Angan languages
E602085
The Angan languages are a group of closely related Papuan languages spoken primarily in the highlands of southeastern Papua New Guinea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Angan languages canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6523610 — 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: Angan languages Context triple: [Trans–New Guinea languages, hasSubgroup, Angan languages]
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A.
Ongan languages
The Ongan languages are a small family of indigenous languages spoken by the Ongan peoples of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.
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B.
Tani languages
The Tani languages are a subgroup of the Sino-Tibetan language family spoken primarily in Arunachal Pradesh and adjoining regions of Northeast India by various indigenous communities.
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C.
Zanian languages
Zanian languages are a small group of closely related Kartvelian languages spoken primarily in western Georgia, including Mingrelian and Laz.
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D.
Mahakam languages
The Mahakam languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken along the Mahakam River region of Borneo, forming a distinct branch within the broader Barito language family.
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E.
Agta languages
Agta languages are a group of Austronesian languages spoken by various Agta (Negrito) hunter-gatherer communities in the Philippines, known for their distinct phonological and lexical features and heavy contact with neighboring Philippine languages.
- 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: Angan languages Target entity description: The Angan languages are a group of closely related Papuan languages spoken primarily in the highlands of southeastern Papua New Guinea.
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A.
Ongan languages
The Ongan languages are a small family of indigenous languages spoken by the Ongan peoples of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.
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B.
Tani languages
The Tani languages are a subgroup of the Sino-Tibetan language family spoken primarily in Arunachal Pradesh and adjoining regions of Northeast India by various indigenous communities.
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C.
Zanian languages
Zanian languages are a small group of closely related Kartvelian languages spoken primarily in western Georgia, including Mingrelian and Laz.
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D.
Mahakam languages
The Mahakam languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken along the Mahakam River region of Borneo, forming a distinct branch within the broader Barito language family.
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E.
Agta languages
Agta languages are a group of Austronesian languages spoken by various Agta (Negrito) hunter-gatherer communities in the Philippines, known for their distinct phonological and lexical features and heavy contact with neighboring Philippine languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Papuan language group
ⓘ
language family ⓘ |
| areClassifiedAs | non-Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| areCloselyRelated | each other ⓘ |
| areDocumentedIn | Papuan linguistics literature ⓘ |
| areEndangered | some member languages ⓘ |
| areKnownFor |
complex verbal morphology
ⓘ
rich case marking ⓘ |
| arePartOf | Papuan languages of New Guinea ⓘ |
| arePrimarilyOral | true ⓘ |
| areSpokenBy | Angan peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areUsedIn | traditional highlands communities ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Eastern Highlands Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gulf Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Morobe Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Owen Stanley Range NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Anga languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Angan family ⓘ Kratke Range languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasApproximateNumberOfLanguages | 15 ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Angaataha language
ⓘ
Angaatɨha language ⓘ Baruya language NERFINISHED ⓘ Fore language NERFINISHED ⓘ Gadsup language NERFINISHED ⓘ Ivori language ⓘ Kamea language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kanite language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kapau language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kukwo language ⓘ Menya language NERFINISHED ⓘ Sambia language NERFINISHED ⓘ Simog language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tainae language ⓘ Yagaria language NERFINISHED ⓘ Yagwoia language NERFINISHED ⓘ Yareba language ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup |
North Angan languages
ⓘ
South Angan languages ⓘ |
| haveISOClassification | various individual ISO 639-3 codes ⓘ |
| havePrimaryWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| languageFamilyStatus | small family ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion |
Papua New Guinea Highlands
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southeastern Papua New Guinea ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Trans–New Guinea languages 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: Angan languages Description of subject: The Angan languages are a group of closely related Papuan languages spoken primarily in the highlands of southeastern Papua New Guinea.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.