Selaru language
E148731
The Selaru language is an Austronesian language spoken on Selaru Island in Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands, known for its place within the Central Malayo-Polynesian subgroup.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Selaru language canonical | 9 |
| Bahasa Selaru | 1 |
| Selaru languages | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1302659 — 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: Selaru language Context triple: [Central Malayo-Polynesian languages, hasMember, Selaru language]
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A.
Saluan language
The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Luri language
Luri language is a Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Lur people in western and southwestern Iran.
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C.
Refaluwasch language
The Refaluwasch language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Carolinian people of the Northern Mariana Islands, particularly on Saipan and nearby islands.
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D.
Fala language
Fala is a small Ibero-Romance language spoken in a few villages in Spain’s Extremadura region, notable for its close relation to Galician-Portuguese and its strong local identity.
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E.
Esselen language
The Esselen language is an extinct and poorly documented Native American language once spoken by the Esselen people of coastal central California.
- 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: Selaru language Target entity description: The Selaru language is an Austronesian language spoken on Selaru Island in Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands, known for its place within the Central Malayo-Polynesian subgroup.
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A.
Saluan language
The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Luri language
Luri language is a Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Lur people in western and southwestern Iran.
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C.
Refaluwasch language
The Refaluwasch language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Carolinian people of the Northern Mariana Islands, particularly on Saipan and nearby islands.
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D.
Fala language
Fala is a small Ibero-Romance language spoken in a few villages in Spain’s Extremadura region, notable for its close relation to Galician-Portuguese and its strong local identity.
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E.
Esselen language
The Esselen language is an extinct and poorly documented Native American language once spoken by the Esselen people of coastal central California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: Selaru language Description of subject: The Selaru language is an Austronesian language spoken on Selaru Island in Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands, known for its place within the Central Malayo-Polynesian subgroup.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Selaru language
linked to: Selaru language