Bora language
E618316
The Bora language is an indigenous Witotoan language spoken by the Bora people of the northwestern Amazon in Peru and Colombia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bora language canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6777012 — 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: Bora language Context triple: [Resígaro language, languageContact, Bora language]
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A.
Korandje language
The Korandje language is a highly endangered Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the oasis town of Tabelbala in southwestern Algeria, notable for its heavy influence from Berber and Arabic.
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B.
Boro language
Boro language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Boro people of Assam in northeastern India.
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C.
Opata language
The Opata language is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Opata people of northern Mexico, particularly in the present-day state of Sonora.
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D.
Bilic languages
The Bilic languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken in parts of the Philippines, characterized by shared phonological and lexical innovations that distinguish them from other Philippine language groups.
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E.
Padoe language
The Padoe language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Padoe people of Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the broader South Sulawesi linguistic group.
- 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: Bora language Target entity description: The Bora language is an indigenous Witotoan language spoken by the Bora people of the northwestern Amazon in Peru and Colombia.
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A.
Korandje language
The Korandje language is a highly endangered Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the oasis town of Tabelbala in southwestern Algeria, notable for its heavy influence from Berber and Arabic.
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B.
Boro language
Boro language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Boro people of Assam in northeastern India.
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C.
Opata language
The Opata language is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Opata people of northern Mexico, particularly in the present-day state of Sonora.
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D.
Bilic languages
The Bilic languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken in parts of the Philippines, characterized by shared phonological and lexical innovations that distinguish them from other Philippine language groups.
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E.
Padoe language
The Padoe language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Padoe people of Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the broader South Sulawesi linguistic group.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Amazonian language
ⓘ
Witotoan language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Muinane language
ⓘ
Witoto languages ⓘ
linked to:
Witotoan languages
|
| country |
Colombia
ⓘ
Peru ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | endangered language ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Bora people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Bora Bora
ⓘ
Miraña-Bora ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Bora of Colombia
ⓘ
Bora of Peru ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
mythology and cosmology
ⓘ
traditional ecological knowledge ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | bora1263 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Bora ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
SOV basic word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ classifier-rich noun phrase system ⓘ tonal language ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEffort |
community-based language teaching
ⓘ
documentation projects by linguists ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity |
indigenous communities along the Napo River
ⓘ
indigenous communities along the Putumayo River ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | boa ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Witotoan languages ⓘ |
| languageStatus |
minority language in Colombia
ⓘ
minority language in Peru ⓘ |
| region | northwestern Amazon ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Bora people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Colombia
ⓘ
Peru ⓘ |
| subjectOfStudy |
Amazonian linguistics
ⓘ
typological linguistics ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
Spanish language
ⓘ
linked to:
Spanish
|
| usedIn |
daily communication within Bora communities
ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ traditional rituals ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
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: Bora language Description of subject: The Bora language is an indigenous Witotoan language spoken by the Bora people of the northwestern Amazon in Peru and Colombia.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.