Semai language
E224201
The Semai language is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Semai people, an indigenous Orang Asli group in Peninsular Malaysia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Semai language canonical | 3 |
| Semelai language | 1 |
| Temiar language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1945914 — 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: Semai language Context triple: [Austroasiatic, hasLanguage, Semai language]
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A.
Sehwi language
The Sehwi language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Sehwi people of western Ghana.
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B.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
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C.
Kaado language
The Kaado language is a regional variety within the Songhay language family spoken by communities in parts of West Africa.
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D.
Patamona language
The Patamona language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Patamona people of the Guiana Highlands in Guyana and northern Brazil.
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E.
Seediq language
The Seediq language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Seediq indigenous people of central Taiwan, known for its complex verb morphology and rich system of focus and voice.
- 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: Semai language Target entity description: The Semai language is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Semai people, an indigenous Orang Asli group in Peninsular Malaysia.
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A.
Sehwi language
The Sehwi language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Sehwi people of western Ghana.
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B.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
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C.
Kaado language
The Kaado language is a regional variety within the Songhay language family spoken by communities in parts of West Africa.
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D.
Patamona language
The Patamona language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Patamona people of the Guiana Highlands in Guyana and northern Brazil.
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E.
Seediq language
The Seediq language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Seediq indigenous people of central Taiwan, known for its complex verb morphology and rich system of focus and voice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Aslian language
ⓘ
Austroasiatic language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Orang Asli languages ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Lanoh language
ⓘ
Temiar language ⓘ |
| country | Malaysia ⓘ |
| endangeredCause | language shift to Malay ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Semai people ⓘ |
| geneticClassification | Austroasiatic > Aslian > Senoic > Semai ⓘ |
| glottologCode | sema1266 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Semai ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Semaq (historical or variant label)
ⓘ
linked to:
Semaq Beri language
Səmai ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Central Semai
ⓘ
Northern Semai ⓘ
linked to:
Orang Asli
Southern Semai ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
nasal consonant contrasts ⓘ register or voice-quality contrasts ⓘ rich vowel system ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | limited inflectional morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | complex consonant clusters (in some dialects) ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation | bilingualism with Malay ⓘ |
| isNotOfficialLanguageOf | Malaysia ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | sea ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Aslian
ⓘ
Austroasiatic ⓘ |
| linguisticArea |
Mainland Southeast Asia
ⓘ
linked to:
Indochinese Peninsula
|
| minorityLanguageIn | Malaysia ⓘ |
| region | central Peninsular Malaysia ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Orang Asli
ⓘ
Semai people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Malaysia
ⓘ
Peninsular Malaysia ⓘ
linked to:
West Malaysia
|
| subfamilyOf |
Aslian branch
ⓘ
Austroasiatic language family ⓘ
linked to:
Austroasiatic
|
| subjectOf |
anthropological linguistics research
ⓘ
descriptive grammars ⓘ phonological studies ⓘ |
| typology | mostly analytic ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication within Semai communities ⓘ |
| usedIn |
oral tradition
ⓘ
traditional songs and stories ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| 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: Semai language Description of subject: The Semai language is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Semai people, an indigenous Orang Asli group in Peninsular Malaysia.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Semai language
linked to: Semai language