Cari language
E1031771
The Cari language is an extinct Great Andamanese language once spoken by the Cari (Kare) people of North Andaman Island in India.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cari language canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13276351 — 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: Cari language Context triple: [Kare, alternateNameOf, Cari language]
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A.
Carijona language
The Carijona language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Carijona people of Colombia, now highly endangered with only a small number of elderly speakers remaining.
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B.
Cabiyari language
The Cabiyari language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Cabiyari people of the northwestern Amazon region.
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C.
Karkin language
The Karkin language is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
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D.
Karao language
The Karao language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Karao people in the Cordillera region of northern Luzon in the Philippines.
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E.
Cabécar language
The Cabécar language is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken by the Cabécar people of Costa Rica, known for its complex grammar and status as one of the country’s most vital native languages.
- 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: Cari language Target entity description: The Cari language is an extinct Great Andamanese language once spoken by the Cari (Kare) people of North Andaman Island in India.
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A.
Carijona language
The Carijona language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Carijona people of Colombia, now highly endangered with only a small number of elderly speakers remaining.
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B.
Cabiyari language
The Cabiyari language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Cabiyari people of the northwestern Amazon region.
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C.
Karkin language
The Karkin language is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
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D.
Karao language
The Karao language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Karao people in the Cordillera region of northern Luzon in the Philippines.
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E.
Cabécar language
The Cabécar language is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken by the Cabécar people of Costa Rica, known for its complex grammar and status as one of the country’s most vital native languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Great Andamanese language
ⓘ
extinct language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Kare language
ⓘ
Kari language ⓘ
linked to:
Kari’ña language
|
| associatedWith | Andamanese indigenous peoples ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Andamanese languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Andamanese
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | extinct language ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Cari people
ⓘ
Kare people ⓘ |
| glottologCode | cari1271 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Cari ⓘ |
| hasDocumentation | limited linguistic documentation ⓘ |
| hasExtinctionCause | language shift to other Great Andamanese varieties and to Hindi ⓘ |
| hasLanguageCodeType | ISO 639-3 ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
noun class system based on body parts
ⓘ
prefixing morphology ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasPhylumStatus | language isolate family (Great Andamanese) ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | caq ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Great Andamanese ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | extinct by late 20th century ⓘ |
| partOf |
Northern Great Andamanese subgroup
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Andamanese languages
|
| region | Bay of Bengal ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Cari people
ⓘ
Kare people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Andaman Islands
ⓘ
India ⓘ North Andaman Island ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| usedBy | small hunter-gatherer community ⓘ |
| writingSystem | no indigenous writing system ⓘ |
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: Cari language Description of subject: The Cari language is an extinct Great Andamanese language once spoken by the Cari (Kare) people of North Andaman Island in India.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.