Maba language
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The Maba language is an Austronesian language spoken in eastern Indonesia, particularly in the Halmahera region of North Maluku.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maba language canonical | 2 |
| Maba (Austronesian) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7823206 — 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: Maba language Context triple: [South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages, hasMember, Maba language]
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A.
Maba language
The Maba language is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken primarily by the Maba people in eastern Chad and neighboring regions.
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B.
Mambae language
The Mambae language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in East Timor, notable for its role in local identity and traditional culture.
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C.
Mba languages
Mba languages are a small group of closely related Adamawa–Ubangi (Niger–Congo) languages spoken primarily in the Central African Republic and neighboring regions.
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D.
Maban languages
Maban languages are a small group of closely related Nilo-Saharan languages spoken primarily in eastern Chad and western Sudan.
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E.
Makira languages
The Makira languages are a group of closely related Oceanic languages spoken primarily on Makira (San Cristobal) and nearby islands in the Solomon Islands.
- 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: Maba language Target entity description: The Maba language is an Austronesian language spoken in eastern Indonesia, particularly in the Halmahera region of North Maluku.
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A.
Maba language
The Maba language is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken primarily by the Maba people in eastern Chad and neighboring regions.
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B.
Mambae language
The Mambae language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in East Timor, notable for its role in local identity and traditional culture.
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C.
Mba languages
Mba languages are a small group of closely related Adamawa–Ubangi (Niger–Congo) languages spoken primarily in the Central African Republic and neighboring regions.
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D.
Maban languages
Maban languages are a small group of closely related Nilo-Saharan languages spoken primarily in eastern Chad and western Sudan.
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E.
Makira languages
The Makira languages are a group of closely related Oceanic languages spoken primarily on Makira (San Cristobal) and nearby islands in the Solomon Islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Regency of East Halmahera ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Maba people (Halmahera)
ⓘ
linked to:
Maluku peoples
|
| family | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
coastal areas of East Halmahera
ⓘ
villages in North Maluku ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Baba
ⓘ
Maba (Austronesian) ⓘ
linked to:
Maba language
|
| hasGlottocode | maba1277 ⓘ |
| isDistinctFrom |
Maba language (Chad-Sudan)
ⓘ
linked to:
Maba language
Maba language (Nilo-Saharan) ⓘ
linked to:
Maba language
|
| ISO639-3 | mqa ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
Malayo-Polynesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Malayo-Polynesian languages
|
| languageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| linguisticTypology | SVO word order (subject–verb–object) ⓘ |
| macroArea | Papunesia ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguages |
Galela language
ⓘ
Ternate language ⓘ Tidore language ⓘ Tobelo language ⓘ |
| region |
Halmahera
ⓘ
North Maluku ⓘ
linked to:
North Maluku Province
eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Halmahera Island
ⓘ
linked to:
Halmahera
North Maluku province ⓘ
linked to:
North Maluku Province
|
| status | minority language in Indonesia ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
|
| usedIn | daily communication among Maba people ⓘ |
| 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: Maba language Description of subject: The Maba language is an Austronesian language spoken in eastern Indonesia, particularly in the Halmahera region of North Maluku.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Maba language