Murut language
E528642
The Murut language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Murut people of northern Borneo, especially in Sabah, Malaysia, and parts of neighboring regions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Murut language canonical | 2 |
| Tagol Murut language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5575445 — 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: Murut language Context triple: [Bornean languages, includesLanguage, Murut language]
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A.
Murle language
The Murle language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Murle people of South Sudan.
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B.
Mampruli language
Mampruli is a Gur language spoken primarily by the Mamprusi people in northern Ghana and parts of neighboring West African countries.
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C.
Munji language
The Munji language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by the Munji people in Afghanistan’s remote Munjan Valley, closely related to the Yidgha language of Pakistan.
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D.
Mumuye language
The Mumuye language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Mumuye people in northeastern Nigeria.
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E.
Lamaholot language
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
- 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: Murut language Target entity description: The Murut language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Murut people of northern Borneo, especially in Sabah, Malaysia, and parts of neighboring regions.
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A.
Murle language
The Murle language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Murle people of South Sudan.
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B.
Mampruli language
Mampruli is a Gur language spoken primarily by the Mamprusi people in northern Ghana and parts of neighboring West African countries.
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C.
Munji language
The Munji language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by the Munji people in Afghanistan’s remote Munjan Valley, closely related to the Yidgha language of Pakistan.
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D.
Mumuye language
The Mumuye language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Mumuye people in northeastern Nigeria.
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E.
Lamaholot language
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | Murutic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | North Bornean languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Malaysia ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Murut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Austronesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottologCode | muru1265 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Murutic ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Murutic
ⓘ
Murutic language ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Bookan Murut
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Keningau Murut NERFINISHED ⓘ Lundayeh NERFINISHED ⓘ Okolod Murut NERFINISHED ⓘ Paluan Murut NERFINISHED ⓘ Selungai Murut NERFINISHED ⓘ Sembakung Murut NERFINISHED ⓘ Tagol Murut NERFINISHED ⓘ Timugon Murut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Dusun language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lun Bawang language ⓘ Malay language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup |
Eastern Murutic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northern Murutic NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Murutic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
| iso639-3Code | mvv ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| macroArea | Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryArea | interior of Sabah ⓘ |
| region | Borneo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Murut people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Malaysia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sabah NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Borneo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature | verb-initial word order tendency ⓘ |
| usedFor |
oral tradition
ⓘ
storytelling ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ |
| usedIn | traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | alphabet ⓘ |
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: Murut language Description of subject: The Murut language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Murut people of northern Borneo, especially in Sabah, Malaysia, and parts of neighboring regions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tagol Murut language