Bahau
E583372
Bahau is an Austronesian Dayak language variety spoken by indigenous communities in central Borneo, particularly in Indonesia’s East and North Kalimantan regions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bahau canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6301232 — 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: Bahau Context triple: [Kayan language, hasDialect, Bahau]
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A.
Bahau
Bahau is a prominent town in the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan, serving as a local commercial and transportation hub for the surrounding rural areas.
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B.
Bahraich
Bahraich is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, known for its location in the Terai region near the Nepal border and its historical and cultural significance.
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C.
Beji
Beji is the given name of Beji Caid Essebsi, the Tunisian politician who served as president of Tunisia after the 2011 revolution.
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D.
Ba'aj
Ba'aj is a small town in northwestern Iraq near the Syrian border, known for its remote desert location and strategic position within Nineveh Governorate.
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E.
Berhida
Berhida is a small town in western Hungary known for its industrial background and location near the city of Veszprém.
- 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: Bahau Target entity description: Bahau is an Austronesian Dayak language variety spoken by indigenous communities in central Borneo, particularly in Indonesia’s East and North Kalimantan regions.
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A.
Bahau
Bahau is a prominent town in the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan, serving as a local commercial and transportation hub for the surrounding rural areas.
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B.
Bahraich
Bahraich is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, known for its location in the Terai region near the Nepal border and its historical and cultural significance.
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C.
Beji
Beji is the given name of Beji Caid Essebsi, the Tunisian politician who served as president of Tunisia after the 2011 revolution.
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D.
Ba'aj
Ba'aj is a small town in northwestern Iraq near the Syrian border, known for its remote desert location and strategic position within Nineveh Governorate.
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E.
Berhida
Berhida is a small town in western Hungary known for its industrial background and location near the city of Veszprém.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Dayak language ⓘ language variety ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Dayak languages of Borneo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Bahau Dayak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Long Apari
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Long Bangun NERFINISHED ⓘ Long Bleh NERFINISHED ⓘ Long Gelat NERFINISHED ⓘ Long Gelawang NERFINISHED ⓘ Long Glat NERFINISHED ⓘ Long Lunuk NERFINISHED ⓘ Long Lurah NERFINISHED ⓘ Long Merah NERFINISHED ⓘ Long Pua NERFINISHED ⓘ Long Pujungan NERFINISHED ⓘ Long Selaan NERFINISHED ⓘ Long Tebulo NERFINISHED ⓘ Long Tikan NERFINISHED ⓘ Long Tuyoq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | baha1257 ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | bhv ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian
|
| neighboringLanguage |
Kayan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kenyah NERFINISHED ⓘ Punan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
East Kalimantan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Kalimantan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Dayak people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
indigenous communities of central Borneo ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Borneo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Central Borneo NERFINISHED ⓘ East Kalimantan NERFINISHED ⓘ Indonesia ⓘ North Kalimantan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ |
| usedIn |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| 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: Bahau Description of subject: Bahau is an Austronesian Dayak language variety spoken by indigenous communities in central Borneo, particularly in Indonesia’s East and North Kalimantan regions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.