Bina language
E619345
Bina language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken in Papua New Guinea, belonging to the Papuan Tip subgroup.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bina language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6786872 — 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: Bina language Context triple: [Papuan Tip linkage, hasLanguage, Bina language]
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A.
Bini language
Bini language is an Edoid language of southern Nigeria, primarily spoken by the Edo (Bini) people around Benin City.
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B.
Bintauna language
The Bintauna language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bintauna people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Baniwa language
Baniwa is an Arawakan Indigenous language spoken primarily along the Rio Negro in northwestern Brazil, as well as in parts of Colombia and Venezuela.
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D.
Nitinaht language
The Nitinaht language is a Southern Wakashan Indigenous language spoken by the Ditidaht (Nitinaht) people of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
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E.
Bima language
Bima language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, known for its distinct grammar and vocabulary within the region.
- 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: Bina language Target entity description: Bina language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken in Papua New Guinea, belonging to the Papuan Tip subgroup.
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A.
Bini language
Bini language is an Edoid language of southern Nigeria, primarily spoken by the Edo (Bini) people around Benin City.
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B.
Bintauna language
The Bintauna language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bintauna people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Baniwa language
Baniwa is an Arawakan Indigenous language spoken primarily along the Rio Negro in northwestern Brazil, as well as in parts of Colombia and Venezuela.
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D.
Nitinaht language
The Nitinaht language is a Southern Wakashan Indigenous language spoken by the Ditidaht (Nitinaht) people of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
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E.
Bima language
Bima language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, known for its distinct grammar and vocabulary within the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Papuan Tip language ⓘ extinct language ⓘ |
| classification | Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Oceanic > Western Oceanic > Papuan Tip ⓘ |
| continent | Oceania ⓘ |
| country | Papua New Guinea ⓘ |
| endangeredStatusBeforeExtinction | severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnologueCode | bmn ⓘ |
| extinction | 20th century ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | southeastern Papua New Guinea ⓘ |
| glottologCode | bina1272 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Bina (Papua New Guinea) ⓘ |
| hasDescendantLanguage | none ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | bmn ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageShiftTo |
English
ⓘ
Tok Pisin ⓘ neighboring Papuan Tip languages ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Papuan Tip area ⓘ |
| macroArea | Papunesia ⓘ |
| region |
Papuan Peninsula
ⓘ
linked to:
Papuan Tip of New Guinea
|
| spokenIn | Papua New Guinea ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| subgroup |
Oceanic languages
ⓘ
Papuan Tip languages ⓘ Western Oceanic languages ⓘ |
| typologicalArea | Papuan Tip linkage ⓘ |
| 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: Bina language Description of subject: Bina language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken in Papua New Guinea, belonging to the Papuan Tip subgroup.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.