Kadazan-Dusun
E240765
Kadazan-Dusun are an indigenous ethnic group of Sabah, Malaysia, known for their distinct language, rice-farming traditions, and cultural festivals such as Kaamatan.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kadazan-Dusun canonical | 8 |
| Kadazan | 4 |
| Kadazan-Dusun people | 4 |
| Coastal Kadazan | 1 |
| Kadazan-Dusun peoples | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2155646 — 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: Kadazan-Dusun Context triple: [Labuan, demographicsGroup, Kadazan-Dusun]
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A.
Malay peoples
The Malay peoples are a diverse group of closely related Austronesian ethnic communities native to the Malay Peninsula, eastern Sumatra, coastal Borneo, and surrounding regions of Southeast Asia, sharing similar languages, cultures, and Islamic heritage.
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B.
Orang Asli
Orang Asli are the indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, comprising diverse ethnic subgroups with distinct languages, cultures, and traditional ways of life.
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C.
Penan
The Penan are an indigenous, traditionally nomadic hunter-gatherer people of the rainforests of Borneo, known for their deep forest knowledge and struggles to protect their ancestral lands from logging.
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D.
Kutai Malay
Kutai Malay is a regional variety of the Malayic language family spoken primarily in the Kutai region of East Kalimantan, Indonesia, with its own distinctive phonological and lexical features.
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E.
Dayak peoples
The Dayak peoples are indigenous ethnic groups of Borneo known for their diverse languages, traditional longhouse communities, and rich animist and later Christian cultural practices.
- 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: Kadazan-Dusun Target entity description: Kadazan-Dusun are an indigenous ethnic group of Sabah, Malaysia, known for their distinct language, rice-farming traditions, and cultural festivals such as Kaamatan.
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A.
Malay peoples
The Malay peoples are a diverse group of closely related Austronesian ethnic communities native to the Malay Peninsula, eastern Sumatra, coastal Borneo, and surrounding regions of Southeast Asia, sharing similar languages, cultures, and Islamic heritage.
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B.
Orang Asli
Orang Asli are the indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, comprising diverse ethnic subgroups with distinct languages, cultures, and traditional ways of life.
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C.
Penan
The Penan are an indigenous, traditionally nomadic hunter-gatherer people of the rainforests of Borneo, known for their deep forest knowledge and struggles to protect their ancestral lands from logging.
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D.
Kutai Malay
Kutai Malay is a regional variety of the Malayic language family spoken primarily in the Kutai region of East Kalimantan, Indonesia, with its own distinctive phonological and lexical features.
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E.
Dayak peoples
The Dayak peoples are indigenous ethnic groups of Borneo known for their diverse languages, traditional longhouse communities, and rich animist and later Christian cultural practices.
- 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: Kadazan-Dusun Description of subject: Kadazan-Dusun are an indigenous ethnic group of Sabah, Malaysia, known for their distinct language, rice-farming traditions, and cultural festivals such as Kaamatan.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kadazan-Dusun people
this entity surface form:
Kadazan-Dusun people
this entity surface form:
Kadazan
this entity surface form:
Coastal Kadazan
this entity surface form:
Kadazan
this entity surface form:
Kadazan-Dusun people
this entity surface form:
Kadazan
this entity surface form:
Kadazan-Dusun people
this entity surface form:
Kadazan