Old Mon
E220631
Old Mon is an ancient Austroasiatic language historically spoken in what is now Myanmar and Thailand, known from inscriptions that significantly illuminate early mainland Southeast Asian history and culture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Mon canonical | 7 |
| Modern Mon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1945990 — 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: Old Mon Context triple: [Austroasiatic, hasHistoricalLanguage, Old Mon]
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A.
Old Bar
Old Bar is a small coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its beaches, surfing, and relaxed holiday atmosphere.
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B.
Old Put
Old Put is the famous nickname of Israel Putnam, a bold and colorful American Revolutionary War general known for his leadership at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
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C.
Old Man
"Old Man" is a classic folk-rock song by Neil Young, known for its reflective lyrics about aging and life perspective, originally released on his 1972 album "Harvest."
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D.
Mönch
Mönch is a prominent mountain peak in the Swiss Bernese Alps, forming part of the famous Eiger–Mönch–Jungfrau trio.
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E.
Munttoren
Munttoren is a historic clock and bell tower in central Amsterdam, originally part of the city’s medieval fortifications and now a notable canal-side landmark.
- 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: Old Mon Target entity description: Old Mon is an ancient Austroasiatic language historically spoken in what is now Myanmar and Thailand, known from inscriptions that significantly illuminate early mainland Southeast Asian history and culture.
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A.
Old Bar
Old Bar is a small coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its beaches, surfing, and relaxed holiday atmosphere.
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B.
Old Put
Old Put is the famous nickname of Israel Putnam, a bold and colorful American Revolutionary War general known for his leadership at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
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C.
Old Man
"Old Man" is a classic folk-rock song by Neil Young, known for its reflective lyrics about aging and life perspective, originally released on his 1972 album "Harvest."
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D.
Mönch
Mönch is a prominent mountain peak in the Swiss Bernese Alps, forming part of the famous Eiger–Mönch–Jungfrau trio.
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E.
Munttoren
Munttoren is a historic clock and bell tower in central Amsterdam, originally part of the city’s medieval fortifications and now a notable canal-side landmark.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austroasiatic language
ⓘ
historical language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| attestedIn |
donative inscriptions
ⓘ
stone inscriptions ⓘ temple inscriptions ⓘ |
| descendedTo | Mon language ⓘ |
| evidenceFor |
early Theravada Buddhism in mainland Southeast Asia
ⓘ
early mainland Southeast Asian history ⓘ political organization of early Mon kingdoms ⓘ |
| family | Austroasiatic ⓘ |
| historicalTerritory |
Central Thailand
ⓘ
Dvaravati ⓘ Lower Burma ⓘ
linked to:
southern Myanmar
Thaton Kingdom ⓘ |
| influenced |
Burmese script
ⓘ
Khmer script ⓘ Thai script ⓘ |
| ISO639Status | no modern ISO 639 code (historical variety) ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Monic ⓘ |
| notableCorpusType |
religious dedication inscriptions
ⓘ
royal foundation inscriptions ⓘ |
| phonologicalFeature | register contrast ⓘ |
| region |
Mainland Southeast Asia
ⓘ
linked to:
Indochinese Peninsula
Myanmar ⓘ Thailand ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Khmer language
ⓘ
linked to:
Khmer
Nyah Kur language ⓘ |
| role |
administrative language
ⓘ
liturgical language ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| scriptOrigin |
derived from South Indian scripts
ⓘ
influenced by Pallava script ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Monic languages ⓘ |
| successor |
Middle Mon
ⓘ
Modern Mon ⓘ
linked to:
Old Mon
|
| timePeriod |
early second millennium CE
ⓘ
first millennium CE ⓘ |
| usedBy | Mon people ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Buddhist inscriptions
ⓘ
religious donations ⓘ royal edicts ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Mon script
ⓘ
Pallava-derived script ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | abugida ⓘ |
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: Old Mon Description of subject: Old Mon is an ancient Austroasiatic language historically spoken in what is now Myanmar and Thailand, known from inscriptions that significantly illuminate early mainland Southeast Asian history and culture.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.