Dumi language
E572261
Dumi language is a Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan family spoken by the Dumi people in eastern Nepal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dumi language canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6148347 — 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: Dumi language Context triple: [Kiranti languages, hasMember, Dumi language]
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A.
Baliledu language
The Baliledu language is an Austronesian language of the Bima–Sumba subgroup spoken by a local community in eastern Indonesia.
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B.
Kumzari language
The Kumzari language is an endangered Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Kumzari people in the Musandam Peninsula of Oman.
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C.
Namuyi language
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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D.
Murle language
The Murle language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Murle people of South Sudan.
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E.
Lendu language
The Lendu language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Lendu people in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 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: Dumi language Target entity description: Dumi language is a Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan family spoken by the Dumi people in eastern Nepal.
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A.
Baliledu language
The Baliledu language is an Austronesian language of the Bima–Sumba subgroup spoken by a local community in eastern Indonesia.
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B.
Kumzari language
The Kumzari language is an endangered Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Kumzari people in the Musandam Peninsula of Oman.
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C.
Namuyi language
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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D.
Murle language
The Murle language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Murle people of South Sudan.
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E.
Lendu language
The Lendu language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Lendu people in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kiranti language
ⓘ
Sino-Tibetan language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Dumi Bo’o
ⓘ
Dumi Bo’ong ⓘ Dumi Bo’oŋ ⓘ Dumi Kha ⓘ
linked to:
Dumi Bo’o
Lsi Rai ⓘ Ro’ong ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Nepal ⓘ |
| endangermentCause | language shift to Nepali ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Dumi people ⓘ |
| family |
Sino-Tibetan language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Sino-Tibetan languages
|
| hasDialects | several local varieties in eastern Nepal ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | dus ⓘ |
| languageStatus | endangered language ⓘ |
| linguisticClassification | Sino-Tibetan → Tibeto-Burman → Kiranti → Southern Kiranti (approximate) ⓘ |
| morphology | verb-final with complex verbal morphology (approximate) ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguages | other Kiranti languages of eastern Nepal ⓘ |
| phonology | contrastive tone not generally reported (approximate) ⓘ |
| primaryUse | oral communication ⓘ |
| region | eastern Nepal ⓘ |
| scriptUsage | Devanagari used in educational and religious contexts (approximate) ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Dumi people ⓘ |
| subfamily | Kiranti ⓘ |
| typology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Devanagari script ⓘ |
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: Dumi language Description of subject: Dumi language is a Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan family spoken by the Dumi people in eastern Nepal.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.