Mapun
E183459
Mapun is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Mapun people of the southern Philippines, particularly on Mapun (Cagayan de Sulu) Island in the Sulu Sea.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mapun canonical | 2 |
| Mapun Sama | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1614115 — 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: Mapun Context triple: [Sama–Bajaw languages subgroup, hasNotableLanguage, Mapun]
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A.
Mapah
Mapah is Rabbi Moses Isserles’s glosses on the Shulchan Aruch, integrating Ashkenazi customs and rulings into that foundational Jewish legal code.
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B.
Vanua Levu
Vanua Levu is the second-largest island of Fiji, known for its relatively undeveloped landscapes, traditional villages, and rich marine and rainforest environments.
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C.
Maaskant
Maaskant is a Dutch surname most notably associated with architect Hugh Aart (H.A.) Maaskant, known for his influential post-war modernist buildings in the Netherlands.
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D.
Terra da Garoa
Terra da Garoa is a popular nickname for the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo, alluding to its characteristic light, misty rain.
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E.
Hawaiki
Hawaiki is the ancestral Polynesian homeland in Māori and other Pacific traditions, often regarded as both a place of origin and a spiritual homeland.
- 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: Mapun Target entity description: Mapun is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Mapun people of the southern Philippines, particularly on Mapun (Cagayan de Sulu) Island in the Sulu Sea.
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A.
Mapah
Mapah is Rabbi Moses Isserles’s glosses on the Shulchan Aruch, integrating Ashkenazi customs and rulings into that foundational Jewish legal code.
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B.
Vanua Levu
Vanua Levu is the second-largest island of Fiji, known for its relatively undeveloped landscapes, traditional villages, and rich marine and rainforest environments.
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C.
Maaskant
Maaskant is a Dutch surname most notably associated with architect Hugh Aart (H.A.) Maaskant, known for his influential post-war modernist buildings in the Netherlands.
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D.
Terra da Garoa
Terra da Garoa is a popular nickname for the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo, alluding to its characteristic light, misty rain.
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E.
Hawaiki
Hawaiki is the ancestral Polynesian homeland in Māori and other Pacific traditions, often regarded as both a place of origin and a spiritual homeland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Cagayan de Sulu language
ⓘ
Cagayanen ⓘ Mapun ⓘ
surface form:
Mapun Sama
Jama Mapun ⓘ
surface form:
Sama Mapun
|
| closelyRelatedTo |
Pangutaran Sama
ⓘ
Sama language ⓘ Yakan language ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable (needs documentation and support) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mapun people ⓘ |
| hasAlignmentType | Philippine-type voice system ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
local trade in Sulu Sea
ⓘ
traditional maritime culture ⓘ |
| hasLinguasphereCode | 31-MFF-b ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
Arabic
ⓘ
Tagalog ⓘ
surface form:
Filipino (Tagalog-based)
Malay ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions) ⓘ |
| hasReligionContext | predominantly Muslim-speaking community ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder |
verb–object–subject (VOS) tendency
ⓘ
verb–subject–object (VSO) tendency ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | sjm ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian
|
| languageGroup | Sama–Bajaw ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguages |
Sama-Banguingui
ⓘ
Tausug ⓘ Yakan ⓘ |
| region | Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Mapun people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Cagayan de Tawi-Tawi Island
ⓘ
surface form:
Cagayan de Sulu Island
Mapun Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Philippines ⓘ Sulu Sea ⓘ
surface form:
Sulu Sea region
southern Philippines ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf |
Sama–Bajaw languages subgroup
ⓘ
surface form:
Sama–Bajaw languages
|
| usedIn |
daily communication among Mapun people
ⓘ
local oral tradition ⓘ |
| 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: Mapun Description of subject: Mapun is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Mapun people of the southern Philippines, particularly on Mapun (Cagayan de Sulu) Island in the Sulu Sea.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mapun Sama