Semaq Beri language
E783994
Semaq Beri is an Aslian Austroasiatic language spoken by the indigenous Semaq Beri people of Peninsular Malaysia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Semaq Beri language canonical | 4 |
| Semaq (historical or variant label) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9192182 — 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: Semaq Beri language Context triple: [Aslian languages, hasMemberLanguage, Semaq Beri language]
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A.
Siwi language
The Siwi language is a Berber (Amazigh) language spoken by the Siwi people in Egypt’s Siwa Oasis, characterized by significant Arabic influence and its status as one of the easternmost Berber languages.
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B.
Yidgha language
The Yidgha language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken in parts of northeastern Afghanistan, closely related to Munji and noted for preserving archaic features within the Pamir language group.
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C.
Lundayeh language
The Lundayeh language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Lundayeh (Lun Bawang) people of northern Borneo, primarily in parts of Malaysia and Indonesia.
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D.
Khwarshi language
The Khwarshi language is a Northeast Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) language spoken by a small ethnic group in Dagestan, Russia, known for its complex phonology and rich case system.
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E.
Ghomara language
The Ghomara language is a lesser-known Berber language spoken by the Ghomara people in northern Morocco.
- 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: Semaq Beri language Target entity description: Semaq Beri is an Aslian Austroasiatic language spoken by the indigenous Semaq Beri people of Peninsular Malaysia.
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A.
Siwi language
The Siwi language is a Berber (Amazigh) language spoken by the Siwi people in Egypt’s Siwa Oasis, characterized by significant Arabic influence and its status as one of the easternmost Berber languages.
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B.
Yidgha language
The Yidgha language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken in parts of northeastern Afghanistan, closely related to Munji and noted for preserving archaic features within the Pamir language group.
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C.
Lundayeh language
The Lundayeh language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Lundayeh (Lun Bawang) people of northern Borneo, primarily in parts of Malaysia and Indonesia.
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D.
Khwarshi language
The Khwarshi language is a Northeast Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) language spoken by a small ethnic group in Dagestan, Russia, known for its complex phonology and rich case system.
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E.
Ghomara language
The Ghomara language is a lesser-known Berber language spoken by the Ghomara people in northern Morocco.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Aslian language
ⓘ
Austroasiatic language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Semaq Beri’
ⓘ
linked to:
Semaq Beri
Semoq Beri ⓘ Semoq Beri’ ⓘ |
| country | Malaysia ⓘ |
| endangermentCause | language shift to Malay ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Semaq Beri ⓘ |
| family | Austroasiatic ⓘ |
| geneticRelation |
related to Mah Meri language
ⓘ
related to Semelai language ⓘ related to Temiar language ⓘ |
| hasLexicalSource | loanwords from Malay ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
contrastive vowel length ⓘ rich consonant inventory typical of Aslian languages ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
prefixation
ⓘ
suffixation ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
glottal stop phoneme
ⓘ
nasal consonant series ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | szc ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
Southern Aslian
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Aslian languages
|
| languageOf | Orang Asli community ⓘ |
| languageStatus | minority language in Malaysia ⓘ |
| macroArea | Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| region |
Peninsular Malaysia
ⓘ
linked to:
West Malaysia
|
| spokenBy |
Semaq Beri people
ⓘ
small population of speakers ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Kelantan
ⓘ
Pahang ⓘ Terengganu ⓘ |
| status | endangered language ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Aslian branch ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature | SVO basic word order (with variation) ⓘ |
| usedBy | indigenous people of Peninsular Malaysia ⓘ |
| usedIn | 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: Semaq Beri language Description of subject: Semaq Beri is an Aslian Austroasiatic language spoken by the indigenous Semaq Beri people of Peninsular Malaysia.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Semaq Beri language