Yami language
E153293
The Yami language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tao (Yami) people of Orchid Island in Taiwan, known for preserving many archaic features within the Batanic subgroup.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yami language canonical | 5 |
| Tao (Yami) language | 1 |
| Yami (Tao) language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1252026 — 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: Yami language Context triple: [Batanic languages, hasMember, Yami language]
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A.
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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B.
Amami language
The Amami language is a Ryukyuan language spoken in Japan’s Amami Islands, known for its endangered status and distinct phonology and grammar within the Japonic language family.
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C.
Kawaiisu language
Kawaiisu language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Kawaiisu people of southern California.
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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.
Yana language
The Yana language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northern California, notable for its complex verb morphology and documentation by linguist Edward Sapir.
- 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: Yami language Target entity description: The Yami language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tao (Yami) people of Orchid Island in Taiwan, known for preserving many archaic features within the Batanic subgroup.
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A.
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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B.
Amami language
The Amami language is a Ryukyuan language spoken in Japan’s Amami Islands, known for its endangered status and distinct phonology and grammar within the Japonic language family.
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C.
Kawaiisu language
Kawaiisu language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Kawaiisu people of southern California.
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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.
Yana language
The Yana language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northern California, notable for its complex verb morphology and documentation by linguist Edward Sapir.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Batanic language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Ponso no Tao
ⓘ
surface form:
Ciriciring no Tao
Yami language ⓘ
surface form:
Tao (Yami) language
Thao language ⓘ
surface form:
Tao language
|
| associatedEthnicity | Tao people ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Itbayat language
ⓘ
Ivatan language ⓘ |
| country | Republic of China ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| glottologName |
Yami (Tao)
ⓘ
surface form:
Yami
|
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Austronesian language
ⓘ
Batanic languages ⓘ
surface form:
Proto-Batanic language
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ |
| hasAutonym | Ciring no Tao ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | yami1235 ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | tao ⓘ |
| hasLexicalBorrowingFrom |
Japanese language
ⓘ
Mandarin Chinese ⓘ Philippine languages ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | Austronesian voice system (reduced compared to Proto-Austronesian) ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory including prenasalized stops ⓘ |
| hasResearchField | Austronesian linguistics ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
historical reconstruction of Batanic subgroup
ⓘ
language contact in Taiwan-Philippines area ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEffort | community-based language preservation programs on Orchid Island ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature | verb-initial basic word order ⓘ |
| isOfficialLanguageOf | none ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | some local schools on Orchid Island ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| preservesFeature |
archaic Batanic phonology
ⓘ
archaic Batanic vocabulary ⓘ conservative Austronesian morphology ⓘ |
| region |
eastern Taiwan
ⓘ
surface form:
Southeast Taiwan
|
| spokenBy |
Tao people
ⓘ
Yami people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Orchid Island
ⓘ
Taiwan, Province of China ⓘ
surface form:
Taiwan
|
| spokenOn |
Lanyu
ⓘ
surface form:
Lanyu (Orchid Island)
|
| subgroupOf |
Batanic subgroup
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
Mandarin Chinese
ⓘ
Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication within Tao communities ⓘ |
| 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: Yami language Description of subject: The Yami language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tao (Yami) people of Orchid Island in Taiwan, known for preserving many archaic features within the Batanic subgroup.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tao (Yami) language
this entity surface form:
Yami (Tao) language