Luilang language
E138022
The Luilang language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by an indigenous Formosan group in northern Taiwan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Luilang language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1204551 — 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: Luilang language Context triple: [Formosan languages, majorSubgroupIncludes, Luilang language]
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A.
Saluan language
The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Chimariko language
The Chimariko language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northwestern California, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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C.
Kamviri language
The Kamviri language is a Nuristani language spoken primarily by the Kam people in parts of eastern Afghanistan and neighboring regions of Pakistan.
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D.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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E.
Luri language
Luri language is a Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Lur people in western and southwestern Iran.
- 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: Luilang language Target entity description: The Luilang language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by an indigenous Formosan group in northern Taiwan.
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A.
Saluan language
The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Chimariko language
The Chimariko language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northwestern California, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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C.
Kamviri language
The Kamviri language is a Nuristani language spoken primarily by the Kam people in parts of eastern Afghanistan and neighboring regions of Pakistan.
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D.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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E.
Luri language
Luri language is a Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Lur people in western and southwestern Iran.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Formosan language ⓘ extinct language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Pangcah
ⓘ
surface form:
Ketagalan
Luilang ⓘ |
| classificationStatus | poorly attested ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country |
Taiwan, Province of China
ⓘ
surface form:
Taiwan
|
| documentationStatus | limited wordlists ⓘ |
| endangeredStatusBeforeExtinction | severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicity | indigenous Formosan people ⓘ |
| extinction | 19th century ⓘ |
| glottologCode | luil1234 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Luilang ⓘ |
| hasDescendant | no known living descendant languages ⓘ |
| hasType | indigenous language of Taiwan ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | nng ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Northern Formosan ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian
|
| languageShiftTo |
Japanese
ⓘ
Mandarin Chinese ⓘ Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ |
| location |
northern Taiwan
ⓘ
surface form:
Taipei Basin
Tamsui River ⓘ
surface form:
Tamsui River region
|
| region | northern Taiwan ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Luilang people ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Formosa ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| writingSystem | no indigenous writing system ⓘ |
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: Luilang language Description of subject: The Luilang language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by an indigenous Formosan group in northern Taiwan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.