Proto-Philippine language
E143041
Proto-Philippine is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Philippine branch of the Austronesian language family, from which many modern Philippine languages are derived.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Proto-Philippine language canonical | 14 |
| Proto-Philippine | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1243122 — 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: Proto-Philippine language Context triple: [Southern Luzon languages, hasAncestor, Proto-Philippine language]
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A.
Philippine–Cordilleran languages
The Philippine–Cordilleran languages are a major subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in the northern Philippines, encompassing numerous indigenous languages of the Cordillera region and surrounding areas.
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B.
Proto-Austronesian
Proto-Austronesian is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Austronesian language family, from which languages such as Javanese, Tagalog, and Malay are derived.
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C.
Proto-Oceanic language
The Proto-Oceanic language is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family, from which many Pacific languages ultimately developed.
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D.
Austronesian languages
Austronesian languages are a large and widely dispersed language family spoken across maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the Pacific Islands, and parts of mainland Asia.
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E.
Philippine languages
Philippine languages are a major branch of the Austronesian language family spoken throughout the Philippines, encompassing numerous related languages such as Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, and Bikol.
- 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: Proto-Philippine language Target entity description: Proto-Philippine is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Philippine branch of the Austronesian language family, from which many modern Philippine languages are derived.
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A.
Philippine–Cordilleran languages
The Philippine–Cordilleran languages are a major subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in the northern Philippines, encompassing numerous indigenous languages of the Cordillera region and surrounding areas.
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B.
Proto-Austronesian
Proto-Austronesian is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Austronesian language family, from which languages such as Javanese, Tagalog, and Malay are derived.
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C.
Proto-Oceanic language
The Proto-Oceanic language is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family, from which many Pacific languages ultimately developed.
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D.
Austronesian languages
Austronesian languages are a large and widely dispersed language family spoken across maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the Pacific Islands, and parts of mainland Asia.
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E.
Philippine languages
Philippine languages are a major branch of the Austronesian language family spoken throughout the Philippines, encompassing numerous related languages such as Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, and Bikol.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Proto-Philippine language Description of subject: Proto-Philippine is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Philippine branch of the Austronesian language family, from which many modern Philippine languages are derived.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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