Oceanic languages
E128008
Oceanic languages are a major branch of the Austronesian language family spoken across the Pacific Islands, including Polynesia, Micronesia, and parts of Melanesia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oceanic languages canonical | 157 |
| Oceanic linguistics | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1111303 — 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: Oceanic languages Context triple: [Rapa Nui language, languageFamily, Oceanic languages]
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A.
Western Oceanic languages
Western Oceanic languages are a major subgroup of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family, spoken primarily in parts of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the Solomon Islands.
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B.
Central–Eastern Oceanic languages
Central–Eastern Oceanic languages are a major subgroup of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family, spoken across parts of Melanesia and Polynesia and known for their shared phonological and grammatical innovations.
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C.
Polynesian languages
Polynesian languages are a branch of the Austronesian language family spoken across the Polynesian islands of the central and southern Pacific Ocean, including languages such as Māori, Hawaiian, and Samoan.
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D.
Ellicean languages
Ellicean languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in parts of Polynesia, including Tuvalu and surrounding island regions.
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E.
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages are a major branch of the Austronesian language family spoken across Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and the Pacific, including languages such as Indonesian, Tagalog, Javanese, and Malagasy.
- 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: Oceanic languages Target entity description: Oceanic languages are a major branch of the Austronesian language family spoken across the Pacific Islands, including Polynesia, Micronesia, and parts of Melanesia.
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A.
Western Oceanic languages
Western Oceanic languages are a major subgroup of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family, spoken primarily in parts of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the Solomon Islands.
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B.
Central–Eastern Oceanic languages
Central–Eastern Oceanic languages are a major subgroup of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family, spoken across parts of Melanesia and Polynesia and known for their shared phonological and grammatical innovations.
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C.
Polynesian languages
Polynesian languages are a branch of the Austronesian language family spoken across the Polynesian islands of the central and southern Pacific Ocean, including languages such as Māori, Hawaiian, and Samoan.
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D.
Ellicean languages
Ellicean languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in parts of Polynesia, including Tuvalu and surrounding island regions.
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E.
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages are a major branch of the Austronesian language family spoken across Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and the Pacific, including languages such as Indonesian, Tagalog, Javanese, and Malagasy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
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: Oceanic languages Description of subject: Oceanic languages are a major branch of the Austronesian language family spoken across the Pacific Islands, including Polynesia, Micronesia, and parts of Melanesia.
Referenced by (160)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nakanai language
subject surface form:
Ambae