Thao language
E138020
Thao language is an endangered Formosan language of central Taiwan, traditionally spoken by the Thao people around Sun Moon Lake.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tao language | 5 |
| Thao language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1204538 — 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: Thao language Context triple: [Formosan languages, majorSubgroupIncludes, Thao language]
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A.
Kaili language
The Kaili language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its multiple dialects and role as a regional lingua franca.
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B.
Saluan language
The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Achuar-Shiwiar language
The Achuar-Shiwiar language is a Jivaroan language spoken by the Achuar and Shiwiar Indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador and Peru.
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D.
Zhuang language
The Zhuang language is a Tai-Kadai language spoken primarily by the Zhuang ethnic group in Guangxi and surrounding regions of southern China.
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E.
Wintuan languages
Wintuan languages are a small family of Native American languages historically spoken in northern California, often grouped within the proposed Penutian phylum.
- 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: Thao language Target entity description: Thao language is an endangered Formosan language of central Taiwan, traditionally spoken by the Thao people around Sun Moon Lake.
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A.
Kaili language
The Kaili language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its multiple dialects and role as a regional lingua franca.
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B.
Saluan language
The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Achuar-Shiwiar language
The Achuar-Shiwiar language is a Jivaroan language spoken by the Achuar and Shiwiar Indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador and Peru.
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D.
Zhuang language
The Zhuang language is a Tai-Kadai language spoken primarily by the Zhuang ethnic group in Guangxi and surrounding regions of southern China.
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E.
Wintuan languages
Wintuan languages are a small family of Native American languages historically spoken in northern California, often grouped within the proposed Penutian phylum.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Formosan language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ |
| country | Republic of China ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Thao people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Sao
ⓘ
Thao ⓘ Thao/Sao ⓘ
linked to:
Thao
|
| hasBasicWordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ verb–initial ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| isDocumentedBy | linguistic fieldwork ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | ssf ⓘ |
| isPartOf | indigenous languages of Taiwan ⓘ |
| isRecognizedAs | indigenous language of Taiwan ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | language revitalization efforts ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | community-based programs ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | very few fluent speakers ⓘ |
| region | Nantou County ⓘ |
| spokenAround | Sun Moon Lake ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Taiwan
ⓘ
linked to:
Taiwan, Province of China
central Taiwan ⓘ |
| status | severely endangered ⓘ |
| subfamily | Formosan languages ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Thao tribe
ⓘ
linked to:
Thao people
|
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
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: Thao language Description of subject: Thao language is an endangered Formosan language of central Taiwan, traditionally spoken by the Thao people around Sun Moon Lake.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Thao language
linked to: Thao language
linked to: Thao language
linked to: Thao language
linked to: Thao language