Melanau language
E536159
The Melanau language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Melanau people of coastal Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Melanau language canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5575446 — 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: Melanau language Context triple: [Bornean languages, includesLanguage, Melanau language]
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A.
Kadazan Dusun language
Kadazan Dusun is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Kadazan-Dusun people of Sabah, Malaysia, and is notable for its rich oral traditions and role in indigenous cultural identity.
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B.
Bajau language
The Bajau language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the seafaring Bajau people of maritime Southeast Asia, especially in parts of Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
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C.
Kedayan language
The Kedayan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Kedayan people of Brunei, Sabah, and parts of Borneo, closely related to Malay and other Greater North Borneo languages.
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D.
Kutai Malay
Kutai Malay is a regional variety of the Malayic language family spoken primarily in the Kutai region of East Kalimantan, Indonesia, with its own distinctive phonological and lexical features.
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E.
Rejang languages
The Rejang languages are a small group of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in southwestern Sumatra, Indonesia, known for their distinctive phonology and use of the traditional Rejang script.
- 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: Melanau language Target entity description: The Melanau language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Melanau people of coastal Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo.
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A.
Kadazan Dusun language
Kadazan Dusun is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Kadazan-Dusun people of Sabah, Malaysia, and is notable for its rich oral traditions and role in indigenous cultural identity.
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B.
Bajau language
The Bajau language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the seafaring Bajau people of maritime Southeast Asia, especially in parts of Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
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C.
Kedayan language
The Kedayan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Kedayan people of Brunei, Sabah, and parts of Borneo, closely related to Malay and other Greater North Borneo languages.
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D.
Kutai Malay
Kutai Malay is a regional variety of the Malayic language family spoken primarily in the Kutai region of East Kalimantan, Indonesia, with its own distinctive phonological and lexical features.
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E.
Rejang languages
The Rejang languages are a small group of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in southwestern Sumatra, Indonesia, known for their distinctive phonology and use of the traditional Rejang script.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: Melanau language Description of subject: The Melanau language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Melanau people of coastal Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.