Meyah language
E612108
The Meyah language is a Papuan language spoken by the Meyah people of the Bird’s Head Peninsula in West Papua, Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meyah language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6684107 — 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: Meyah language Context triple: [Tanimbar languages, hasMember, Meyah language]
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A.
Tamyen language
The Tamyen language is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the Santa Clara Valley region of California.
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B.
Amuesha language
The Amuesha language, also known as Yanesha', is an Arawakan language spoken by the Yanesha' people of the central Peruvian Amazon.
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C.
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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D.
Mehináku language
The Mehináku language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Mehinaku people of Brazil’s Upper Xingu region in the Amazon.
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E.
Miyako language
The Miyako language is a Southern Ryukyuan language of Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture, spoken primarily on the Miyako Islands and noted for its distinct phonology and endangered status.
- 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: Meyah language Target entity description: The Meyah language is a Papuan language spoken by the Meyah people of the Bird’s Head Peninsula in West Papua, Indonesia.
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A.
Tamyen language
The Tamyen language is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the Santa Clara Valley region of California.
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B.
Amuesha language
The Amuesha language, also known as Yanesha', is an Arawakan language spoken by the Yanesha' people of the central Peruvian Amazon.
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C.
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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D.
Mehináku language
The Mehináku language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Mehinaku people of Brazil’s Upper Xingu region in the Amazon.
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E.
Miyako language
The Miyako language is a Southern Ryukyuan language of Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture, spoken primarily on the Miyako Islands and noted for its distinct phonology and endangered status.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Papuan language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Papuan languages of Western New Guinea ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Meyah people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Meah
ⓘ
Meyah ⓘ Meyakh ⓘ Meyakh language ⓘ Meyek ⓘ Meyet ⓘ Meyet language ⓘ Meyet-Meyah ⓘ Meyet-Meyah language ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
daily communication within Meyah communities
ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ traditional culture ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | meya1238 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName |
Meyah
ⓘ
linked to:
Meyet-Meyah
|
| hasLinguisticArea | Bird’s Head linguistic area ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticClassificationStatus | well-attested in descriptive linguistics literature ⓘ |
| hasMorphology | agglutinative morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonologyFeature | contrastive tone (reported for some varieties) ⓘ |
| hasSourceLanguageForLoanwords |
Indonesian
ⓘ
Malay ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity | rural villages in Bird’s Head Peninsula ⓘ |
| hasTypology | SOV word order (subject–object–verb) ⓘ |
| hasUsageTrend | shifting toward Indonesian among younger speakers ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | mej ⓘ |
| isSpokenBy | indigenous people of Bird’s Head Peninsula ⓘ |
| languageFamily | East Bird’s Head family ⓘ |
| languageStatus | minority language ⓘ |
| macroArea | Papunesia ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Hatam language
ⓘ
Manikion language ⓘ Sougb language ⓘ |
| region | Papua ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Bird’s Head Peninsula
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ West Papua ⓘ |
| subclassOf | East Bird’s Head language ⓘ |
| 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: Meyah language Description of subject: The Meyah language is a Papuan language spoken by the Meyah people of the Bird’s Head Peninsula in West Papua, Indonesia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.