Dehu
E834885
Dehu is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Lifou Island in New Caledonia, where it serves as the traditional language of the indigenous Drehu people.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dehu canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10017731 — 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: Dehu Context triple: [Drehu, hasAlternativeName, Dehu]
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A.
Dehu
Dehu is a pilgrimage town in Maharashtra, India, revered as the birthplace and spiritual center of the 17th-century Marathi saint-poet Tukaram.
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B.
Culsu
Culsu is an Etruscan underworld goddess often associated with gateways, thresholds, and the realm of the dead.
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C.
Tarusa
Tarusa is a small historic town in western Russia known for its scenic location on the Oka River and its associations with Russian artists and writers.
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D.
Ḍogrī
Ḍogrī is the native name of the Dogri language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Jammu region of India.
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E.
Hutaosa
Hutaosa is an alternative or variant form of the ancient Persian female name Atossa, borne by a prominent Achaemenid queen.
- 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: Dehu Target entity description: Dehu is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Lifou Island in New Caledonia, where it serves as the traditional language of the indigenous Drehu people.
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A.
Dehu
Dehu is a pilgrimage town in Maharashtra, India, revered as the birthplace and spiritual center of the 17th-century Marathi saint-poet Tukaram.
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B.
Culsu
Culsu is an Etruscan underworld goddess often associated with gateways, thresholds, and the realm of the dead.
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C.
Tarusa
Tarusa is a small historic town in western Russia known for its scenic location on the Oka River and its associations with Russian artists and writers.
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D.
Ḍogrī
Ḍogrī is the native name of the Dogri language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Jammu region of India.
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E.
Hutaosa
Hutaosa is an alternative or variant form of the ancient Persian female name Atossa, borne by a prominent Achaemenid queen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Kanak language ⓘ Oceanic language ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Drehu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeSpelling | Drehu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCountry | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDomain | indigenous culture of Lifou ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Drehu people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | dreh1237 ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | dhv ⓘ |
| hasLanguageFamily | Austronesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguageFamilyBranch |
Malayo-Polynesian
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southern Oceanic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | mostly analytic ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate | several thousand speakers ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalType | consonant–vowel syllable structure (predominant) ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Loyalty Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStatus |
indigenous language
ⓘ
regional language ⓘ |
| hasSubfamily | Oceanic ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup | Loyalty Islands languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO (subject–verb–object) ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | New Caledonia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRecognizedBy | Académie des Langues Kanak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRelatedTo |
Iaai
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nengone NERFINISHED ⓘ Xârâcùù ⓘ |
| isSpokenPrimarilyOn | Lifou Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isTraditionalLanguageOf | Drehu people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Drehu people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Lifou Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Caledonia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local education (limited)
ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
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: Dehu Description of subject: Dehu is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Lifou Island in New Caledonia, where it serves as the traditional language of the indigenous Drehu people.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.