Nyoongar language
E938369
Nyoongar language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Noongar people of southwestern Western Australia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nyoongar language canonical | 3 |
| Ngoorabul language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11626450 — 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: Nyoongar language Context triple: [Noongar language, alternativeName, Nyoongar language]
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A.
Yinggarda language
The Yinggarda language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Yinggarda (Yamatji) people of Western Australia’s Gascoyne region.
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B.
Gundungurra language
The Gundungurra language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Gundungurra people of the Southern Highlands and Blue Mountains region of New South Wales.
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C.
Ngarigo language
Ngarigo language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Ngarigo people of southeastern New South Wales and northeastern Victoria.
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D.
Yindjibarndi language
The Yindjibarndi language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Yindjibarndi people of the Pilbara region in Western Australia.
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E.
Waigali language
The Waigali language is a Nuristani language spoken by the Waigal people in eastern Afghanistan.
- 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: Nyoongar language Target entity description: Nyoongar language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Noongar people of southwestern Western Australia.
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A.
Yinggarda language
The Yinggarda language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Yinggarda (Yamatji) people of Western Australia’s Gascoyne region.
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B.
Gundungurra language
The Gundungurra language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Gundungurra people of the Southern Highlands and Blue Mountains region of New South Wales.
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C.
Ngarigo language
Ngarigo language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Ngarigo people of southeastern New South Wales and northeastern Victoria.
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D.
Yindjibarndi language
The Yindjibarndi language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Yindjibarndi people of the Pilbara region in Western Australia.
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E.
Waigali language
The Waigali language is a Nuristani language spoken by the Waigal people in eastern Afghanistan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian Aboriginal language
ⓘ
Pama–Nyungan language ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Noongar
ⓘ
linked to:
Nyungar
Noongar language ⓘ Noongar/Nyungar ⓘ
linked to:
Noongar language
Nyoongah ⓘ Nyungah ⓘ Nyungar ⓘ Nyungar language ⓘ
linked to:
Noongar language
|
| hasBasicWordOrder |
flexible word order
ⓘ
often SOV ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Amangu
ⓘ
Balardong ⓘ Bibbulmun ⓘ Coastal varieties ⓘ Inland varieties ⓘ Kaneang ⓘ Koreng ⓘ Minang ⓘ
linked to:
Minang Noongar
Njakinjaki ⓘ Pibelmen ⓘ Wardandi ⓘ Wardandi–Bunbury area varieties ⓘ Whadjuk ⓘ Wudjari ⓘ Yued ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | nyun1243 ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | nys ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrast between long and short vowels in some analyses
ⓘ
three-vowel system in many descriptions ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEfforts |
community language programs
ⓘ
dictionary and grammar projects ⓘ school-based teaching programs ⓘ university courses ⓘ |
| isRecognizedBy | Government of Western Australia as part of Noongar cultural heritage ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | Noongar language revival projects in Western Australia ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Pama–Nyungan
ⓘ
linked to:
Pama–Nyungan languages
|
| region | Southwest corner of Western Australia ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Noongar people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Southwest Western Australia
ⓘ
linked to:
Southwestern Australia
|
| status | endangered language ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Nyungic
ⓘ
linked to:
Nyungah
|
| traditionalLanguageOf | Noongar people ⓘ |
| usedIn |
cultural ceremonies of Noongar people
ⓘ
oral storytelling traditions of Noongar people ⓘ songs of Noongar people ⓘ |
| 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: Nyoongar language Description of subject: Nyoongar language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Noongar people of southwestern Western Australia.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nyoongar language