Great Andamanese languages
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The Great Andamanese languages are a small, nearly extinct group of indigenous languages once spoken by the Great Andamanese peoples of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T640871 — 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: Great Andamanese languages Context triple: [Great Andamanese, languageFamily, Great Andamanese languages]
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A.
Penutian languages
Penutian languages are a proposed family of Native American languages spoken primarily in the western United States, noted for their controversial genetic relationships and inclusion of several distinct regional language groups.
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B.
Taman languages
Taman languages are a small group of closely related Nilo-Saharan languages spoken primarily in eastern Chad and western Sudan.
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C.
Meso-Melanesian languages
The Meso-Melanesian languages are a subgroup of Oceanic Austronesian languages spoken primarily in parts of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
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D.
Aboriginal languages
Aboriginal languages are the diverse Indigenous languages of Australia, spoken by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and forming a key part of the continent’s oldest continuous cultures.
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E.
Batanic languages
Batanic languages are a small subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Batanes Islands of the northern Philippines and parts of Taiwan, known for their unique phonological and lexical features.
- 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: Great Andamanese languages Target entity description: The Great Andamanese languages are a small, nearly extinct group of indigenous languages once spoken by the Great Andamanese peoples of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
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A.
Penutian languages
Penutian languages are a proposed family of Native American languages spoken primarily in the western United States, noted for their controversial genetic relationships and inclusion of several distinct regional language groups.
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B.
Taman languages
Taman languages are a small group of closely related Nilo-Saharan languages spoken primarily in eastern Chad and western Sudan.
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C.
Meso-Melanesian languages
The Meso-Melanesian languages are a subgroup of Oceanic Austronesian languages spoken primarily in parts of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
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D.
Aboriginal languages
Aboriginal languages are the diverse Indigenous languages of Australia, spoken by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and forming a key part of the continent’s oldest continuous cultures.
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E.
Batanic languages
Batanic languages are a small subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Batanes Islands of the northern Philippines and parts of Taiwan, known for their unique phonological and lexical features.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
endangered language family
ⓘ
indigenous language family ⓘ language family ⓘ |
| arealGroup |
Great Andamanese languages
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Andamanese languages
|
| associatedEthnicity |
Great Andamanese
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Andamanese peoples
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| currentSpeakers | very few speakers ⓘ |
| distinctFrom |
Ongan languages
ⓘ
Sentinelese language ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | poorly documented ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus |
critically endangered
ⓘ
nearly extinct ⓘ |
| geneticAffiliation |
language isolate family
ⓘ
not demonstrably related to other language families ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Middle Andaman Island
ⓘ
North Andaman Island ⓘ South Andaman Island ⓘ surrounding smaller islands ⓘ |
| hasMemberLanguage |
Aka-Bale
ⓘ
Aka-Bea ⓘ Aka-Bo ⓘ Aka-Bo ⓘ
surface form:
Aka-Bois
Aka-Bo ⓘ
surface form:
Aka-Bojigyab
Aka-Cari ⓘ Aka-Jeru ⓘ Aka-Kede ⓘ Aka-Kol ⓘ Aka-Kora ⓘ Pucikwar ⓘ
surface form:
Aka-Pucikwar
|
| historicalSpeakers | several thousand people in the 19th century ⓘ |
| languageFamilyOf | Great Andamanese language ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bay of Bengal
ⓘ
surface form:
Bay of Bengal region
|
| macroArea | South Asia ⓘ |
| region |
Andaman Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Andaman archipelago
|
| shiftedTo |
Andaman Hindi
ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Great Andamanese
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Andamanese peoples
|
| spokenIn |
Andaman Islands
ⓘ
India ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
colonial impact
ⓘ
disease ⓘ language shift ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
noun class system based on body parts ⓘ rich prefixation ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Great Andamanese languages Description of subject: The Great Andamanese languages are a small, nearly extinct group of indigenous languages once spoken by the Great Andamanese peoples of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Andamanese languages
subject surface form:
Cari language
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese languages continuum
subject surface form:
Bo (Great Andamanese language)
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese language family
subject surface form:
Bo (Great Andamanese language)
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese linguistic area
subject surface form:
Bo (Great Andamanese language)
this entity surface form:
Andamanese languages
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese language family
this entity surface form:
Andamanese languages
this entity surface form:
Andamanese languages
this entity surface form:
Andamanese languages
this entity surface form:
Andamanese language family
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese language family
this entity surface form:
Andamanese languages
this entity surface form:
Aka-Bo Great Andamanese
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese language group
this entity surface form:
Northern Great Andamanese subgroup
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese language group
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese language group
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese language group