Gelao language
E899576
The Gelao language is a highly endangered Kra language spoken by the Gelao ethnic group in parts of southwestern China and northern Vietnam.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gelao language canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11012446 — 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: Gelao language Context triple: [Kra languages, hasSubgroup, Gelao language]
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A.
Tai Lue language
Tai Lue is a Southwestern Tai language spoken primarily by the Tai Lue people in parts of China, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam, known for its own traditional script and close relation to other Tai languages.
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B.
Zeliang language
The Zeliang language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Zeliang Naga people of Northeast India, primarily in parts of Nagaland and Manipur.
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C.
Zhuang language
The Zhuang language is a Tai-Kadai language spoken primarily by the Zhuang ethnic group in Guangxi and surrounding regions of southern China.
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D.
Lingao language
The Lingao language is a Kra–Dai language spoken primarily in Hainan, China, known for its close relation to other Hlai languages and its distinct phonological and lexical features.
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E.
Kaili language
The Kaili language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its multiple dialects and role as a regional lingua franca.
- 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: Gelao language Target entity description: The Gelao language is a highly endangered Kra language spoken by the Gelao ethnic group in parts of southwestern China and northern Vietnam.
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A.
Tai Lue language
Tai Lue is a Southwestern Tai language spoken primarily by the Tai Lue people in parts of China, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam, known for its own traditional script and close relation to other Tai languages.
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B.
Zeliang language
The Zeliang language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Zeliang Naga people of Northeast India, primarily in parts of Nagaland and Manipur.
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C.
Zhuang language
The Zhuang language is a Tai-Kadai language spoken primarily by the Zhuang ethnic group in Guangxi and surrounding regions of southern China.
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D.
Lingao language
The Lingao language is a Kra–Dai language spoken primarily in Hainan, China, known for its close relation to other Hlai languages and its distinct phonological and lexical features.
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E.
Kaili language
The Kaili language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its multiple dialects and role as a regional lingua franca.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kra language
ⓘ
Sino-Tibetan area language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Gelo
ⓘ
Qau language ⓘ |
| classificationStatus | well-established as Kra ⓘ |
| country |
People's Republic of China
ⓘ
linked to:
China
Vietnam ⓘ
linked to:
Viet Nam
|
| documentedBy | field linguists in China and Vietnam ⓘ |
| endangermentCause |
assimilation policies and schooling in Chinese
ⓘ
language shift to dominant regional languages ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Gelao people ⓘ |
| family |
Kra branch
ⓘ
Kra–Dai language family ⓘ
linked to:
Tai–Kadai languages
|
| glottocode | gela1262 ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
A’ou Gelao
ⓘ
Duoluo Gelao ⓘ Green Gelao ⓘ Qau Gelao ⓘ
linked to:
A’ou Gelao
Red Gelao ⓘ White Gelao ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
complex tone system
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| iso639-3 | gel ⓘ |
| languageContactWith |
Bouyei
ⓘ
linked to:
Bouyi
Miao (Hmongic) languages ⓘ Southwestern Mandarin Chinese ⓘ
linked to:
Southwestern Mandarin
|
| languageShiftTo |
Bouyei language
ⓘ
Chinese ⓘ Miao languages ⓘ Southwestern Mandarin ⓘ |
| region |
Northern Vietnam
ⓘ
linked to:
northern Vietnam
Southwestern China ⓘ
linked to:
Southwest China
|
| researchField | Kra–Dai linguistics ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
China
ⓘ
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region ⓘ
linked to:
Guangxi Province
Guizhou Province ⓘ Vietnam ⓘ
linked to:
Viet Nam
Yunnan Province ⓘ northern Vietnam ⓘ |
| status |
highly endangered
ⓘ
severely endangered ⓘ |
| usedBy | older generations of Gelao people ⓘ |
| vitality | critically low number of fluent speakers ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Chinese characters (for limited purposes)
ⓘ
no widely used indigenous script ⓘ |
| youngerSpeakers | very few ⓘ |
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: Gelao language Description of subject: The Gelao language is a highly endangered Kra language spoken by the Gelao ethnic group in parts of southwestern China and northern Vietnam.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.