Yami (Tao)
E144045
Yami (Tao) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tao people of Orchid Island, Taiwan, known for its distinct phonology and close relation to the Batanic languages of the Philippines.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yami | 4 |
| Yami (Tao) canonical | 3 |
| Tao | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1252034 — 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: Yami (Tao) Context triple: [Batanic languages, hasMember, Yami (Tao)]
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A.
Yamate
Yamate is a historic hillside district in Yokohama known for its Western-style residences, foreign settlers’ heritage, and scenic views over the city and harbor.
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B.
Mazu
Mazu is a revered Chinese sea goddess and patron deity of sailors and coastal communities, especially venerated in southern China and Taiwan.
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C.
Yama
Yama is the Hindu god of death and justice, traditionally regarded as the ruler of the afterlife and judge of the souls of the dead.
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D.
Dadu
Dadu was the Yuan dynasty capital city established by Kublai Khan on the site of present-day Beijing, serving as the political and cultural center of his empire.
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E.
Junya
"Junya" is a track from Kanye West's album *Donda*, notable for its hard-hitting production and collaboration with rapper Playboi Carti.
- 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: Yami (Tao) Target entity description: Yami (Tao) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tao people of Orchid Island, Taiwan, known for its distinct phonology and close relation to the Batanic languages of the Philippines.
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A.
Yamate
Yamate is a historic hillside district in Yokohama known for its Western-style residences, foreign settlers’ heritage, and scenic views over the city and harbor.
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B.
Mazu
Mazu is a revered Chinese sea goddess and patron deity of sailors and coastal communities, especially venerated in southern China and Taiwan.
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C.
Yama
Yama is the Hindu god of death and justice, traditionally regarded as the ruler of the afterlife and judge of the souls of the dead.
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D.
Dadu
Dadu was the Yuan dynasty capital city established by Kublai Khan on the site of present-day Beijing, serving as the political and cultural center of his empire.
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E.
Junya
"Junya" is a track from Kanye West's album *Donda*, notable for its hard-hitting production and collaboration with rapper Playboi Carti.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Lan Yu Yami
ⓘ
Thao language ⓘ
surface form:
Tao language
Yami (Tao) ⓘ
surface form:
Yami
|
| associatedEthnicity | Tao ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Pacific ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Itbayat language
ⓘ
Ivatan language ⓘ |
| country |
Republic of China
ⓘ
surface form:
Republic of China (Taiwan)
|
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| glottocode | yami1235 ⓘ |
| hasBasicWordOrder | Austronesian alignment patterns ⓘ |
| hasDistinctiveFeature |
distinct phonology
ⓘ
influence from Batanic languages ⓘ |
| hasLexicalSimilarityWith |
Itbayat
ⓘ
Ivatan people ⓘ
surface form:
Ivatan
|
| hasLinguisticArea |
Batanes Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Batanes–Orchid Island area
|
| hasMorphologicalType | predominantly agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
Austronesian-type vowel system
ⓘ
contrastive stops and fricatives ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerPopulation | a few thousand speakers ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | tao ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageShiftPressureFrom |
Mandarin Chinese
ⓘ
Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
surface form:
Taiwanese Southern Min
|
| neighboringLanguages |
Mandarin Chinese
ⓘ
Taiwanese Southern Min ⓘ |
| partOf | Batanic subgroup of Austronesian ⓘ |
| primaryLocation |
Orchid Island
ⓘ
surface form:
Orchid Island (Lanyu)
|
| region |
Taitung County
ⓘ
surface form:
Lanyu Township
|
| spokenBy | Tao people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Orchid Island
ⓘ
Taiwan, Province of China ⓘ
surface form:
Taiwan
|
| subfamily | Batanic languages ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
comparative Austronesian research
ⓘ
descriptive grammars ⓘ phonological studies ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication among Tao people
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ ritual speech ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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: Yami (Tao) Description of subject: Yami (Tao) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tao people of Orchid Island, Taiwan, known for its distinct phonology and close relation to the Batanic languages of the Philippines.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yami
this entity surface form:
Tao
this entity surface form:
Yami
this entity surface form:
Yami
this entity surface form:
Yami