Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages
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Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages are a major subgroup of the Austronesian language family comprising numerous related languages spoken across much of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian (in some classifications) | 1 |
| Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6243986 — 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: Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages Context triple: [Bungku–Tolaki languages, higherClassification, Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages]
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A.
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian is the reconstructed ancestral language from which the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family is believed to have descended.
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B.
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages are a major branch of the Austronesian language family spoken across Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and the Pacific, including languages such as Indonesian, Tagalog, Javanese, and Malagasy.
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C.
Western Malayo-Polynesian languages
Western Malayo-Polynesian languages are a major subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in western Island Southeast Asia and parts of mainland Asia, including languages such as Tagalog, Javanese, and Malay.
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D.
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages are a major branch of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in eastern Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
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E.
Central Malayo-Polynesian languages
The Central Malayo-Polynesian languages are a proposed group of Austronesian languages spoken mainly in eastern Indonesia, characterized by shared phonological and grammatical innovations that distinguish them from neighboring Malayo-Polynesian branches.
- 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: Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages Target entity description: Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages are a major subgroup of the Austronesian language family comprising numerous related languages spoken across much of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
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A.
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian is the reconstructed ancestral language from which the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family is believed to have descended.
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B.
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages are a major branch of the Austronesian language family spoken across Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and the Pacific, including languages such as Indonesian, Tagalog, Javanese, and Malagasy.
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C.
Western Malayo-Polynesian languages
Western Malayo-Polynesian languages are a major subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in western Island Southeast Asia and parts of mainland Asia, including languages such as Tagalog, Javanese, and Malay.
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D.
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages are a major branch of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in eastern Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
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E.
Central Malayo-Polynesian languages
The Central Malayo-Polynesian languages are a proposed group of Austronesian languages spoken mainly in eastern Indonesia, characterized by shared phonological and grammatical innovations that distinguish them from neighboring Malayo-Polynesian branches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language subgroup
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language subgroup ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Nuclear MP
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Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | Austronesian linguistics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasApproximateNumberOfLanguages | hundreds ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
shared lexical innovations relative to other Austronesian branches
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shared morphological innovations relative to other Austronesian branches ⓘ shared phonological innovations relative to other Austronesian branches ⓘ |
| hasGeographicDistribution |
Brunei
NERFINISHED
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East Timor NERFINISHED ⓘ Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ Island Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Malaysia NERFINISHED ⓘ Micronesia NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ parts of Melanesia ⓘ parts of Polynesia ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Balinese language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bikol languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Buginese language ⓘ Cebuano language NERFINISHED ⓘ Chamorro language NERFINISHED ⓘ Fijian language NERFINISHED ⓘ Hawaiian language NERFINISHED ⓘ Ilocano language NERFINISHED ⓘ Indonesian language NERFINISHED ⓘ Javanese language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kiribati language NERFINISHED ⓘ Madurese language NERFINISHED ⓘ Makassarese language NERFINISHED ⓘ Malay language NERFINISHED ⓘ Maori language NERFINISHED ⓘ Marshallese language ⓘ Palauan language NERFINISHED ⓘ Samoan language NERFINISHED ⓘ Standard Malay NERFINISHED ⓘ Sundanese language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tagalog language ⓘ Tahitian language ⓘ Tongan language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProtoLanguage | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStatus | widely spoken subgroup of Austronesian ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup |
Bima–Lembata languages
NERFINISHED
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Celebic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Central Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Flores–Lembata languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Oceanic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Philippine languages ⓘ South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages NERFINISHED ⓘ South Sulawesi languages ⓘ Timor–Babar languages ⓘ |
| hasTemporalOrigin | prehistory of Island Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | Latin script (for many member languages) ⓘ |
| isDefinedBy | comparative-historical linguistics ⓘ |
| partOf | Austronesian language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages Description of subject: Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages are a major subgroup of the Austronesian language family comprising numerous related languages spoken across much of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian (in some classifications)