Kelabit people
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The Kelabit people are an indigenous Dayak ethnic group of the highlands of northern Borneo, primarily in Sarawak, Malaysia, known for their upland rice cultivation, megalithic culture, and longhouse communities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kelabit people canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6296054 — 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: Kelabit people Context triple: [Murut people, relatedEthnicGroup, Kelabit people]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Sama-Bajau peoples
The Sama-Bajau peoples are a diverse group of traditionally seafaring, Austronesian ethnic communities of Maritime Southeast Asia, often known as “sea nomads” for their boat-dwelling lifestyle and close relationship with the ocean.
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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.
Katzie people
The Katzie people are an Indigenous Coast Salish nation traditionally based around the lower Fraser River and Pitt Lake regions of what is now southwestern British Columbia, Canada.
- 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: Kelabit people Target entity description: The Kelabit people are an indigenous Dayak ethnic group of the highlands of northern Borneo, primarily in Sarawak, Malaysia, known for their upland rice cultivation, megalithic culture, and longhouse communities.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Sama-Bajau peoples
The Sama-Bajau peoples are a diverse group of traditionally seafaring, Austronesian ethnic communities of Maritime Southeast Asia, often known as “sea nomads” for their boat-dwelling lifestyle and close relationship with the ocean.
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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.
Katzie people
The Katzie people are an Indigenous Coast Salish nation traditionally based around the lower Fraser River and Pitt Lake regions of what is now southwestern British Columbia, Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dayak people
ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Malaysia ⓘ |
| countryOfDiaspora |
Australia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brunei NERFINISHED ⓘ Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ Singapore NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalHeritage |
burial mounds
ⓘ
stone megaliths ⓘ stone monuments ⓘ |
| culturalPractice | megalithic culture ⓘ |
| ethnographicRegion | interior Sarawak ⓘ |
| formerReligion | animism ⓘ |
| language | Kelabit language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageGroup |
Apad Uat subgroup
ⓘ
North Bornean languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSubfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Borneo
NERFINISHED
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Sarawak NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Borneo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSettlement |
Bario
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pa' Dalih NERFINISHED ⓘ Pa' Lungan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableValley | Bario Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationConcentration | rural highland communities ⓘ |
| populationSize | small population ⓘ |
| region | Kelabit Highlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionType | highland people ⓘ |
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Kayan people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kenyah people NERFINISHED ⓘ Lun Bawang people NERFINISHED ⓘ Penan people NERFINISHED ⓘ Sa'ban people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Protestant Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
| traditionalCraft |
basketry
ⓘ
beadwork ⓘ |
| traditionalEconomy |
hunting and gathering
ⓘ
swidden agriculture ⓘ upland rice cultivation ⓘ wet paddy rice (recent adoption) ⓘ |
| traditionalLeadership | headman ⓘ |
| traditionalMusic | sape-related music traditions ⓘ |
| traditionalReligion | ancestor worship ⓘ |
| traditionalSettlementType | longhouse ⓘ |
| traditionalSocialStructure | longhouse-based community ⓘ |
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: Kelabit people Description of subject: The Kelabit people are an indigenous Dayak ethnic group of the highlands of northern Borneo, primarily in Sarawak, Malaysia, known for their upland rice cultivation, megalithic culture, and longhouse communities.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.