Kenyah people
E551808
The Kenyah people are an indigenous Dayak ethnic group of Borneo, known for their rich oral traditions, elaborate rituals, and distinctive music and dance culture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kenyah people canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5762577 — 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: Kenyah people Context triple: [sapeh, usedBy, Kenyah people]
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A.
Kayah people
The Kayah people are an ethnic minority from eastern Myanmar, closely related to the broader Karen ethnic group, with their own distinct language, culture, and traditions.
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B.
Kayan people
The Kayan people are an indigenous Dayak ethnic group of Borneo known for their riverine longhouse communities, elaborate body art, and rich oral traditions.
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C.
Orang Asli
Orang Asli are the indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, comprising diverse ethnic subgroups with distinct languages, cultures, and traditional ways of life.
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D.
Ngaju people
The Ngaju people are an indigenous Dayak ethnic group of central Kalimantan, Borneo, known for their rich river-based culture, traditional longhouses, and elaborate secondary burial rituals.
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E.
Serawai people
The Serawai people are an indigenous ethnic group of southwestern Sumatra in Indonesia, known for their distinct language, customs, and traditional agrarian lifestyle within the province of Bengkulu.
- 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: Kenyah people Target entity description: The Kenyah people are an indigenous Dayak ethnic group of Borneo, known for their rich oral traditions, elaborate rituals, and distinctive music and dance culture.
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A.
Kayah people
The Kayah people are an ethnic minority from eastern Myanmar, closely related to the broader Karen ethnic group, with their own distinct language, culture, and traditions.
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B.
Kayan people
The Kayan people are an indigenous Dayak ethnic group of Borneo known for their riverine longhouse communities, elaborate body art, and rich oral traditions.
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C.
Orang Asli
Orang Asli are the indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, comprising diverse ethnic subgroups with distinct languages, cultures, and traditional ways of life.
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D.
Ngaju people
The Ngaju people are an indigenous Dayak ethnic group of central Kalimantan, Borneo, known for their rich river-based culture, traditional longhouses, and elaborate secondary burial rituals.
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E.
Serawai people
The Serawai people are an indigenous ethnic group of southwestern Sumatra in Indonesia, known for their distinct language, customs, and traditional agrarian lifestyle within the province of Bengkulu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dayak people
ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ |
| artForm |
beadwork
ⓘ
tattooing ⓘ woodcarving ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Malaysia ⓘ |
| culturalHeritageStatus | indigenous cultural heritage of Borneo ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Dayak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
distinctive dance culture
ⓘ
distinctive music ⓘ elaborate rituals ⓘ rich oral traditions ⓘ |
| language | Kenyah languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageSubfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| mainArea |
East Kalimantan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sarawak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryRegion | Borneo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Iban people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kayan people NERFINISHED ⓘ Kelabit people NERFINISHED ⓘ Lun Bawang people NERFINISHED ⓘ Penan people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ |
| socialOrganization | longhouse-based community ⓘ |
| subgroup |
Kenyah Lepo Aga
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kenyah Lepo Jalan NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenyah Lepo Ma’ut NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenyah Lepo Tau NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenyah Uma Baha NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenyah Uma Bakah NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenyah Uma Kulit NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenyah Uma Lasan NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenyah Uma Lung NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenyah Uma Pawa NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenyah Uma Suling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalDance | hornbill dance ⓘ |
| traditionalDwelling | longhouse ⓘ |
| traditionalEconomy |
hunting and gathering
ⓘ
rice cultivation ⓘ riverine fishing ⓘ swidden agriculture ⓘ |
| traditionalInstrument | sape ⓘ |
| traditionalLeadership | village headman ⓘ |
| traditionalMusic | sape music ⓘ |
| traditionalReligion |
Kenyah folk religion
ⓘ
animism ⓘ |
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: Kenyah people Description of subject: The Kenyah people are an indigenous Dayak ethnic group of Borneo, known for their rich oral traditions, elaborate rituals, and distinctive music and dance culture.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
sapeh