Namuyi language
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The Namuyi language is a lesser-known Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Namuyi people in parts of Sichuan and Yunnan in southwestern China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Namuyi language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6060720 — 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: Namuyi language Context triple: [Qiangic languages, hasSubgroup, Namuyi 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.
Muya language
The Muya language is a lesser-known Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Muya people in parts of Sichuan, China, noted for its complex phonology and endangered status.
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C.
Kuanyama language
The Kuanyama language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in northern Namibia and southern Angola, recognized as a standardized variety of Ovambo and used in education, media, and religious contexts.
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D.
Tontemboan language
The Tontemboan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tontemboan people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is one of the traditional Minahasan languages of the region.
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E.
Sanglechi language
The Sanglechi language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by a small community in the Sanglech Valley region of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
- 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: Namuyi language Target entity description: The Namuyi language is a lesser-known Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Namuyi people in parts of Sichuan and Yunnan in southwestern China.
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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.
Muya language
The Muya language is a lesser-known Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Muya people in parts of Sichuan, China, noted for its complex phonology and endangered status.
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C.
Kuanyama language
The Kuanyama language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in northern Namibia and southern Angola, recognized as a standardized variety of Ovambo and used in education, media, and religious contexts.
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D.
Tontemboan language
The Tontemboan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tontemboan people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is one of the traditional Minahasan languages of the region.
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E.
Sanglechi language
The Sanglechi language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by a small community in the Sanglech Valley region of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Qiangic language
ⓘ
Sino-Tibetan language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Namuyi
ⓘ
Namuzi ⓘ Namuziyu ⓘ
linked to:
Namuzi
|
| basicWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Prinmi language
ⓘ
Qiang language ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | definitely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Namuyi people ⓘ |
| glottocode | namu1242 ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
northern Namuyi
ⓘ
southern Namuyi ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResearchOn |
morphology
ⓘ
phonology ⓘ syntax ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
Chinese
ⓘ
Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
suffixing morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
complex consonant inventory
ⓘ
contrastive aspiration ⓘ tone ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | nmy ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Sino-Tibetan
ⓘ
linked to:
Sino-Tibetan languages
|
| languageSubfamily | Qiangic ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Sichuan-Yunnan linguistic area ⓘ |
| primaryContactLanguage | Southwestern Mandarin ⓘ |
| region |
Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture
ⓘ
Mianning County ⓘ Muli Tibetan Autonomous County ⓘ Panzhihua ⓘ Yanyuan County ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Namuyi people ⓘ |
| spokenByChildren | decreasingly ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
China
ⓘ
Sichuan ⓘ
linked to:
Sichuan Province
Yunnan ⓘ
linked to:
Yunnan Province
southwestern China ⓘ |
| status | endangered language ⓘ |
| subjectObjectVerbOrder | yes ⓘ |
| threatenedBy | language shift to Chinese ⓘ |
| usedFor | oral communication ⓘ |
| usedIn |
folk songs
ⓘ
ritual speech ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| writingSystem | no widely used standard writing system ⓘ |
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: Namuyi language Description of subject: The Namuyi language is a lesser-known Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Namuyi people in parts of Sichuan and Yunnan in southwestern China.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.