Yapese
E45146
Yapese is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the island of Yap and nearby islands in the western Pacific.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yapese canonical | 10 |
| Yapese language | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T353700 — 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: Yapese Context triple: [Federated States of Micronesia, recognizedLanguage, Yapese]
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A.
Okinawan Japanese
Okinawan Japanese is a regional variety of the Japanese language spoken primarily in Okinawa, influenced by both Standard Japanese and the indigenous Ryukyuan languages.
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B.
Japanese
Japanese is the national language of Japan, a Japonic language known for its complex writing system combining kanji and kana.
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C.
Ryukyuan languages
The Ryukyuan languages are a group of closely related but distinct Japonic languages traditionally spoken in Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, many of which are now endangered.
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D.
Kyushu dialect
The Kyushu dialect is a group of Japanese regional speech varieties spoken on Japan’s Kyushu island, known for distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar that can be hard for speakers of standard Japanese to understand.
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E.
Bugis
The Bugis are a seafaring Austronesian ethnic group from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known historically as skilled sailors, traders, and navigators.
- 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: Yapese Target entity description: Yapese is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the island of Yap and nearby islands in the western Pacific.
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A.
Okinawan Japanese
Okinawan Japanese is a regional variety of the Japanese language spoken primarily in Okinawa, influenced by both Standard Japanese and the indigenous Ryukyuan languages.
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B.
Japanese
Japanese is the national language of Japan, a Japonic language known for its complex writing system combining kanji and kana.
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C.
Ryukyuan languages
The Ryukyuan languages are a group of closely related but distinct Japonic languages traditionally spoken in Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, many of which are now endangered.
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D.
Kyushu dialect
The Kyushu dialect is a group of Japanese regional speech varieties spoken on Japan’s Kyushu island, known for distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar that can be hard for speakers of standard Japanese to understand.
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E.
Bugis
The Bugis are a seafaring Austronesian ethnic group from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known historically as skilled sailors, traders, and navigators.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Oceanic language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Malayo-Polynesian languages
|
| country | Federated States of Micronesia ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Yap
ⓘ
linked to:
Yap Islands
Yapese language ⓘ
linked to:
Yapese
|
| hasDomain |
education (local primary level)
ⓘ
local government ⓘ religion ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | yape1248 ⓘ |
| hasISO639-2Code | yap ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | yap ⓘ |
| hasLanguagePolicyStatus | recognized local language in Yap State ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticArea |
Micronesian languages area
ⓘ
linked to:
Micronesian languages
|
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNativeName | Yapese ⓘ |
| hasNeighborLanguage |
Ulithian
ⓘ
Woleaian ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakersRange | 6000–8000 ⓘ |
| hasOrthographicFeature | use of macrons or doubled vowels for length (in some orthographies) ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
complex consonant clusters
ⓘ
contrastive vowel length ⓘ geminate consonants ⓘ |
| hasStressPattern | predictable stress ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalFeature |
noun classifiers
ⓘ
prepositions rather than postpositions ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ Japanese ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | schools on Yap ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| primaryIsland |
Yap Island
ⓘ
linked to:
Yap Islands
|
| region | Micronesia ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Federated States of Micronesia
ⓘ
Yap ⓘ
linked to:
Yap Islands
western Pacific ⓘ |
| subfamily | Oceanic languages ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication on Yap
ⓘ
local media ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
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: Yapese Description of subject: Yapese is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the island of Yap and nearby islands in the western Pacific.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yapese
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linked to: Yapese
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linked to: Yapese
linked to: Yapese
linked to: Yapese