Ouma language
E619340
Ouma language is an extinct Papuan language once spoken in the Papuan Tip region of southeastern Papua New Guinea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ouma language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6786855 — 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: Ouma language Context triple: [Papuan Tip linkage, hasLanguage, Ouma language]
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A.
Uma language
Uma is an Austronesian language of the Celebic subgroup spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Kumbewaha language
The Kumbewaha language is an Austronesian language spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia, belonging to the Wotu–Wolio subgroup.
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C.
Medumba language
Medumba is a Bantu-related Grassfields language spoken primarily by the Bamileke people in western Cameroon.
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D.
Gurma language
Gurma language is a Gur language spoken primarily in parts of Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, and neighboring West African countries.
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E.
Sanglechi language
The Sanglechi language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by a small community in the Sanglech Valley region of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
- 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: Ouma language Target entity description: Ouma language is an extinct Papuan language once spoken in the Papuan Tip region of southeastern Papua New Guinea.
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A.
Uma language
Uma is an Austronesian language of the Celebic subgroup spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Kumbewaha language
The Kumbewaha language is an Austronesian language spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia, belonging to the Wotu–Wolio subgroup.
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C.
Medumba language
Medumba is a Bantu-related Grassfields language spoken primarily by the Bamileke people in western Cameroon.
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D.
Gurma language
Gurma language is a Gur language spoken primarily in parts of Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, and neighboring West African countries.
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E.
Sanglechi language
The Sanglechi language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by a small community in the Sanglech Valley region of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Papuan language
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extinct language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| continent | Oceania ⓘ |
| country | Papua New Guinea ⓘ |
| extinctionStatus | extinct ⓘ |
| family | Papuan languages ⓘ |
| languageArea | New Guinea ⓘ |
| location | southeastern Papua New Guinea ⓘ |
| region |
Papuan Tip
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linked to:
Papuan Tip cluster
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| spokenIn |
Papuan Tip region
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linked to:
Papuan Tip and North New Guinea contact area
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| status | extinct ⓘ |
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: Ouma language Description of subject: Ouma language is an extinct Papuan language once spoken in the Papuan Tip region of southeastern Papua New Guinea.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.