Nume language
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Nume language is an Oceanic language spoken by a small community on the island of Gaua in the Banks Islands of northern Vanuatu.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nume language canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10257806 — 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: Nume language Context triple: [Banks Islands, hasNotableLanguage, Nume language]
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A.
Numbami language
The Numbami language is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community in Papua New Guinea, known for its distinctive phonology and morphology within the Bel language group.
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B.
Uma language
Uma is an Austronesian language of the Celebic subgroup spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Nembe language
The Nembe language is an Ijoid language spoken primarily by the Nembe people in Bayelsa State in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region.
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D.
Nama language
Nama language is a Khoe (Khoisan) language of southern Africa, primarily spoken by the Nama people in Namibia and neighboring regions.
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E.
Nngu language
Nngu is a Bantu language spoken on the northeast coast of Africa, belonging to the Northeast Coast Bantu subgroup.
- 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: Nume language Target entity description: Nume language is an Oceanic language spoken by a small community on the island of Gaua in the Banks Islands of northern Vanuatu.
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A.
Numbami language
The Numbami language is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community in Papua New Guinea, known for its distinctive phonology and morphology within the Bel language group.
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B.
Uma language
Uma is an Austronesian language of the Celebic subgroup spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Nembe language
The Nembe language is an Ijoid language spoken primarily by the Nembe people in Bayelsa State in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region.
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D.
Nama language
Nama language is a Khoe (Khoisan) language of southern Africa, primarily spoken by the Nama people in Namibia and neighboring regions.
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E.
Nngu language
Nngu is a Bantu language spoken on the northeast coast of Africa, belonging to the Northeast Coast Bantu subgroup.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Oceanic language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Nume
ⓘ
Nume (Gaua) ⓘ |
| continent | Oceania ⓘ |
| country | Vanuatu ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Nume people ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Austronesian language
ⓘ
linked to:
Proto-Austronesian
Proto-North Vanuatu language ⓘ
linked to:
Proto–North-Central Vanuatu
Proto-Oceanic language ⓘ |
| hasDialects | no major documented dialects ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | tgs ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ North Vanuatu languages ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Vanuatu languages
Oceanic languages ⓘ Southern Oceanic languages ⓘ |
| locatedOn | island of Gaua ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | small community ⓘ |
| region |
Banks Islands
ⓘ
Gaua ⓘ Torba Province ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Banks Islands
ⓘ
Gaua ⓘ Vanuatu ⓘ northern Vanuatu ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
North-Central Vanuatu language
ⓘ
linked to:
North-Central Vanuatu languages
|
| 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: Nume language Description of subject: Nume language is an Oceanic language spoken by a small community on the island of Gaua in the Banks Islands of northern Vanuatu.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.