Ngaju
E612417
Ngaju is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Ngaju Dayak people in Central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo in Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ngaju canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6638032 — 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: Ngaju Context triple: [Ngaju language, hasGlottologName, Ngaju]
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A.
Napareuli
Napareuli is a Georgian wine appellation in the Kakheti region, known for producing high-quality wines, particularly from the Saperavi grape.
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B.
Gadjang
Gadjang is an Aboriginal Australian language variety associated with the Worimi people of New South Wales.
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C.
Upangas
Upangas are a group of secondary Jain scriptures that elaborate and supplement the teachings found in the primary Agamas.
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D.
Parji
Parji is a modern Dravidian language spoken in parts of central India, descended from the reconstructed ancestral language Proto-Dravidian.
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E.
Kukawa
Kukawa is a historic town in northeastern Nigeria that once served as the political and cultural center of the Kanuri people and the Bornu Empire.
- 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: Ngaju Target entity description: Ngaju is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Ngaju Dayak people in Central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo in Indonesia.
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A.
Napareuli
Napareuli is a Georgian wine appellation in the Kakheti region, known for producing high-quality wines, particularly from the Saperavi grape.
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B.
Gadjang
Gadjang is an Aboriginal Australian language variety associated with the Worimi people of New South Wales.
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C.
Upangas
Upangas are a group of secondary Jain scriptures that elaborate and supplement the teachings found in the primary Agamas.
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D.
Parji
Parji is a modern Dravidian language spoken in parts of central India, descended from the reconstructed ancestral language Proto-Dravidian.
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E.
Kukawa
Kukawa is a historic town in northeastern Nigeria that once served as the political and cultural center of the Kanuri people and the Bornu Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsToSubgroup | West Barito languages ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Kahayan
ⓘ
Kapuas ⓘ Katingan ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Ngaju people ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | ngaj1238 ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | nij ⓘ |
| hasNativeName |
Bahasa Ngaju
ⓘ
linked to:
Ngaju language
|
| hasRegion |
Kahayan River basin
ⓘ
Kapuas River basin ⓘ
linked to:
Kapuas River
Katingan River basin ⓘ |
| isAlsoKnownAs |
Dayak Ngaju
ⓘ
Ngaju Dayak ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Dayak languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Bornean languages
|
| isSpokenOnIsland | Borneo ⓘ |
| isSpokenPrimarilyBy |
Ngaju Dayak people
ⓘ
linked to:
Dayak peoples
|
| isSpokenPrimarilyIn | Central Kalimantan ⓘ |
| isUsedFor | daily communication among Ngaju Dayak people ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| region | Central Kalimantan ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Ngaju Dayak people
ⓘ
linked to:
Dayak peoples
|
| spokenIn |
Central Kalimantan
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ |
| spokenOn | Borneo ⓘ |
| 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: Ngaju Description of subject: Ngaju is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Ngaju Dayak people in Central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo in Indonesia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.