Te Reo Māori
E228579
Te Reo Māori is the Indigenous Polynesian language of the Māori people of New Zealand and one of the country’s official languages.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Māori | 24 |
| Māori language | 19 |
| Te Reo Māori canonical | 18 |
| te reo Māori | 5 |
| Maori language | 2 |
| New Zealand Māori language | 2 |
| Māori language (te reo Māori) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2063026 — 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: Te Reo Māori Context triple: [New Zealand courts, usesLanguage, Te Reo Māori]
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A.
Māori
Māori are the Indigenous Polynesian people of Aotearoa New Zealand, known for their rich cultural traditions, language (te reo Māori), and significant influence on the nation’s identity.
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B.
Cook Islands Māori language
Cook Islands Māori is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken primarily in the Cook Islands and closely related to New Zealand Māori and other Polynesian languages.
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C.
Niuean language
The Niuean language is a Polynesian language spoken primarily on the island nation of Niue and by its diaspora, sharing close linguistic ties with other languages of the region.
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D.
Rarotongan language
The Rarotongan language is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken primarily on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands and often considered the prestige dialect of Cook Islands Māori.
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E.
Nukulaelae dialect
The Nukulaelae dialect is a regional variety of the Tuvaluan (Ellicean) language spoken primarily on Nukulaelae Atoll in Tuvalu.
- 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: Te Reo Māori Target entity description: Te Reo Māori is the Indigenous Polynesian language of the Māori people of New Zealand and one of the country’s official languages.
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A.
Māori
Māori are the Indigenous Polynesian people of Aotearoa New Zealand, known for their rich cultural traditions, language (te reo Māori), and significant influence on the nation’s identity.
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B.
Cook Islands Māori language
Cook Islands Māori is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken primarily in the Cook Islands and closely related to New Zealand Māori and other Polynesian languages.
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C.
Niuean language
The Niuean language is a Polynesian language spoken primarily on the island nation of Niue and by its diaspora, sharing close linguistic ties with other languages of the region.
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D.
Rarotongan language
The Rarotongan language is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken primarily on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands and often considered the prestige dialect of Cook Islands Māori.
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E.
Nukulaelae dialect
The Nukulaelae dialect is a regional variety of the Tuvaluan (Ellicean) language spoken primarily on Nukulaelae Atoll in Tuvalu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous language
ⓘ
Polynesian language ⓘ official language ⓘ subject of language revitalization ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Cook Islands Māori language
ⓘ
surface form:
Cook Islands Māori
Hawaiian ⓘ
surface form:
Hawaiian language
Rapa Nui language ⓘ Tahitian language ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| endonym |
Te Reo Māori
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
te reo Māori
|
| hasCulturalRole | taonga (treasure) under the Treaty of Waitangi ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
dual and plural number distinctions in pronouns
ⓘ
inclusive and exclusive first-person plural pronouns ⓘ no grammatical gender ⓘ preposed particles for tense and aspect ⓘ use of possessive particles a and o ⓘ |
| hasLegalStatus | official language of New Zealand ⓘ |
| hasPhonemicFeature | contrast between short and long vowels ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationMovement |
Kura Kaupapa Māori (Māori immersion schools)
ⓘ
Kōhanga Reo (language nests) ⓘ Māori language week (Te Wiki o te Reo Māori) ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder |
VOS (verb–object–subject)
ⓘ
VSO (verb–subject–object) ⓘ |
| ISO639-1Code | mi ⓘ |
| ISO639-2Code |
mao
ⓘ
mri ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | mri ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| literalMeaningOfName | the Māori language ⓘ |
| nativeTo | New Zealand ⓘ |
| officialStatusIn | New Zealand ⓘ |
| protectedBy | Treaty of Waitangi principles ⓘ |
| recognizedByLaw |
Māori Language Act 1987
ⓘ
Te Ture Reo Māori 2016 ⓘ |
| regulatedBy | Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori ⓘ |
| regulatoryBody | Māori Language Commission ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Māori people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Australia (Māori diaspora)
ⓘ
Cook Islands Māori New Zealanders ⓘ
surface form:
Cook Islands (diaspora communities)
New Zealand ⓘ United Kingdom (Māori diaspora) ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Malayo-Polynesian languages
ⓘ
Oceanic languages ⓘ Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| subgroup |
Polynesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Polynesian languages
Tahitic languages ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Māori-medium education
ⓘ
New Zealand Parliament proceedings ⓘ New Zealand broadcasting ⓘ New Zealand courts ⓘ |
| usesDiacritics | macron (to mark long vowels) ⓘ |
| 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: Te Reo Māori Description of subject: Te Reo Māori is the Indigenous Polynesian language of the Māori people of New Zealand and one of the country’s official languages.
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Māori language
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Māori language
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Māori
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te reo Māori
subject surface form:
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Māori
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Māori language
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te reo Māori
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Māori language