Kaili language
E135940
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.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kaili language canonical | 27 |
| Kaili dialect cluster | 2 |
| Kaili Sigi dialect | 1 |
| Kaili dialect continuum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1199508 — 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: Kaili language Context triple: [Celebic languages, hasMember, Kaili language]
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A.
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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B.
Jingpo language
The Jingpo language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Jingpo (Kachin) people in northern Myanmar and adjacent regions of China and India.
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C.
Achuar-Shiwiar language
The Achuar-Shiwiar language is a Jivaroan language spoken by the Achuar and Shiwiar Indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador and Peru.
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D.
Ndyuka language
The Ndyuka language is an English-based creole spoken primarily by the Ndyuka Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana.
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E.
Naxi language
Naxi is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Naxi people in China’s Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, known for its unique pictographic Dongba script and rich oral tradition.
- 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: Kaili language Target entity description: 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.
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A.
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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B.
Jingpo language
The Jingpo language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Jingpo (Kachin) people in northern Myanmar and adjacent regions of China and India.
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C.
Achuar-Shiwiar language
The Achuar-Shiwiar language is a Jivaroan language spoken by the Achuar and Shiwiar Indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador and Peru.
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D.
Ndyuka language
The Ndyuka language is an English-based creole spoken primarily by the Ndyuka Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana.
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E.
Naxi language
Naxi is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Naxi people in China’s Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, known for its unique pictographic Dongba script and rich oral tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Kaili language Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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