Lehali language
E851582
The Lehali language is an Oceanic language spoken by a small community on the Banks Islands in northern Vanuatu.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lehali language canonical | 5 |
| Halia language | 1 |
| Lelepa language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10257810 — 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: Lehali language Context triple: [Banks Islands, hasNotableLanguage, Lehali language]
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A.
Belhare language
The Belhare language is a Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan family spoken by the Belhare community in eastern Nepal.
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B.
Sa’och language
The Sa’och language is an endangered Austroasiatic language spoken by the Sa’och people of Cambodia and Thailand, belonging to the Pearic branch.
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C.
Ahanta language
The Ahanta language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Ahanta people along the coastal region of southwestern Ghana.
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D.
Haliti language
The Haliti language, also known as Paresí, is an Arawakan indigenous language spoken by the Paresí (Haliti) people of Brazil’s Mato Grosso region.
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E.
Kayeli language
The Kayeli language is an Austronesian language once spoken on Buru Island in Indonesia, now critically endangered or possibly extinct.
- 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: Lehali language Target entity description: The Lehali language is an Oceanic language spoken by a small community on the Banks Islands in northern Vanuatu.
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A.
Belhare language
The Belhare language is a Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan family spoken by the Belhare community in eastern Nepal.
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B.
Sa’och language
The Sa’och language is an endangered Austroasiatic language spoken by the Sa’och people of Cambodia and Thailand, belonging to the Pearic branch.
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C.
Ahanta language
The Ahanta language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Ahanta people along the coastal region of southwestern Ghana.
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D.
Haliti language
The Haliti language, also known as Paresí, is an Arawakan indigenous language spoken by the Paresí (Haliti) people of Brazil’s Mato Grosso region.
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E.
Kayeli language
The Kayeli language is an Austronesian language once spoken on Buru Island in Indonesia, now critically endangered or possibly extinct.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Oceanic language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| contactLanguage |
Bislama
ⓘ
English ⓘ French ⓘ |
| country | Vanuatu ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus |
definitely endangered
ⓘ
vulnerable ⓘ |
| glottologName | Lehali ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Lehali
ⓘ
Lohali ⓘ Lohare ⓘ Lohari ⓘ |
| hasClauseStructure | uses preverbal TAM markers ⓘ |
| hasDemonstrativeSystem | three-way spatial distinction ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | leha1245 ⓘ |
| hasLexicalSimilarityWith | other North–Central Vanuatu languages ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticDescriptionBy | Alexandre François ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | moderately analytic ⓘ |
| hasStressPattern | predictable stress ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | tql ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian ⓘ
linked to:
Malayo-Polynesian languages
North–Central Vanuatu ⓘ
linked to:
North and Central Vanuatu area
Oceanic ⓘ Southern Oceanic ⓘ
linked to:
Western Oceanic
|
| locatedOn | Ureparapara Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Lehalurup language
ⓘ
Lemerig language ⓘ Vurës language ⓘ
linked to:
Vurësian
|
| numberOfSpeakers | few hundred ⓘ |
| partOf |
Banks Islands linguistic area
ⓘ
linked to:
Banks Islands
|
| phonologyFeature |
contrast between short and long vowels
ⓘ
small consonant inventory typical of North–Central Vanuatu languages ⓘ |
| region | northern Vanuatu ⓘ |
| riskFactor | shift of younger speakers to Bislama ⓘ |
| spokenBy | small community ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Banks Islands
ⓘ
Ureparapara Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanuatu ⓘ |
| subclassOf | North–Central Vanuatu language ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
SVO basic word order
ⓘ
has dual and plural number in pronouns ⓘ has inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural pronouns ⓘ possessive classifiers for alienable possession ⓘ prepositional language ⓘ uses subject proclitics on verbs ⓘ |
| usedIn |
everyday communication within the local community
ⓘ
traditional oral narratives ⓘ |
| 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: Lehali language Description of subject: The Lehali language is an Oceanic language spoken by a small community on the Banks Islands in northern Vanuatu.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lehali language
linked to: Lehali language