Ngaju language
E150506
The Ngaju language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Ngaju Dayak people of central Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ngaju language canonical | 4 |
| Ngaju Dayak language | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1204596 — 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: Ngaju language Context triple: [Greater North Borneo languages, hasExampleLanguage, Ngaju language]
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A.
Kalanguya language
The Kalanguya language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalanguya people in the northern Luzon highlands of the Philippines.
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B.
Kedayan language
The Kedayan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Kedayan people of Brunei, Sabah, and parts of Borneo, closely related to Malay and other Greater North Borneo languages.
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C.
Banggai language
The Banggai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Banggai people in the Banggai Islands and nearby coastal areas of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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D.
Banjar language
The Banjar language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Banjar people of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, and is considered a regional variety closely associated with the broader Malay linguistic family.
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E.
Angkola language
Angkola language is an Austronesian language of the Batak group spoken primarily by the Angkola people in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
- 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: Ngaju language Target entity description: The Ngaju language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Ngaju Dayak people of central Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo.
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A.
Kalanguya language
The Kalanguya language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalanguya people in the northern Luzon highlands of the Philippines.
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B.
Kedayan language
The Kedayan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Kedayan people of Brunei, Sabah, and parts of Borneo, closely related to Malay and other Greater North Borneo languages.
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C.
Banggai language
The Banggai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Banggai people in the Banggai Islands and nearby coastal areas of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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D.
Banjar language
The Banjar language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Banjar people of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, and is considered a regional variety closely associated with the broader Malay linguistic family.
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E.
Angkola language
Angkola language is an Austronesian language of the Batak group spoken primarily by the Angkola people in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Dayak peoples
ⓘ
surface form:
Ngaju Dayak people
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Ngaju Dayak
ⓘ
surface form:
Dayak Ngaju
Ngaju language ⓘ
surface form:
Ngaju Dayak language
|
| hasDialects | several local varieties within Central Kalimantan ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | ngaj1238 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Ngaju ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | nij ⓘ |
| hasSpeakers | Ngaju people ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Bornean languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Dayak languages
|
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ Barito languages subgroup ⓘ
surface form:
West Barito languages
|
| primaryRegion | Central Kalimantan ⓘ |
| region |
Borneo
ⓘ
Kalimantan ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Central Kalimantan
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ Kalimantan ⓘ
surface form:
Indonesian Borneo
|
| subgroupOf |
Barito languages subgroup
ⓘ
surface form:
West Barito languages
|
| usedIn |
local administration in parts of Central Kalimantan
ⓘ
traditional rituals of Ngaju Dayak people ⓘ |
| 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: Ngaju language Description of subject: The Ngaju language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Ngaju Dayak people of central Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ngaju Dayak language
this entity surface form:
Ngaju Dayak language