Puma language
E572266
Puma language is a Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan family spoken by the Puma people of eastern Nepal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Puma language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6148353 — 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: Puma language Context triple: [Kiranti languages, hasMember, Puma language]
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A.
Pumi language
The Pumi language is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily by the Pumi ethnic group in southwestern China, notable for its complex phonology and endangered status.
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B.
Mono language
Mono language is a Native American Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Mono people of eastern California.
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C.
Pokomo language
The Pokomo language is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Pokomo people along Kenya’s Tana River.
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D.
Uma language
Uma is an Austronesian language of the Celebic subgroup spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
Puyuma language
The Puyuma language is an endangered Austronesian language spoken by the Puyuma Indigenous people of southeastern Taiwan.
- 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: Puma language Target entity description: Puma language is a Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan family spoken by the Puma people of eastern Nepal.
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A.
Pumi language
The Pumi language is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily by the Pumi ethnic group in southwestern China, notable for its complex phonology and endangered status.
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B.
Mono language
Mono language is a Native American Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Mono people of eastern California.
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C.
Pokomo language
The Pokomo language is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Pokomo people along Kenya’s Tana River.
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D.
Uma language
Uma is an Austronesian language of the Celebic subgroup spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
Puyuma language
The Puyuma language is an endangered Austronesian language spoken by the Puyuma Indigenous people of southeastern Taiwan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kiranti language
ⓘ
Sino-Tibetan language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Eastern Kiranti languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Nepal ⓘ |
| countryOfficial | no ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Puma people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Sino-Tibetan language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Puma
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Puma (Kiranti) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity | Puma community ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | pum ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Kiranti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Sino-Tibetan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUsage | oral communication ⓘ |
| region |
Khotang District
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sankhuwasabha District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Nepal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern Nepal ⓘ |
| subgroup | Kiranti languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
complex verbal agreement ⓘ verb-final word order ⓘ |
| usedIn |
daily communication among Puma people
ⓘ
traditional rituals of Puma people ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Devanagari script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Puma language Description of subject: Puma language is a Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan family spoken by the Puma people of eastern Nepal.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.