Australian Sign Language
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Australian Sign Language (Auslan) is the primary sign language of the Australian Deaf community, developed from British Sign Language and used for everyday communication, education, and cultural expression.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Australian Sign Language canonical | 11 |
| Australian Sign Language (Auslan) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T362303 — 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: Australian Sign Language Context triple: [New Zealand Sign Language, sharesAncestryWith, Australian Sign Language]
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A.
British Sign Language
British Sign Language is the primary sign language used by Deaf communities in the United Kingdom, with its own distinct grammar, vocabulary, and historical development separate from spoken English.
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B.
New Zealand Sign Language
New Zealand Sign Language is the primary sign language of the Deaf community in New Zealand and one of the country’s official languages, known for its own distinct grammar and vocabulary.
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C.
Jamaican Sign Language
Jamaican Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Jamaica, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Jamaican English and other sign languages.
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D.
Korean Sign Language
Korean Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in South Korea, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Korean.
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E.
Australian English
Australian English is the variety of the English language spoken in Australia, characterized by its distinctive accent, vocabulary, and some unique grammatical and spelling conventions.
- 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: Australian Sign Language Target entity description: Australian Sign Language (Auslan) is the primary sign language of the Australian Deaf community, developed from British Sign Language and used for everyday communication, education, and cultural expression.
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A.
British Sign Language
British Sign Language is the primary sign language used by Deaf communities in the United Kingdom, with its own distinct grammar, vocabulary, and historical development separate from spoken English.
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B.
New Zealand Sign Language
New Zealand Sign Language is the primary sign language of the Deaf community in New Zealand and one of the country’s official languages, known for its own distinct grammar and vocabulary.
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C.
Jamaican Sign Language
Jamaican Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Jamaica, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Jamaican English and other sign languages.
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D.
Korean Sign Language
Korean Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in South Korea, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Korean.
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E.
Australian English
Australian English is the variety of the English language spoken in Australia, characterized by its distinctive accent, vocabulary, and some unique grammatical and spelling conventions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural language
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sign language ⓘ visual-gestural language ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
British Sign Language
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various British regional sign dialects ⓘ |
| documentedUsing |
glosses based on English words
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video recordings ⓘ |
| fullName | Australian Sign Language ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Northern dialect
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Southern dialect ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
its own grammar distinct from English
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its own lexicon distinct from English ⓘ regional lexical variation across Australian states ⓘ use of space for grammar and reference ⓘ |
| hasLinguist | Trevor Johnston ⓘ |
| hasOrganization |
Australian Sign Language Interpreters’ Association
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Deaf Australia ⓘ |
| hasResource | Auslan Signbank online dictionary ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | no widely used native written form ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
American Sign Language
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Irish Sign Language ⓘ local home sign systems ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | asf ⓘ |
| languageFamily | British Sign Language family ⓘ |
| modality | manual-visual ⓘ |
| notDerivedFrom | spoken English ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageOf | Australian Deaf community ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | community language in Australia ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Australian governments at state and federal levels ⓘ |
| shortName | Auslan ⓘ |
| taughtAt |
Australian universities
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TAFE and community colleges in Australia ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Deaf people in Australia
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hard of hearing people in Australia ⓘ hearing signers connected to the Deaf community ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cultural expression
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education of Deaf students ⓘ everyday communication ⓘ interpreting in public services ⓘ |
| usedIn | Australia ⓘ |
| usedInDomain |
court interpreting
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education interpreting ⓘ medical interpreting ⓘ television interpreting ⓘ |
| uses |
body posture
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facial expressions ⓘ handshapes ⓘ locations in signing space ⓘ movements ⓘ |
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: Australian Sign Language Description of subject: Australian Sign Language (Auslan) is the primary sign language of the Australian Deaf community, developed from British Sign Language and used for everyday communication, education, and cultural expression.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Australian Sign Language
British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language family
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includesLanguage
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Australian Sign Language
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linked to: Australian Sign Language