Mon-Khmer
E41506
Mon-Khmer is a major branch of the Austroasiatic language family that includes numerous languages spoken across mainland Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia.
All labels observed (16)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mon–Khmer languages | 20 |
| Mon-Khmer languages | 15 |
| Mon–Khmer | 15 |
| Mon-Khmer canonical | 3 |
| Proto-Mon–Khmer | 2 |
| Khmu language | 1 |
| Khmuic languages | 1 |
| Khmuʼ language | 1 |
| Lao | 1 |
| Mon-Khmer-speaking peoples | 1 |
| Mon–Khmer branch | 1 |
| Mon–Khmer language | 1 |
| Mon–Khmer language group | 1 |
| Mon–Khmer type phonology | 1 |
| Nuclear Mon–Khmer | 1 |
| Proto-Mon-Khmer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T322822 — 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: Mon-Khmer Context triple: [Khmer, subfamily, Mon-Khmer]
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A.
Khmer
Khmer is the Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Cambodia, where it serves as the official and most widely used national language.
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B.
Vietnamese
Vietnamese refers to the people, language, and culture associated with Vietnam, a Southeast Asian country with a rich history and distinct cultural traditions.
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C.
Cambodia
Cambodia is a Southeast Asian nation known for its ancient Khmer civilization, the Angkor Wat temple complex, and a modern history marked by French colonial rule and the Khmer Rouge regime.
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D.
Vietnamese alphabet
The Vietnamese alphabet is a modern Latin-based writing system that uses additional diacritics to represent the tones and specific sounds of the Vietnamese language.
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E.
Sino-Tibetan languages
The Sino-Tibetan languages are a major language family of East, Southeast, and South Asia that includes Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese, and numerous related languages spoken by over a billion people.
- 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: Mon-Khmer Target entity description: Mon-Khmer is a major branch of the Austroasiatic language family that includes numerous languages spoken across mainland Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia.
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A.
Khmer
Khmer is the Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Cambodia, where it serves as the official and most widely used national language.
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B.
Vietnamese
Vietnamese refers to the people, language, and culture associated with Vietnam, a Southeast Asian country with a rich history and distinct cultural traditions.
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C.
Cambodia
Cambodia is a Southeast Asian nation known for its ancient Khmer civilization, the Angkor Wat temple complex, and a modern history marked by French colonial rule and the Khmer Rouge regime.
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D.
Vietnamese alphabet
The Vietnamese alphabet is a modern Latin-based writing system that uses additional diacritics to represent the tones and specific sounds of the Vietnamese language.
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E.
Sino-Tibetan languages
The Sino-Tibetan languages are a major language family of East, Southeast, and South Asia that includes Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese, and numerous related languages spoken by over a billion people.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
branch of Austroasiatic languages
ⓘ
language family branch ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | Austroasiatic linguistics ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Mon Khmer
ⓘ
Mon–Khmer ⓘ
linked to:
Mon-Khmer
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| hasFeature |
complex consonant systems in some languages
ⓘ
register or phonation contrasts in some languages ⓘ rich vowel systems ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Bahnar language
ⓘ
linked to:
Bahnaric
Katu language ⓘ Khasi language ⓘ Khmer language ⓘ
linked to:
Khmer
Mon language ⓘ Muong language ⓘ Nicobarese languages ⓘ Palaung language ⓘ Vietnamese language ⓘ
linked to:
Vietnamese
|
| hasSubfamily |
Bahnaric
ⓘ
Katuic ⓘ Khasic ⓘ Khmer ⓘ Monic ⓘ Palaungic ⓘ Pearic ⓘ Vietic ⓘ
linked to:
Vietic languages
|
| historicalClassification | core branch of Austroasiatic ⓘ |
| includesNationalLanguageOf |
Cambodia
ⓘ
Vietnam ⓘ
linked to:
Viet Nam
|
| languageFamily | Austroasiatic ⓘ |
| partOf |
Austroasiatic language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Austroasiatic
|
| region |
Mainland Southeast Asia
ⓘ
linked to:
Indochinese Peninsula
South Asia ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Bangladesh
ⓘ
Cambodia ⓘ China ⓘ India ⓘ Laos ⓘ Myanmar ⓘ Nepal ⓘ Thailand ⓘ Vietnam ⓘ
linked to:
Viet Nam
|
| status | includes both national and minority languages ⓘ |
| typology | mostly analytic ⓘ |
| usedBy | multiple ethnic groups in Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| writingSystem | various scripts ⓘ |
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: Mon-Khmer Description of subject: Mon-Khmer is a major branch of the Austroasiatic language family that includes numerous languages spoken across mainland Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia.
Referenced by (66)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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