Tae’ language
E641245
The Tae’ language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tae’ ethnic group in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Taeʼ language | 1 |
| Tae’ language canonical | 1 |
| Taʼe language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7081720 — 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: Tae’ language Context triple: [Sulawesi languages, include, Tae’ language]
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A.
Takia language
The Takia language is an Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea, spoken primarily on Karkar Island and nearby coastal areas of Madang Province.
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B.
Tigak language
The Tigak language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tigak people of New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea.
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C.
Tyap language
Tyap language is a Plateau language of the Niger-Congo family spoken predominantly by the Atyap people in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.
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D.
Tanema language
Tanema is a nearly extinct Oceanic language once spoken on Vanikoro Island in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands.
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E.
Semai language
The Semai language is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Semai people, an indigenous Orang Asli group in Peninsular Malaysia.
- 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: Tae’ language Target entity description: The Tae’ language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tae’ ethnic group in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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A.
Takia language
The Takia language is an Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea, spoken primarily on Karkar Island and nearby coastal areas of Madang Province.
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B.
Tigak language
The Tigak language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tigak people of New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea.
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C.
Tyap language
Tyap language is a Plateau language of the Niger-Congo family spoken predominantly by the Atyap people in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.
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D.
Tanema language
Tanema is a nearly extinct Oceanic language once spoken on Vanikoro Island in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands.
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E.
Semai language
The Semai language is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Semai people, an indigenous Orang Asli group in Peninsular Malaysia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | South Sulawesi subgroup of Austronesian ⓘ |
| branch | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Bugis language
ⓘ
linked to:
Buginese language
Makassarese language ⓘ Toraja-Sa’dan language ⓘ
linked to:
Toraja-Saʼdan language
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Tae’ people ⓘ |
| family | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Basa Tae’
ⓘ
Tae ⓘ Tae’ (South Sulawesi) ⓘ |
| hasDialects | various local village dialects ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | prefixing and suffixing ⓘ |
| hasSpeakers | Tae’ ethnic group in South Sulawesi ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | flexible word order ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | rob ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | descriptive linguistic studies on South Sulawesi languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| linguisticArea | Sulawesi linguistic area ⓘ |
| phonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length not prominent
ⓘ
simple consonant inventory typical of South Sulawesi languages ⓘ |
| region |
Sulawesi
ⓘ
linked to:
Celebes
|
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
South Sulawesi ⓘ |
| status | regional language in Indonesia ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | South Sulawesi languages ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
verb–initial tendencies ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication within Tae’ communities
ⓘ
local cultural practices ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ |
| 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: Tae’ language Description of subject: The Tae’ language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tae’ ethnic group in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tae’ language
linked to: Tae’ language