Iban language
E138028
The Iban language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Iban people of Borneo, especially in Sarawak, Malaysia, and parts of Kalimantan, Indonesia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iban language canonical | 10 |
| Iban | 2 |
| Ibanic | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1204591 — 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: Iban language Context triple: [Greater North Borneo languages, hasExampleLanguage, Iban language]
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A.
Banjar language
The Banjar language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Banjar people of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, and is considered a regional variety closely associated with the broader Malay linguistic family.
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B.
Sabine language
The Sabine language was an extinct Italic tongue once spoken by the ancient Sabine people of central Italy, closely related to other Osco-Umbrian languages.
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C.
Isnag language
The Isnag language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Isnag people in the northern Cordillera region of Luzon in the Philippines.
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D.
Saluan language
The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
Kumzari language
The Kumzari language is an endangered Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Kumzari people in the Musandam Peninsula of Oman.
- 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: Iban language Target entity description: The Iban language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Iban people of Borneo, especially in Sarawak, Malaysia, and parts of Kalimantan, Indonesia.
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A.
Banjar language
The Banjar language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Banjar people of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, and is considered a regional variety closely associated with the broader Malay linguistic family.
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B.
Sabine language
The Sabine language was an extinct Italic tongue once spoken by the ancient Sabine people of central Italy, closely related to other Osco-Umbrian languages.
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C.
Isnag language
The Isnag language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Isnag people in the northern Cordillera region of Luzon in the Philippines.
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D.
Saluan language
The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
Kumzari language
The Kumzari language is an endangered Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Kumzari people in the Musandam Peninsula of Oman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Dayak language ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Malay
ⓘ
surface form:
Malay language
Bornean languages ⓘ
surface form:
Malayic Dayak languages
|
| country |
Brunei Darussalam
ⓘ
surface form:
Brunei
Indonesia ⓘ Malaysia ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Iban language
ⓘ
surface form:
Ibanic
Sea Dayak language ⓘ |
| hasBibleTranslation | Iban Bible ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Balau Iban
ⓘ
Remun Iban ⓘ Saribas Iban ⓘ Ulu Ai Iban ⓘ |
| hasEthnologueEntry | Iban ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | iban1264 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName |
Iban language
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Iban
|
| hasISO639-3Code | iba ⓘ |
| hasMajorLoanSource |
English language
ⓘ
Malay language ⓘ |
| hasMediaUse |
radio broadcasting in Sarawak
ⓘ
television programs in Sarawak ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNativeName |
Jaku Daya
ⓘ
Jaku Iban ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
nasal consonant phonemes ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| isStandardized | partially ⓘ |
| isTaughtAs | subject in some Sarawak schools ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| region |
Brunei Darussalam
ⓘ
surface form:
Brunei
Sarawak ⓘ West Kalimantan ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Iban people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Borneo
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ Kalimantan ⓘ Malaysia ⓘ Sarawak ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Malayic languages ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ traditional chants ⓘ |
| usedIn | education in Sarawak (limited contexts) ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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: Iban language Description of subject: The Iban language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Iban people of Borneo, especially in Sarawak, Malaysia, and parts of Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Iban
this entity surface form:
Iban
this entity surface form:
Ibanic