Marau language
E181809
The Marau language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Southeast Solomonic branch of the Austronesian language family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marau language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1386032 — 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: Marau language Context triple: [Southeast Solomonic languages, hasMember, Marau language]
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A.
Mambae language
The Mambae language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in East Timor, notable for its role in local identity and traditional culture.
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B.
Rarámuri language
The Rarámuri language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Tarahumara (Rarámuri) people of northern Mexico.
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C.
Kapingamarangi language
The Kapingamarangi language is a Polynesian outlier language spoken primarily on Kapingamarangi Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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D.
Lamaholot language
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
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E.
Tariana language
The Tariana language is an endangered Arawakan language spoken in the northwest Amazon region of Brazil, known for its complex verbal morphology and extensive system of evidentiality.
- 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: Marau language Target entity description: The Marau language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Southeast Solomonic branch of the Austronesian language family.
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A.
Mambae language
The Mambae language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in East Timor, notable for its role in local identity and traditional culture.
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B.
Rarámuri language
The Rarámuri language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Tarahumara (Rarámuri) people of northern Mexico.
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C.
Kapingamarangi language
The Kapingamarangi language is a Polynesian outlier language spoken primarily on Kapingamarangi Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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D.
Lamaholot language
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
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E.
Banda-Linda language
The Banda-Linda language is a Banda language spoken by the Banda-Linda people of the Central African Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Oceanic language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| continent | Oceania ⓘ |
| country | Solomon Islands ⓘ |
| family | Austronesian ⓘ |
| geneticClassification | Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Oceanic > Southeast Solomonic > Marau ⓘ |
| glottologCode | mara1404 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Marau ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Marau (Guadalcanal) ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Austronesian language
ⓘ
linked to:
Proto-Austronesian
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Proto-Oceanic language ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | mvr ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Southeast Solomonic subgroup
ⓘ
linked to:
Southeast Solomonic languages
|
| isSpokenBy |
Marau people
ⓘ
linked to:
Blanga people
|
| languageFamilyBranch |
Southeast Solomonic branch
ⓘ
linked to:
Southeast Solomonic languages
|
| languageStatus |
minority language
ⓘ
vulnerable language ⓘ |
| macroarea | Papunesia ⓘ |
| region | Guadalcanal ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Guadalcanal Province
ⓘ
Solomon Islands ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Malayo-Polynesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Oceanic ⓘ Southeast Solomonic ⓘ
linked to:
Southeast Solomonic languages
|
| subfamilyOf | Southeast Solomonic languages ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
likely SVO basic word order
ⓘ
phonology typical of Southeast Solomonic 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: Marau language Description of subject: The Marau language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Southeast Solomonic branch of the Austronesian language family.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.