Proto-Barito
E207958
Proto-Barito is the reconstructed ancestral language from which the Barito subgroup of Austronesian languages is derived.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Proto-Barito canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1861383 — 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: Proto-Barito Context triple: [Barito languages subgroup, hasProtoLanguage, Proto-Barito]
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A.
Proto-Javanese
Proto-Javanese is the reconstructed ancestral language from which modern Javanese and related Javanic languages are believed to have evolved.
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B.
Sabaic
Sabaic is an ancient South Arabian Semitic language once used in inscriptions and documents in what is now Yemen.
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C.
Proto-Nahuan
Proto-Nahuan is the reconstructed common ancestor language of the Nahuan (including Nahuatl) language family of Mesoamerica.
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D.
Batanic languages
Batanic languages are a small subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Batanes Islands of the northern Philippines and parts of Taiwan, known for their unique phonological and lexical features.
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E.
Proto-Bisayan
Proto-Bisayan is the reconstructed common ancestor language from which the various Bisayan (Visayan) languages of the central Philippines are believed to have evolved.
- 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: Proto-Barito Target entity description: Proto-Barito is the reconstructed ancestral language from which the Barito subgroup of Austronesian languages is derived.
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A.
Proto-Javanese
Proto-Javanese is the reconstructed ancestral language from which modern Javanese and related Javanic languages are believed to have evolved.
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B.
Sabaic
Sabaic is an ancient South Arabian Semitic language once used in inscriptions and documents in what is now Yemen.
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C.
Proto-Nahuan
Proto-Nahuan is the reconstructed common ancestor language of the Nahuan (including Nahuatl) language family of Mesoamerica.
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D.
Batanic languages
Batanic languages are a small subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Batanes Islands of the northern Philippines and parts of Taiwan, known for their unique phonological and lexical features.
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E.
Proto-Bisayan
Proto-Bisayan is the reconstructed common ancestor language from which the various Bisayan (Visayan) languages of the central Philippines are believed to have evolved.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian proto-language
ⓘ
proto-language ⓘ reconstructed language ⓘ |
| ancestorOf |
Barito languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Barito languages subgroup
Dusun Malang language ⓘ Dusun Witu language ⓘ East Barito languages ⓘ
linked to:
Barito languages subgroup
Maanyan language ⓘ Malagasy language ⓘ
linked to:
Malagasy
Ngaju language ⓘ West Barito languages ⓘ
linked to:
Barito languages subgroup
|
| associatedWith |
Barito River region
ⓘ
linked to:
Barito River
|
| classificationStatus | generally accepted within Austronesian studies ⓘ |
| geneticAffiliation |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Proto-Barito language ⓘ |
| hasDescendantGroup | languages of southern Borneo ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Austronesian basic vocabulary (reconstructed)
ⓘ
Austronesian-type voice system (reconstructed) ⓘ rich affixal morphology (reconstructed) ⓘ |
| influenced |
basic vocabulary of Malagasy
ⓘ
phonology of Malagasy ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | none ⓘ |
| languageFamilyBranch |
Barito subgroup
ⓘ
linked to:
Barito languages subgroup
|
| notAttestedInWriting | true ⓘ |
| reconstructedBy | comparative method ⓘ |
| reconstructedFrom |
Maanyan language data
ⓘ
Ngaju language data ⓘ other Barito languages data ⓘ |
| reconstructionStatus | partial ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Borneo (inferred homeland of its descendants) ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Austronesian linguistics
ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ |
| subgroupOf |
Barito languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Barito languages subgroup
|
| subgroupWithin | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| timeDepth | pre-historic period ⓘ |
| writingSystem | none (reconstructed only) ⓘ |
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: Proto-Barito Description of subject: Proto-Barito is the reconstructed ancestral language from which the Barito subgroup of Austronesian languages is derived.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.