Proto-Tai
E1033829
Proto-Tai is the reconstructed common ancestor language of the Tai language family, from which modern Tai languages such as Thai and Lao ultimately developed.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Proto-Tai canonical | 9 |
| Proto-Tai language | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13299541 — 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: Proto-Tai Context triple: [Central Tai, hasAncestor, Proto-Tai]
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A.
Proto-Austro-Tai
Proto-Austro-Tai is a hypothetical ancestral language proposed to underlie both the Austronesian and Tai-Kadai language families within the Austro-Tai hypothesis.
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B.
Proto-Nahuan
Proto-Nahuan is the reconstructed common ancestor language of the Nahuan (including Nahuatl) language family of Mesoamerica.
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C.
Proto-Tungusic
Proto-Tungusic is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Tungusic language family, from which languages like Hezhen are believed to have descended.
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D.
Proto-Tongic
Proto-Tongic is the hypothesized ancestral language from which the modern Tongic languages, such as Tongan and Niuean, are believed to have descended.
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E.
Proto-Austroasiatic
Proto-Austroasiatic is the hypothesized common ancestor language from which all modern Austroasiatic languages, such as Khmer, Vietnamese, and Mon, are believed to have descended.
- 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: Proto-Tai Target entity description: Proto-Tai is the reconstructed common ancestor language of the Tai language family, from which modern Tai languages such as Thai and Lao ultimately developed.
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A.
Proto-Austro-Tai
Proto-Austro-Tai is a hypothetical ancestral language proposed to underlie both the Austronesian and Tai-Kadai language families within the Austro-Tai hypothesis.
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B.
Proto-Nahuan
Proto-Nahuan is the reconstructed common ancestor language of the Nahuan (including Nahuatl) language family of Mesoamerica.
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C.
Proto-Tungusic
Proto-Tungusic is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Tungusic language family, from which languages like Hezhen are believed to have descended.
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D.
Proto-Tongic
Proto-Tongic is the hypothesized ancestral language from which the modern Tongic languages, such as Tongan and Niuean, are believed to have descended.
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E.
Proto-Austroasiatic
Proto-Austroasiatic is the hypothesized common ancestor language from which all modern Austroasiatic languages, such as Khmer, Vietnamese, and Mon, are believed to have descended.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kra–Dai proto-language
ⓘ
Tai language ⓘ proto-language ⓘ reconstructed language ⓘ |
| belongsToLanguageFamily |
Kra–Dai language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Tai–Kadai languages
Tai language family ⓘ |
| hasApproximateEra | late 1st millennium BCE to early 1st millennium CE ⓘ |
| hasAttestationStatus |
reconstructed
ⓘ
unattested ⓘ |
| hasDescendantGroup |
Central Tai
ⓘ
Northern Tai ⓘ Southwestern Tai ⓘ |
| hasLexicalInfluenceOn |
Lao basic vocabulary
ⓘ
Thai basic vocabulary ⓘ Zhuang basic vocabulary ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
isolating morphology
ⓘ
little inflection ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tones
ⓘ
final glottal stop *-ʔ ⓘ final nasals *-m *-n *-ŋ ⓘ final stops *-p *-t *-k ⓘ medial glides ⓘ tonal language ⓘ voicing contrast in initial consonants ⓘ |
| hasReconstructionBasis |
ancient Chinese transcriptions of Tai names
ⓘ
modern Tai languages ⓘ |
| hasReconstructionMethod | comparative method ⓘ |
| hasRegion |
mainland Southeast Asia
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northern mainland Southeast Asia ⓘ southern China ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature |
basic SVO word order
ⓘ
post-nominal numerals ⓘ use of classifiers ⓘ |
| hasTimePeriod | prehistory ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | none ⓘ |
| isAncestorOf |
Ahom language
ⓘ
Central Tai languages ⓘ Isan language ⓘ
linked to:
Isan
Lao language ⓘ
linked to:
Lao
Northern Tai languages ⓘ Shan language ⓘ Southwestern Tai languages ⓘ
linked to:
Southwestern Tai
Tai Dam language ⓘ Tai Dón language ⓘ Tai Lü language ⓘ Tai Nüa language ⓘ Tai Ya language ⓘ Thai language ⓘ Zhuang languages ⓘ
linked to:
Zhuang language
|
| studiedInField |
comparative Tai linguistics
ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ |
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: Proto-Tai Description of subject: Proto-Tai is the reconstructed common ancestor language of the Tai language family, from which modern Tai languages such as Thai and Lao ultimately developed.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Proto-Tai
linked to: Proto-Tai
linked to: Proto-Tai
linked to: Proto-Tai
linked to: Proto-Tai
linked to: Proto-Tai
linked to: Proto-Tai