Modang language
E534742
The Modang language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Modang people of Borneo, primarily in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modang language canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5615530 — 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: Modang language Context triple: [Kayanic languages, hasMember, Modang language]
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A.
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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B.
Jangil language
The Jangil language is an extinct and poorly documented Ongan language once spoken by the Jangil (Rutland Island) people of the Andaman Islands in India.
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C.
Amdang language
The Amdang language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily in eastern Chad and western Sudan, closely associated with the Fur people and region.
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D.
Semai language
The Semai language is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Semai people, an indigenous Orang Asli group in Peninsular Malaysia.
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E.
Tai Khamyang language
The Tai Khamyang language is an endangered Southwestern Tai language spoken by the Khamyang ethnic community in parts of Northeast India, notable for its close relation to other Tai languages of the region and its ongoing revitalization efforts.
- 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: Modang language Target entity description: The Modang language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Modang people of Borneo, primarily in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
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A.
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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B.
Jangil language
The Jangil language is an extinct and poorly documented Ongan language once spoken by the Jangil (Rutland Island) people of the Andaman Islands in India.
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C.
Amdang language
The Amdang language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily in eastern Chad and western Sudan, closely associated with the Fur people and region.
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D.
Semai language
The Semai language is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Semai people, an indigenous Orang Asli group in Peninsular Malaysia.
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E.
Tai Khamyang language
The Tai Khamyang language is an endangered Southwestern Tai language spoken by the Khamyang ethnic community in parts of Northeast India, notable for its close relation to other Tai languages of the region and its ongoing revitalization efforts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroarea | Papunesia ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Modang people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Kutai Modang
ⓘ
Modang ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | moda1244 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Modang ⓘ |
| hasLanguageStatus | threatened ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryDomain | home and community ⓘ |
| hasTypology | SVO word order ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | mxd ⓘ |
| isRelatedTo | other East Barito languages ⓘ |
| isSpokenPrimarilyIn | East Kalimantan ⓘ |
| isSubjectTo | language shift to Indonesian ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Borneo ⓘ |
| region | Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Modang people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Borneo
ⓘ
East Kalimantan ⓘ Indonesia ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| usedFor | oral communication ⓘ |
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: Modang language Description of subject: The Modang language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Modang people of Borneo, primarily in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.