Adang language
E761540
Adang language is a Papuan language spoken by the Adang people on Alor Island in Indonesia’s Alor archipelago.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adang language canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8837092 — 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: Adang language Context triple: [Alor archipelago, hasLanguage, Adang language]
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A.
Andi language
The Andi language is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Andi people in the western part of Dagestan, Russia.
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B.
Ngaju language
The Ngaju language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Ngaju Dayak people of central Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo.
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C.
Uduk language
The Uduk language is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken primarily by the Uduk people of eastern Sudan and western Ethiopia.
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D.
Damana language
The Damana language is an indigenous Chibchan tongue spoken by the Wiwa people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region in northern Colombia.
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E.
Angkola language
Angkola language is an Austronesian language of the Batak group spoken primarily by the Angkola people in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
- 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: Adang language Target entity description: Adang language is a Papuan language spoken by the Adang people on Alor Island in Indonesia’s Alor archipelago.
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A.
Andi language
The Andi language is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Andi people in the western part of Dagestan, Russia.
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B.
Ngaju language
The Ngaju language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Ngaju Dayak people of central Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo.
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C.
Uduk language
The Uduk language is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken primarily by the Uduk people of eastern Sudan and western Ethiopia.
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D.
Damana language
The Damana language is an indigenous Chibchan tongue spoken by the Wiwa people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region in northern Colombia.
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E.
Angkola language
Angkola language is an Austronesian language of the Batak group spoken primarily by the Angkola people in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Papuan language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| classificationStatus |
Papuan (non-Austronesian)
ⓘ
linked to:
Papuan (non‑Austronesian) languages
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable (reported) ⓘ |
| glottologCode | adan1254 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Adang ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Adang-Reta
ⓘ
linked to:
Adang
Reta-Adang ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Adang
ⓘ
Reta ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Adang people ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
prefixing morphology (reported)
ⓘ
suffixing morphology (reported) ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone (reported)
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory (relative to region) ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature | basic SOV word order (reported for Alor–Pantar) ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | adn ⓘ |
| isSpokenNear |
Abui language
ⓘ
Blagar language ⓘ Kabola language ⓘ Klause language ⓘ |
| languageContactWith |
Alor Malay
ⓘ
Indonesian language ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Alor–Pantar languages
ⓘ
Timor–Alor–Pantar languages ⓘ
linked to:
Alor–Pantar languages
Trans–New Guinea languages ⓘ |
| locatedOn | northwestern Alor Island ⓘ |
| macroArea | Papunesia ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Abui language
ⓘ
Blagar language ⓘ Kabola language ⓘ Teiwa language ⓘ |
| region |
East Nusa Tenggara
ⓘ
Lesser Sunda Islands ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Adang people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Alor Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alor archipelago ⓘ Indonesia ⓘ |
| spokenOn | Alor Island coastal areas (northwest) ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication within Adang communities
ⓘ
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: Adang language Description of subject: Adang language is a Papuan language spoken by the Adang people on Alor Island in Indonesia’s Alor archipelago.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.