Nese
E155131
Nese is an endangered Oceanic language spoken by a small community on the island of Malakula in Vanuatu.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nese canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1351988 — 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: Nese Context triple: [Vanuatu languages, includesLanguage, Nese]
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A.
Nafe
Nafe is an indigenous Oceanic language spoken in Vanuatu.
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B.
Nesiota
Nesiota is a small, likely extinct genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, historically known from the South Atlantic island of St. Helena.
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C.
Nain
Nain is a remote coastal town in northern Labrador, Canada, known as the administrative center of the Inuit region of Nunatsiavut.
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D.
Nealy
Nealy is a diminutive or affectionate form of the given name Neal.
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E.
Nalik
Nalik is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
- 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: Nese Target entity description: Nese is an endangered Oceanic language spoken by a small community on the island of Malakula in Vanuatu.
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A.
Nafe
Nafe is an indigenous Oceanic language spoken in Vanuatu.
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B.
Nesiota
Nesiota is a small, likely extinct genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, historically known from the South Atlantic island of St. Helena.
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C.
Nain
Nain is a remote coastal town in northern Labrador, Canada, known as the administrative center of the Inuit region of Nunatsiavut.
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D.
Nealy
Nealy is a diminutive or affectionate form of the given name Neal.
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E.
Nalik
Nalik is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Oceanic language
ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Malakula languages ⓘ |
| continent | Oceania ⓘ |
| country | Vanuatu ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Matanvat ⓘ |
| hasDocumentationType |
grammatical description
ⓘ
lexical materials ⓘ |
| hasDomain | linguistics ⓘ |
| hasEndangermentCause |
dominance of Bislama in daily communication
ⓘ
migration from traditional villages ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | nese1237 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Nese ⓘ |
| hasLanguageCodeStandard | ISO 639-3 ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
SVO word order
ⓘ
phonemic vowel length ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | moderately agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Naman
ⓘ
Tape ⓘ Vovo ⓘ V’ënen Taut ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive stress
ⓘ
small consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasResearcher | Terry Crowley ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation | used mainly by older speakers ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | nes ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | language documentation studies ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ Oceanic languages ⓘ Southern Oceanic languages ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC+11 ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | very few speakers ⓘ |
| region | Malakula ⓘ |
| riskFactor |
language shift to Bislama
ⓘ
language shift to other local languages ⓘ |
| spokenBy | small community on Malakula ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Vanuatu ⓘ |
| spokenInArchipelago | New Hebrides ⓘ |
| spokenInVillage | Matanvat ⓘ |
| spokenOn | Malakula ⓘ |
| status | endangered ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Southern Oceanic language ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Oceanic languages
|
| 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: Nese Description of subject: Nese is an endangered Oceanic language spoken by a small community on the island of Malakula in Vanuatu.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.