Kayeli language
E159687
The Kayeli language is an Austronesian language once spoken on Buru Island in Indonesia, now critically endangered or possibly extinct.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kayeli language canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1322807 — 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: Kayeli language Context triple: [South Sulawesi languages, hasSubgroup, Kayeli language]
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A.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
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B.
Esselen language
The Esselen language is an extinct and poorly documented Native American language once spoken by the Esselen people of coastal central California.
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C.
Kalanguya language
The Kalanguya language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalanguya people in the northern Luzon highlands of the Philippines.
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D.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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E.
Kamviri language
The Kamviri language is a Nuristani language spoken primarily by the Kam people in parts of eastern Afghanistan and neighboring regions of Pakistan.
- 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: Kayeli language Target entity description: The Kayeli language is an Austronesian language once spoken on Buru Island in Indonesia, now critically endangered or possibly extinct.
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A.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
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B.
Esselen language
The Esselen language is an extinct and poorly documented Native American language once spoken by the Esselen people of coastal central California.
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C.
Kalanguya language
The Kalanguya language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalanguya people in the northern Luzon highlands of the Philippines.
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D.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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E.
Kamviri language
The Kamviri language is a Nuristani language spoken primarily by the Kam people in parts of eastern Afghanistan and neighboring regions of Pakistan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Kaei
ⓘ
Kaili of Buru ⓘ Kayely ⓘ |
| classificationStatus | well-attested as Central Maluku Austronesian ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | poorly documented ⓘ |
| endangermentCause |
language shift to Indonesian
ⓘ
small speaker population ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Kayeli people ⓘ |
| glottologCode | kaye1237 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Kayeli ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Fogi dialect
ⓘ
Masarete dialect ⓘ Wae Sama dialect ⓘ |
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom |
Indonesian
ⓘ
Malay ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | affixal verbal morphology (reported) ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (reported)
ⓘ
simple consonant inventory (reported) ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalProperty | SVO basic word order (reported) ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | kzl ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Central Maluku languages ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Buru Island ⓘ |
| macroArea | Papunesia ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Buru language
ⓘ
linked to:
Buru languages
Lisela language ⓘ |
| region | Buru Regency ⓘ |
| shiftedTo |
Ambonese Malay
ⓘ
linked to:
Ambon Malay
Indonesian ⓘ |
| spokenBy | very small number of elderly speakers (historically) ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Buru Island
ⓘ
Maluku Islands ⓘ |
| status |
critically endangered
ⓘ
possibly extinct ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Buru languages ⓘ |
| UNESCOStatus | critically endangered (reported) ⓘ |
| 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: Kayeli language Description of subject: The Kayeli language is an Austronesian language once spoken on Buru Island in Indonesia, now critically endangered or possibly extinct.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.