Auslan Signbank
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Auslan Signbank is an online lexical database and dictionary of Australian Sign Language (Auslan), providing videos, definitions, and linguistic information about Auslan signs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Auslan Signbank canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9478041 — 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: Auslan Signbank Context triple: [Auslan, hasResource, Auslan Signbank]
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A.
Auslan
Auslan is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Australia, closely related to British and New Zealand Sign Languages.
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B.
ASL
ASL is the three-letter station code used to identify Arsenal Underground station on the London Underground network.
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C.
ASL
ASL is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Air Serbia in international aviation operations and communications.
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D.
ASL
ASL is an international scholarly organization devoted to the advancement of research and education in symbolic logic and its applications.
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E.
American Sign Language
American Sign Language is a natural visual-gestural language used primarily by Deaf communities in the United States and parts of Canada, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken English.
- 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: Auslan Signbank Target entity description: Auslan Signbank is an online lexical database and dictionary of Australian Sign Language (Auslan), providing videos, definitions, and linguistic information about Auslan signs.
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A.
Auslan
Auslan is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Australia, closely related to British and New Zealand Sign Languages.
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B.
ASL
ASL is the three-letter station code used to identify Arsenal Underground station on the London Underground network.
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C.
ASL
ASL is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Air Serbia in international aviation operations and communications.
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D.
ASL
ASL is an international scholarly organization devoted to the advancement of research and education in symbolic logic and its applications.
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E.
American Sign Language
American Sign Language is a natural visual-gestural language used primarily by Deaf communities in the United States and parts of Canada, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken English.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
linguistic resource
ⓘ
online dictionary ⓘ online lexical database ⓘ |
| access | online ⓘ |
| contentType |
English translations
ⓘ
glosses ⓘ phonological descriptions of signs ⓘ semantic descriptions of signs ⓘ sign entries ⓘ usage notes ⓘ video clips ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| focusesOn | lexicon of Australian Sign Language ⓘ |
| goal |
document Auslan vocabulary
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provide authoritative information about Auslan signs ⓘ support Auslan teaching and learning ⓘ support research on Australian Sign Language ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
educational support materials
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information on regional variation ⓘ information on sign frequency ⓘ information on sign register ⓘ links between related signs ⓘ search by Auslan gloss ⓘ search by English word ⓘ search by handshape ⓘ search by location ⓘ search by movement ⓘ search by sign parameters ⓘ searchable sign database ⓘ |
| language |
Auslan
ⓘ
Australian Sign Language ⓘ |
| medium | website ⓘ |
| provides |
definitions of Auslan signs
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example sentences in Auslan ⓘ information on sign usage ⓘ information on sign variants ⓘ linguistic information about Auslan signs ⓘ videos of Auslan signs ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Auslan
ⓘ
Australian Deaf community ⓘ
linked to:
Deaf Australians
sign language dictionaries ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
Auslan linguistics
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Deaf studies ⓘ sign language lexicography ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
Auslan learners
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Auslan teachers ⓘ Deaf community in Australia ⓘ interpreters ⓘ linguists ⓘ |
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: Auslan Signbank Description of subject: Auslan Signbank is an online lexical database and dictionary of Australian Sign Language (Auslan), providing videos, definitions, and linguistic information about Auslan signs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.