Chowra language
E417503
The Chowra language is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the indigenous community of Chowra Island in India’s Nicobar Islands.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chowra language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4156034 — 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: Chowra language Context triple: [Nicobarese languages, languageFamilyOf, Chowra language]
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A.
Chaha language
Chaha is an Afroasiatic Semitic language of the Gurage group spoken primarily in southwestern Ethiopia.
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B.
Corachol language
The Corachol language is a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family that includes closely related indigenous languages such as Huichol and Cora spoken in western Mexico.
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C.
Kharia language
Kharia language is a Munda language spoken primarily by the Kharia people in eastern India, especially in the states of Jharkhand, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh.
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D.
Dawan language
The Dawan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in West Timor, Indonesia, by the Atoni people.
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E.
Cham language
Cham language is an Austronesian language historically spoken by the Cham people of mainland Southeast Asia, particularly in present-day Vietnam and Cambodia.
- 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: Chowra language Target entity description: The Chowra language is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the indigenous community of Chowra Island in India’s Nicobar Islands.
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A.
Chaha language
Chaha is an Afroasiatic Semitic language of the Gurage group spoken primarily in southwestern Ethiopia.
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B.
Corachol language
The Corachol language is a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family that includes closely related indigenous languages such as Huichol and Cora spoken in western Mexico.
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C.
Kharia language
Kharia language is a Munda language spoken primarily by the Kharia people in eastern India, especially in the states of Jharkhand, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh.
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D.
Dawan language
The Dawan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in West Timor, Indonesia, by the Atoni people.
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E.
Cham language
Cham language is an Austronesian language historically spoken by the Cham people of mainland Southeast Asia, particularly in present-day Vietnam and Cambodia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austroasiatic language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Car language
ⓘ
Nancowry language ⓘ Teressa language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision |
Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands
ⓘ
linked to:
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
|
| endangermentFactors |
language shift to more dominant languages in the region
ⓘ
small speaker population ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Chowra Islanders ⓘ |
| family | Austroasiatic ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Chaura
ⓘ
Chowra Nicobarese ⓘ
linked to:
Nicobarese
Chowra-Nicobarese ⓘ
linked to:
Nicobarese languages
|
| ISO639-3 | crv ⓘ |
| languageFamilyBranch | Nicobarese ONNED1 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
ⓘ
Bay of Bengal ⓘ |
| partOf |
Nicobarese branch of Austroasiatic
ⓘ
linked to:
Nicobarese languages
|
| primaryUse | oral communication ⓘ |
| region | Chowra Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | indigenous community of Chowra Island ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Nicobar Islands ⓘ |
| status | endangered language ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Nicobarese languages ⓘ |
| usedIn |
daily communication on Chowra Island
ⓘ
traditional cultural practices of Chowra Island ⓘ |
| writingSystem | no widely used standardized writing system ⓘ |
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: Chowra language Description of subject: The Chowra language is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the indigenous community of Chowra Island in India’s Nicobar Islands.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.