Madagascar Sign Language
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Madagascar Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Madagascar, historically influenced by French Sign Language.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madagascar Sign Language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9478102 — 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: Madagascar Sign Language Context triple: [French Sign Language family, hasMember, Madagascar Sign Language]
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A.
Malian Sign Language
Malian Sign Language is a sign language used by the Deaf community in Mali, belonging to the broader French Sign Language family.
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B.
Burkina Faso Sign Language
Burkina Faso Sign Language is a sign language used by Deaf communities in Burkina Faso that developed from and is linguistically related to French Sign Language.
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C.
Senegalese Sign Language
Senegalese Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Senegal, historically derived from and influenced by French Sign Language.
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D.
Central African Sign Language
Central African Sign Language is the primary sign language used by Deaf communities in the Central African Republic, derived from and influenced by the French Sign Language family.
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E.
Tunisian Sign Language
Tunisian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Tunisia, historically derived from and influenced by the French Sign Language family.
- 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: Madagascar Sign Language Target entity description: Madagascar Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Madagascar, historically influenced by French Sign Language.
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A.
Malian Sign Language
Malian Sign Language is a sign language used by the Deaf community in Mali, belonging to the broader French Sign Language family.
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B.
Burkina Faso Sign Language
Burkina Faso Sign Language is a sign language used by Deaf communities in Burkina Faso that developed from and is linguistically related to French Sign Language.
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C.
Senegalese Sign Language
Senegalese Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Senegal, historically derived from and influenced by French Sign Language.
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D.
Central African Sign Language
Central African Sign Language is the primary sign language used by Deaf communities in the Central African Republic, derived from and influenced by the French Sign Language family.
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E.
Tunisian Sign Language
Tunisian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Tunisia, historically derived from and influenced by the French Sign Language family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural language
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ |
| communicationChannel | face-to-face interaction ⓘ |
| countryUsedIn | Madagascar ⓘ |
| hasCommunity | Madagascar Deaf community ⓘ |
| hasLanguageType | minority language ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticLevels |
morphology
ⓘ
phonology ⓘ semantics ⓘ syntax ⓘ |
| hasStatus | primary sign language of Madagascar Deaf community ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | no conventional written form ⓘ |
| isDifferentFrom |
American Sign Language
ⓘ
French Sign Language ⓘ spoken Malagasy ⓘ |
| languageFamilyInfluence | French Sign Language ⓘ |
| modality |
gestural
ⓘ
visual ⓘ |
| primaryUsers | Deaf community in Madagascar ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Deaf people in Madagascar
ⓘ
hard of hearing people in Madagascar ⓘ |
| usedFor |
access to information for Deaf people in Madagascar
ⓘ
education of Deaf children in Madagascar ⓘ social interaction among Deaf people in Madagascar ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Deaf associations in Madagascar
ⓘ
Deaf schools in Madagascar ⓘ informal communication among Deaf people in Madagascar ⓘ |
| usesArticulators |
body posture
ⓘ
facial expressions ⓘ hands ⓘ |
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: Madagascar Sign Language Description of subject: Madagascar Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Madagascar, historically influenced by French Sign Language.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.