Kavalan
E231018
Kavalan is an indigenous Austronesian language of Taiwan, traditionally spoken by the Kavalan people on the island’s northeastern coast.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kavalan canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2081720 — 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: Kavalan Context triple: [Austronesian alignment, hasExampleLanguage, Kavalan]
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A.
Amrut
Amrut is a celebrated Marathi poetry collection by Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj), known for its lyrical depth and humanistic themes.
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B.
Bowmore
Bowmore is a prominent village on the Scottish island of Islay, known for its historic distillery and distinctive round church.
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C.
Hennessy
Hennessy is a surname most prominently associated with John L. Hennessy, a renowned computer scientist and former president of Stanford University.
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D.
Sound of Islay
Sound of Islay is a narrow sea strait off Scotland’s west coast that runs between the islands of Islay and Jura in the Inner Hebrides.
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E.
League of Cognac
The League of Cognac was an anti-imperial alliance formed in 1526 by major European powers, including France and several Italian states, to counter the dominance of Emperor Charles V in Italy.
- 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: Kavalan Target entity description: Kavalan is an indigenous Austronesian language of Taiwan, traditionally spoken by the Kavalan people on the island’s northeastern coast.
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A.
Amrut
Amrut is a celebrated Marathi poetry collection by Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj), known for its lyrical depth and humanistic themes.
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B.
Bowmore
Bowmore is a prominent village on the Scottish island of Islay, known for its historic distillery and distinctive round church.
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C.
Hennessy
Hennessy is a surname most prominently associated with John L. Hennessy, a renowned computer scientist and former president of Stanford University.
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D.
Sound of Islay
Sound of Islay is a narrow sea strait off Scotland’s west coast that runs between the islands of Islay and Jura in the Inner Hebrides.
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E.
League of Cognac
The League of Cognac was an anti-imperial alliance formed in 1526 by major European powers, including France and several Italian states, to counter the dominance of Emperor Charles V in Italy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Austronesian language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| branchOf | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| country | Republic of China ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Kavalan people ⓘ |
| hasAlignment | Austronesian alignment ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Kavalanese
ⓘ
linked to:
Kavalan language
Kebalan ⓘ |
| hasEndonym | Kavalan ⓘ |
| hasExonym | Kebalan ⓘ |
| hasLanguageCode | ISO 639-3: ckv ⓘ |
| hasLanguagePolicyContext | Taiwan indigenous language revitalization policies ⓘ |
| hasLanguageStatus | minority language in Taiwan ⓘ |
| hasLexicalBorrowingFrom |
Mandarin Chinese
ⓘ
Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResearch |
descriptive grammars
ⓘ
documented texts ⓘ phonological studies ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive stress
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasPronounSystem | inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural ⓘ |
| hasSyllableStructure | (C)V ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalFeature |
focus system
ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ voice alternations ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | verb–initial ⓘ |
| isEndangeredIn |
Taiwan
ⓘ
linked to:
Taiwan, Province of China
|
| iso639-3Code | ckv ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Formosan languages of Taiwan ⓘ |
| isRecognizedBy | Council of Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | revitalization programs ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| numberOfSpeakers | very few fluent speakers ⓘ |
| region |
Hualien County
ⓘ
Yilan County ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Taiwan
ⓘ
linked to:
Taiwan, Province of China
northeastern Taiwan ⓘ |
| status |
endangered
ⓘ
severely endangered ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Formosan language ⓘ |
| traditionalRegion | northeastern coast of Taiwan ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Kavalan ethnic group
ⓘ
linked to:
Kavalan people
|
| 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: Kavalan Description of subject: Kavalan is an indigenous Austronesian language of Taiwan, traditionally spoken by the Kavalan people on the island’s northeastern coast.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.