Paama
E153869
Paama is an Oceanic language spoken primarily on Paama Island in central Vanuatu.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paama canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1351973 — 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: Paama Context triple: [Vanuatu languages, includesLanguage, Paama]
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A.
Palilula
Palilula is one of the urban municipalities of Belgrade, Serbia, encompassing both central city neighborhoods and outlying suburban and rural areas.
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B.
The Peg
The Peg is a colloquial nickname for Winnipeg, the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Manitoba.
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C.
Le Bonheur
Le Bonheur is a philosophical poetry collection by French poet and Nobel laureate Sully Prudhomme that meditates on the nature and pursuit of human happiness.
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D.
Pijin
Pijin is an English-based creole language widely used as a lingua franca in the Solomon Islands.
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E.
D’eux
D’eux is a hugely successful French-language studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, widely regarded as one of the best-selling Francophone albums of all time.
- 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: Paama Target entity description: Paama is an Oceanic language spoken primarily on Paama Island in central Vanuatu.
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A.
Palilula
Palilula is one of the urban municipalities of Belgrade, Serbia, encompassing both central city neighborhoods and outlying suburban and rural areas.
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B.
The Peg
The Peg is a colloquial nickname for Winnipeg, the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Manitoba.
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C.
Le Bonheur
Le Bonheur is a philosophical poetry collection by French poet and Nobel laureate Sully Prudhomme that meditates on the nature and pursuit of human happiness.
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D.
Pijin
Pijin is an English-based creole language widely used as a lingua franca in the Solomon Islands.
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E.
D’eux
D’eux is a hugely successful French-language studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, widely regarded as one of the best-selling Francophone albums of all time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Oceanic language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| country | Vanuatu ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| glottologName | Paama ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Paama language ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Lulep
ⓘ
Luli ⓘ Paama proper ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | paam1247 ⓘ |
| hasMorphology | moderately analytic ⓘ |
| hasPhonologyFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
small consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasTypology | SVO word order ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | pma ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
Central Vanuatu languages ⓘ
linked to:
Vanuatu languages
Malayo-Polynesian ⓘ
linked to:
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Oceanic ⓘ Southern Oceanic ⓘ
linked to:
Western Oceanic
|
| locatedIn | Shefa Province ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Emae
ⓘ
Lopevi ⓘ Nguna ⓘ North Efate ⓘ South Efate ⓘ |
| region | Paama Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Paama Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vanuatu ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion | central Vanuatu ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Southern Oceanic language ⓘ |
| usedFor | everyday communication on Paama Island ⓘ |
| 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: Paama Description of subject: Paama is an Oceanic language spoken primarily on Paama Island in central Vanuatu.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.