Semelai
E783464
Semelai is an Austroasiatic Aslian language spoken by the Semelai indigenous people of Peninsular Malaysia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Semelai canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9192234 — 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: Semelai Context triple: [Aslian, hasLanguage, Semelai]
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A.
Suku
Suku is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Suku people in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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B.
Matehuala
Matehuala is a significant commercial and transportation hub city in the northern part of the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí.
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C.
Butuanon
Butuanon is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the city of Butuan and surrounding areas in northeastern Mindanao in the southern Philippines.
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D.
Votonosi
Votonosi is a small village located in the mountainous Metsovo region of northwestern Greece, known for its traditional Epirus character and natural surroundings.
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E.
Embera
Embera is an Indigenous people of Colombia and Panama known for their distinct languages, traditional riverine communities, and rich artistic and spiritual practices.
- 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: Semelai Target entity description: Semelai is an Austroasiatic Aslian language spoken by the Semelai indigenous people of Peninsular Malaysia.
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A.
Suku
Suku is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Suku people in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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B.
Matehuala
Matehuala is a significant commercial and transportation hub city in the northern part of the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí.
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C.
Butuanon
Butuanon is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the city of Butuan and surrounding areas in northeastern Mindanao in the southern Philippines.
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D.
Votonosi
Votonosi is a small village located in the mountainous Metsovo region of northwestern Greece, known for its traditional Epirus character and natural surroundings.
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E.
Embera
Embera is an Indigenous people of Colombia and Panama known for their distinct languages, traditional riverine communities, and rich artistic and spiritual practices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Aslian language
ⓘ
Austroasiatic language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Malaysia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Semelai people ⓘ |
| family | Austroasiatic ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Bahasa Semelai
ⓘ
linked to:
Semai language
Semelai language ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
glottal stop phoneme ⓘ nasal consonants ⓘ rich vowel inventory ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunityStatus | indigenous people of Malaysia ⓘ |
| hasTypology |
SVO basic word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ |
| indigenousTo |
Peninsular Malaysia
ⓘ
linked to:
West Malaysia
|
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Malaysia ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | sza ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
Aslian comparative studies
ⓘ
Austroasiatic linguistic research ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Mon–Khmer
ⓘ
linked to:
Mon-Khmer
|
| languageFamilyBranch |
Southern Aslian
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Aslian languages
|
| lexicalInfluenceFrom |
Malay
ⓘ
other Aslian languages ⓘ |
| primaryUse | oral communication ⓘ |
| region |
Peninsular Malaysia
ⓘ
linked to:
West Malaysia
|
| spokenBy | Semelai people ⓘ |
| spokenInCommunityType | indigenous communities ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Aslian
ⓘ
linked to:
Aslian languages
|
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ traditional rituals ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Johor
ⓘ
Negeri Sembilan ⓘ Pahang ⓘ Terengganu ⓘ |
| 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: Semelai Description of subject: Semelai is an Austroasiatic Aslian language spoken by the Semelai indigenous people of Peninsular Malaysia.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.