Iban people
E132870
The Iban people are an indigenous Dayak ethnic group of Borneo known for their longhouse communities, rich oral traditions, and history of seafaring and warrior culture.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iban people canonical | 21 |
| Iban | 6 |
| Iban peoples | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1101442 — 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: Iban people Context triple: [Dayak peoples, subgroup, Iban people]
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A.
Dimasa people
The Dimasa people are an indigenous Tibeto-Burman ethnic community of Northeast India, primarily associated with Assam and known for their distinct language, culture, and historical Dimasa kingdom.
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B.
Bubi people
The Bubi people are an indigenous ethnic group of Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea, known for their distinct Bantu language, traditional religious practices, and historical resistance to foreign domination.
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C.
Shuar people
The Shuar people are an Indigenous group of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador and Peru, known for their distinct language, rich warrior traditions, and deep connection to the forest environment.
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D.
Baiga people
The Baiga people are an indigenous Adivasi community of central India known for their shifting cultivation traditions, distinctive body tattoos, and close spiritual relationship with forests.
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E.
Tenggerese people
The Tenggerese people are an indigenous Javanese ethnic group living in the highlands around Mount Bromo in East Java, known for preserving Hindu traditions and distinctive mountain agrarian culture.
- 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: Iban people Target entity description: The Iban people are an indigenous Dayak ethnic group of Borneo known for their longhouse communities, rich oral traditions, and history of seafaring and warrior culture.
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A.
Dimasa people
The Dimasa people are an indigenous Tibeto-Burman ethnic community of Northeast India, primarily associated with Assam and known for their distinct language, culture, and historical Dimasa kingdom.
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B.
Bubi people
The Bubi people are an indigenous ethnic group of Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea, known for their distinct Bantu language, traditional religious practices, and historical resistance to foreign domination.
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C.
Shuar people
The Shuar people are an Indigenous group of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador and Peru, known for their distinct language, rich warrior traditions, and deep connection to the forest environment.
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D.
Baiga people
The Baiga people are an indigenous Adivasi community of central India known for their shifting cultivation traditions, distinctive body tattoos, and close spiritual relationship with forests.
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E.
Tenggerese people
The Tenggerese people are an indigenous Javanese ethnic group living in the highlands around Mount Bromo in East Java, known for preserving Hindu traditions and distinctive mountain agrarian culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dayak people
ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ indigenous people ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country |
Brunei
ⓘ
linked to:
Brunei Darussalam
Indonesia ⓘ Malaysia ⓘ |
| historicalActivity |
migration along rivers
ⓘ
riverine trade ⓘ |
| knownFor |
epic chants
ⓘ
headhunting (historical) ⓘ longhouse architecture ⓘ pua kumbu weaving ⓘ rich oral traditions ⓘ ritual poetry ⓘ seafaring ⓘ tattoo traditions ⓘ warrior culture ⓘ |
| language | Iban language ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageSubfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| mainRegionInIndonesia | West Kalimantan ⓘ |
| mainRegionInMalaysia | Sarawak ⓘ |
| populationConcentration |
rural Sarawak
ⓘ
urban Sarawak towns ⓘ |
| primaryRegion | Borneo ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ traditional Iban religion ⓘ |
| socialOrganization | longhouse community ⓘ |
| traditionalArt |
beadwork
ⓘ
ikat weaving ⓘ woodcarving ⓘ |
| traditionalClothing | pua kumbu textile ⓘ |
| traditionalDance | ngajat dance ⓘ |
| traditionalDwelling | longhouse ⓘ |
| traditionalEconomy |
beadwork
ⓘ
boat building ⓘ fishing ⓘ hunting and gathering ⓘ rice farming ⓘ shifting cultivation ⓘ weaving ⓘ |
| traditionalLaw | adat Iban ⓘ |
| traditionalLeadership | tuai rumah (longhouse chief) ⓘ |
| traditionalMusic |
drum music
ⓘ
gong ensemble ⓘ |
| traditionalReligion |
ancestor worship
ⓘ
animism ⓘ shamanism ⓘ |
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: Iban people Description of subject: The Iban people are an indigenous Dayak ethnic group of Borneo known for their longhouse communities, rich oral traditions, and history of seafaring and warrior culture.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Iban people
linked to: Iban people
linked to: Iban people
subject linked to:
sapeh (lute)
linked to: Iban people
linked to: Iban people
linked to: Iban people
subject linked to:
northern Borneo
linked to: Iban people