo-Saharan language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | South Sudan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Lokoya people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottologName | Lokoya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Lokoiya
ⓘ
Ocolia NERFINISHED ⓘ Okoia NERFINISHED ⓘ Okoja NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBasicWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| hasEthnologueEntry | Ethnologue: Lokoya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | loko1265 ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
tone language
ⓘ
vowel length contrast ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
| ISO639-3 | lky ⓘ |
| isSpokenInHills |
Imatong Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lulubo Hills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSpokenNear | Juba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Nilo-Saharan languages ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Lokoya-related Eastern Nilotic languages
ⓘ
Lotuko language NERFINISHED ⓘ Lulubo language NERFINISHED ⓘ Otuho language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Equatoria region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| riskStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Lokoya people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn | South Sudan ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Eastern Nilotic languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nilotic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
English in South Sudan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Juba Arabic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication within Lokoya communities
ⓘ
traditional cultural practices ⓘ |
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: Lokoya language Description of subject: The Lokoya language is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Lokoya people of South Sudan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.