Kadazan Dusun language
E138029
Kadazan Dusun is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Kadazan-Dusun people of Sabah, Malaysia, and is notable for its rich oral traditions and role in indigenous cultural identity.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kadazan Dusun language canonical | 1 |
| Kadazan-Dusun languages | 1 |
| Kadazandusun | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1204593 — 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: Kadazan Dusun language Context triple: [Greater North Borneo languages, hasExampleLanguage, Kadazan Dusun language]
-
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.
-
B.
Minahasan languages
Minahasan languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken by the Minahasan people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
-
C.
Ndyuka language
The Ndyuka language is an English-based creole spoken primarily by the Ndyuka Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana.
-
D.
Kumzari language
The Kumzari language is an endangered Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Kumzari people in the Musandam Peninsula of Oman.
-
E.
Saluan language
The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
- 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: Kadazan Dusun language Target entity description: Kadazan Dusun is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Kadazan-Dusun people of Sabah, Malaysia, and is notable for its rich oral traditions and role in indigenous cultural identity.
-
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.
-
B.
Minahasan languages
Minahasan languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken by the Minahasan people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
-
C.
Ndyuka language
The Ndyuka language is an English-based creole spoken primarily by the Ndyuka Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana.
-
D.
Kumzari language
The Kumzari language is an endangered Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Kumzari people in the Musandam Peninsula of Oman.
-
E.
Saluan language
The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| country | Malaysia ⓘ |
| hasAlignmentType | Austronesian alignment ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Dusun
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Dusun
Dusun ⓘ Kadazan-Dusun ⓘ
surface form:
Kadazan
Kadazan Dusun language ⓘ
surface form:
Kadazandusun
|
| hasBasicWordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole |
marker of Kadazan-Dusun ethnic identity
ⓘ
medium of traditional knowledge transmission ⓘ vehicle for oral literature ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Bundu-Liwan
ⓘ
Kadazan-Dusun ⓘ
surface form:
Coastal Kadazan
Dusun ⓘ Dusun ⓘ
surface form:
Interior Dusun
Kadazan-Dusun ⓘ
surface form:
Kadazan
Tangaa ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | cent2085 ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | dtp ⓘ |
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom |
English
ⓘ
Malay ⓘ other Sabah indigenous languages ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasRegulatingBody | Kadazandusun Language Foundation ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
| isEndangered | yes ⓘ |
| isOfficialIn |
Sabah
ⓘ
surface form:
Sabah (for native language promotion contexts)
|
| isTaughtIn | some Sabah primary schools ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| region |
Borneo
ⓘ
Sabah ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Kadazan-Dusun
ⓘ
surface form:
Kadazan-Dusun people
|
| spokenIn |
Malaysia
ⓘ
Sabah ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| subgroup |
Greater North Borneo languages
ⓘ
surface form:
North Bornean languages
Southwest Sabahan languages ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cultural identity expression
ⓘ
folklore ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ rituals ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ |
| usedInMedia | local radio programs in Sabah ⓘ |
| usedInReligion |
Christian church services in Sabah
ⓘ
traditional indigenous rituals ⓘ |
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: Kadazan Dusun language Description of subject: Kadazan Dusun is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Kadazan-Dusun people of Sabah, Malaysia, and is notable for its rich oral traditions and role in indigenous cultural identity.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kadazandusun
this entity surface form:
Kadazan-Dusun languages