Sui language
E257938
The Sui language is a Tai–Kadai language spoken primarily by the Sui ethnic group in Guizhou and neighboring provinces of southern China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sui language canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2356919 — 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: Sui language Context triple: [Tai–Kadai languages, includesLanguage, Sui language]
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A.
Longgu language
The Longgu language is an Oceanic language spoken by communities in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Southeast Solomonic branch of the Austronesian language family.
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B.
Tujia language
The Tujia language is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily by the Tujia ethnic group in parts of central China, notably in mountainous areas of Hubei, Hunan, and neighboring provinces.
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C.
Luilang language
The Luilang language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by an indigenous Formosan group in northern Taiwan.
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D.
Siwu language
The Siwu language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily in the Volta Region of Ghana by the Mawu people.
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E.
Li language
Li language is an Austroasiatic language (often classified within the Tai–Kadai family) spoken primarily by the Li ethnic group indigenous to China’s Hainan Island.
- 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: Sui language Target entity description: The Sui language is a Tai–Kadai language spoken primarily by the Sui ethnic group in Guizhou and neighboring provinces of southern China.
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A.
Longgu language
The Longgu language is an Oceanic language spoken by communities in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Southeast Solomonic branch of the Austronesian language family.
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B.
Tujia language
The Tujia language is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily by the Tujia ethnic group in parts of central China, notably in mountainous areas of Hubei, Hunan, and neighboring provinces.
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C.
Luilang language
The Luilang language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by an indigenous Formosan group in northern Taiwan.
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D.
Siwu language
The Siwu language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily in the Volta Region of Ghana by the Mawu people.
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E.
Li language
Li language is an Austroasiatic language (often classified within the Tai–Kadai family) spoken primarily by the Li ethnic group indigenous to China’s Hainan Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kra–Dai language
ⓘ
Tai–Kadai language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| autonym |
Sui people
ⓘ
surface form:
Sui
Suijang ⓘ |
| classificationStatus | well-established within Kam–Sui ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Kam language
ⓘ
Maonan language ⓘ Maonan language ⓘ
surface form:
Mulao language
|
| country |
China
ⓘ
surface form:
People's Republic of China
|
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnolinguisticGroup | Sui people of Guizhou ⓘ |
| family |
Tai–Kadai languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Tai–Kadai language family
|
| glottocode | suic1235 ⓘ |
| glottologName |
Sui people
ⓘ
surface form:
Sui
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Shui language
ⓘ
Suihua ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation |
Sui oral literature
ⓘ
Sui traditional festivals ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Pandong Sui
ⓘ
Sandong Sui ⓘ Yang'an Sui ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tones
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | Sui pictographic script ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | swi ⓘ |
| languageFamilyBranch | Kam–Sui ⓘ |
| languagePolicyContext | subject to Chinese minority language policies ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguages |
Bouyei language
ⓘ
Kam language ⓘ Southwestern Mandarin ⓘ |
| primaryEthnicGroup | Sui people ⓘ |
| primaryProvince |
Guizhou Province
ⓘ
surface form:
Guizhou
|
| region | southern China ⓘ |
| script |
Chinese characters
ⓘ
Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
| spokenIn |
China
ⓘ
Guangxi Province ⓘ
surface form:
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
Guizhou Province ⓘ Yunnan Province ⓘ |
| status | minority language in China ⓘ |
| subfamily | Kam–Sui languages ⓘ |
| typology | tonal language ⓘ |
| usedBy | Sui ethnic group ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | limited local education ⓘ |
| usedInMedia | local and community media ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
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: Sui language Description of subject: The Sui language is a Tai–Kadai language spoken primarily by the Sui ethnic group in Guizhou and neighboring provinces of southern China.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.