Emae
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Emae is an Oceanic language spoken on Emae Island in Vanuatu, closely related to other Central Vanuatu languages.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Emae canonical | 2 |
| Emao | 1 |
| Maa (Emae) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6564593 — 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: Emae Context triple: [Paama, neighboringLanguage, Emae]
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A.
Ema
Ema is a given name used as a variant spelling of Emma in various languages and cultures.
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B.
Uma
Uma is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Mirina
Mirina is a coastal town on the Greek island of Lemnos, serving as its capital and main port in the northern Aegean Sea.
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D.
Tenea
Tenea was an ancient Greek city, traditionally associated with Corinthian colonists and mythic Trojan origins, known from classical sources and archaeological discoveries in the Peloponnese.
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E.
Yahi
The Yahi were a small Native American group from northern California, known for being among the last surviving independent Indigenous peoples in the region and for the story of Ishi, their last known member.
- 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: Emae Target entity description: Emae is an Oceanic language spoken on Emae Island in Vanuatu, closely related to other Central Vanuatu languages.
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A.
Ema
Ema is a given name used as a variant spelling of Emma in various languages and cultures.
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B.
Uma
Uma is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Mirina
Mirina is a coastal town on the Greek island of Lemnos, serving as its capital and main port in the northern Aegean Sea.
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D.
Tenea
Tenea was an ancient Greek city, traditionally associated with Corinthian colonists and mythic Trojan origins, known from classical sources and archaeological discoveries in the Peloponnese.
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E.
Yahi
The Yahi were a small Native American group from northern California, known for being among the last surviving independent Indigenous peoples in the region and for the story of Ishi, their last known member.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Central Vanuatu language ⓘ Oceanic language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Efate languages
ⓘ
Nguna language ⓘ
linked to:
Nafe (Nguna) language
|
| country | Vanuatu ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Central Vanuatu
ⓘ
linked to:
North and Central Vanuatu area
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Maa
ⓘ
Maa (Emae) ⓘ
linked to:
Emae
|
| hasLinguisticResearchOn |
grammar
ⓘ
lexicon ⓘ phonology ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | mmw ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageGroup | Southern Oceanic languages ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | predominantly analytic ⓘ |
| phonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
simple consonant inventory ⓘ |
| region | Shefa Province ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Emae people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Emae Island
ⓘ
Vanuatu ⓘ |
| subfamily | Oceanic languages ⓘ |
| subgroup |
Central Vanuatu languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Vanuatu linguistic area
|
| typologicalFeature | SVO word order ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
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: Emae Description of subject: Emae is an Oceanic language spoken on Emae Island in Vanuatu, closely related to other Central Vanuatu languages.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Emae
linked to: Emae