Kavalan language
E149481
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kavalan language canonical | 8 |
| Kanakanavu language | 1 |
| Kavalanese | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1204539 — 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: Kavalan language Context triple: [Formosan languages, majorSubgroupIncludes, Kavalan language]
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A.
Kawaiisu language
Kawaiisu language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Kawaiisu people of southern California.
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B.
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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C.
Truku language
The Truku language is an indigenous Austronesian language of the Truku people in eastern Taiwan, noted for its complex phonology and endangered status.
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D.
Chimariko language
The Chimariko language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northwestern California, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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E.
Siuslaw language
The Siuslaw language is an extinct Native American language once spoken along the central Oregon coast, often classified within the proposed Penutian language family.
- 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: Kavalan language Target entity description: The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
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A.
Kawaiisu language
Kawaiisu language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Kawaiisu people of southern California.
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B.
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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C.
Truku language
The Truku language is an indigenous Austronesian language of the Truku people in eastern Taiwan, noted for its complex phonology and endangered status.
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D.
Chimariko language
The Chimariko language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northwestern California, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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E.
Siuslaw language
The Siuslaw language is an extinct Native American language once spoken along the central Oregon coast, often classified within the proposed Penutian language family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Kavalanese
ⓘ
Kbalan ⓘ Kebalan ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Formosan indigenous languages of Taiwan ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Basay language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Republic of China ⓘ |
| documentation | described in modern linguistic fieldwork ⓘ |
| endangermentLevel | severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Kavalan people
ⓘ
linked to:
Gaoshan people
|
| family |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| glottocode | kava1241 ⓘ |
| hasCaseMarking | preposed case markers ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Austronesian alignment
ⓘ
focus system ⓘ numeral classifiers ⓘ preposed clitics ⓘ reduplication ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ voice alternations ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive stress
ⓘ
five-vowel system ⓘ simple consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasPronounSystem |
clitic pronouns
ⓘ
inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | ckv ⓘ |
| languageBranch | East Formosan ⓘ |
| languageOf | Kavalan people ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | very few fluent speakers ⓘ |
| region |
Hualien County
ⓘ
Yilan County ⓘ |
| revitalization | subject of community language revitalization efforts ⓘ |
| shiftedTo |
Mandarin Chinese
ⓘ
Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Taiwan
ⓘ
linked to:
Taiwan, Province of China
northeastern Taiwan ⓘ |
| status | endangered ⓘ |
| subfamily | Formosan languages ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
head-initial phrase structure
ⓘ
prepositions rather than postpositions ⓘ |
| usedIn |
oral narratives
ⓘ
ritual speech ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ |
| wordOrder | verb–initial ⓘ |
| 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: Kavalan language Description of subject: The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kavalan language
linked to: Kavalan language