Tai Dam language
E313544
The Tai Dam language is a Southwestern Tai language spoken primarily by the Tai Dam (Black Tai) people in parts of Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tai Dam language canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2957631 — 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: Tai Dam language Context triple: [Southwestern Tai, hasMajorLanguage, Tai Dam language]
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A.
Damara language
The Damara language is a Khoe (Central Khoisan) language spoken primarily by the Damara people of Namibia.
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B.
Patamona language
The Patamona language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Patamona people of the Guiana Highlands in Guyana and northern Brazil.
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C.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
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D.
Semai language
The Semai language is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Semai people, an indigenous Orang Asli group in Peninsular Malaysia.
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E.
Dawan language
The Dawan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in West Timor, Indonesia, by the Atoni people.
- 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: Tai Dam language Target entity description: The Tai Dam language is a Southwestern Tai language spoken primarily by the Tai Dam (Black Tai) people in parts of Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and China.
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A.
Damara language
The Damara language is a Khoe (Central Khoisan) language spoken primarily by the Damara people of Namibia.
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B.
Patamona language
The Patamona language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Patamona people of the Guiana Highlands in Guyana and northern Brazil.
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C.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
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D.
Semai language
The Semai language is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Semai people, an indigenous Orang Asli group in Peninsular Malaysia.
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E.
Dawan language
The Dawan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in West Timor, Indonesia, by the Atoni people.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Southwestern Tai language
ⓘ
Tai language ⓘ analytic language ⓘ tonal language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Lao
ⓘ
surface form:
Lao language
Shan language ⓘ Thai language ⓘ |
| glottocode | taid1256 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Black Tai language
ⓘ
Tai Dam ⓘ
surface form:
Tai Deng–Tai Dam
Tai Noir ⓘ |
| hasAutonym |
Tai Dam
ⓘ
Táy Dăm ⓘ |
| hasConsonantInventorySize | moderate ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation |
Black Tai ritual texts
ⓘ
Black Tai traditional literature ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Tai Dam of China
ⓘ
Tai Dam of Laos ⓘ Tai Dam of Thailand ⓘ Tai Dam ⓘ
surface form:
Tai Dam of Vietnam
|
| hasEndangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | isolating ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
lexical tone ⓘ |
| hasStandardizationStatus | partially standardized ⓘ |
| hasVowelInventorySize | relatively large ⓘ |
| isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith | Standard Thai (for many speakers) ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | blt ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Tai–Kadai languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Tai–Kadai language family
|
| region |
Yunnan Province
ⓘ
surface form:
Yunnan, China
northern Laos ⓘ northern Thailand ⓘ northwestern Vietnam ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Black Tai people
ⓘ
Tai Dam people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
China
ⓘ
Laos ⓘ Thailand ⓘ Viet Nam ⓘ
surface form:
Vietnam
|
| subfamily | Tai branch ⓘ |
| subgroup |
Southwestern Tai
ⓘ
surface form:
Southwestern Tai subgroup
|
| usedByEthnicGroup |
Tai Dam people
ⓘ
surface form:
Tai Dam ethnic group
|
| usedInEducation | limited local education programs ⓘ |
| usedInMedia | local and community media ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
Tai Viet script ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Tai Dam language Description of subject: The Tai Dam language is a Southwestern Tai language spoken primarily by the Tai Dam (Black Tai) people in parts of Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and China.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.