Napu language
E569485
The Napu language is an Austronesian language of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, spoken by the Napu people and classified within the Badaic subgroup.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Napu language canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6098677 — 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: Napu language Context triple: [Badaic languages, hasMember, Napu language]
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A.
Opata language
The Opata language is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Opata people of northern Mexico, particularly in the present-day state of Sonora.
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B.
Nanggu language
The Nanggu language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands, known for its role in the highly diverse Temotu linguistic subgroup.
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C.
Tyap language
Tyap language is a Plateau language of the Niger-Congo family spoken predominantly by the Atyap people in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.
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D.
Nawat language
The Nawat language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language of western El Salvador, historically spoken by the Pipil people and now critically endangered.
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E.
Kapingamarangi language
The Kapingamarangi language is a Polynesian outlier language spoken primarily on Kapingamarangi Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
- 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: Napu language Target entity description: The Napu language is an Austronesian language of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, spoken by the Napu people and classified within the Badaic subgroup.
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A.
Opata language
The Opata language is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Opata people of northern Mexico, particularly in the present-day state of Sonora.
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B.
Nanggu language
The Nanggu language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands, known for its role in the highly diverse Temotu linguistic subgroup.
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C.
Tyap language
Tyap language is a Plateau language of the Niger-Congo family spoken predominantly by the Atyap people in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.
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D.
Nawat language
The Nawat language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language of western El Salvador, historically spoken by the Pipil people and now critically endangered.
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E.
Kapingamarangi language
The Kapingamarangi language is a Polynesian outlier language spoken primarily on Kapingamarangi Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| belongsToBranch | Celebic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Bada language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Behoa language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Napu people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottologReferenceName | Napu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Napu’
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Napu’ language ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Austronesian language
ⓘ
Proto-Badaic language ⓘ Proto-Celebic language NERFINISHED ⓘ Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialects | Napu proper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | napu1241 ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasTypology | SVO word order ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | npy ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageSubgroup | Badaic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC+8 ⓘ |
| region | Napu Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Napu people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Central Sulawesi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Badaic language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ language of Indonesia ⓘ language of Sulawesi ⓘ |
| usedFor | oral communication ⓘ |
| usedIn | Napu traditional culture ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
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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: Napu language Description of subject: The Napu language is an Austronesian language of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, spoken by the Napu people and classified within the Badaic subgroup.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.