Nage language
E682545
The Nage language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Nage people of central Flores in Indonesia, noted for its complex verbal morphology and close relation to neighboring Central Flores languages.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nage language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7713317 — 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: Nage language Context triple: [Keo language, closelyRelatedTo, Nage language]
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A.
Nafe (Nguna) language
The Nafe (Nguna) language is an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken on Nguna Island and nearby areas in central Vanuatu.
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B.
Isnag language
The Isnag language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Isnag people in the northern Cordillera region of Luzon in the Philippines.
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C.
Nawat language
The Nawat language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language of western El Salvador, historically spoken by the Pipil people and now critically endangered.
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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.
Nanggu language
The Nanggu language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands, known for its role in the highly diverse Temotu linguistic subgroup.
- 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: Nage language Target entity description: The Nage language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Nage people of central Flores in Indonesia, noted for its complex verbal morphology and close relation to neighboring Central Flores languages.
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A.
Nafe (Nguna) language
The Nafe (Nguna) language is an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken on Nguna Island and nearby areas in central Vanuatu.
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B.
Isnag language
The Isnag language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Isnag people in the northern Cordillera region of Luzon in the Philippines.
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C.
Nawat language
The Nawat language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language of western El Salvador, historically spoken by the Pipil people and now critically endangered.
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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.
Nanggu language
The Nanggu language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands, known for its role in the highly diverse Temotu linguistic subgroup.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Central Flores languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ende language ⓘ Keo language ⓘ Lio language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Nage people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDomain | Austronesian linguistics ⓘ |
| hasFeature | complex verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticArea | Central Flores linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions)
ⓘ
prenasalized stops (reported in some descriptions) ⓘ |
| hasResearcher |
Alexander Adelaar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
R. H. Barnes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | nxe ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East Nusa Tenggara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lesser Sunda Islands ⓘ |
| region | Central Flores NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Nage people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Flores
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ central Flores ⓘ |
| subfamily | Central Flores languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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: Nage language Description of subject: The Nage language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Nage people of central Flores in Indonesia, noted for its complex verbal morphology and close relation to neighboring Central Flores languages.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.