Yamdena language
E612107
The Yamdena language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Yamdena Island in Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yamdena language canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6684105 — 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: Yamdena language Context triple: [Tanimbar languages, hasMember, Yamdena language]
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A.
Yakoma language
The Yakoma language is a Ubangian language spoken by the Yakoma people of the Central African Republic and neighboring regions.
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B.
Tanema language
Tanema is a nearly extinct Oceanic language once spoken on Vanikoro Island in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands.
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C.
Yana language
The Yana language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northern California, notable for its complex verb morphology and documentation by linguist Edward Sapir.
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D.
Damana language
The Damana language is an indigenous Chibchan tongue spoken by the Wiwa people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region in northern Colombia.
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E.
Nyishi language
The Nyishi language is a Tani (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken primarily by the Nyishi people of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India.
- 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: Yamdena language Target entity description: The Yamdena language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Yamdena Island in Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands.
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A.
Yakoma language
The Yakoma language is a Ubangian language spoken by the Yakoma people of the Central African Republic and neighboring regions.
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B.
Tanema language
Tanema is a nearly extinct Oceanic language once spoken on Vanikoro Island in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands.
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C.
Yana language
The Yana language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northern California, notable for its complex verb morphology and documentation by linguist Edward Sapir.
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D.
Damana language
The Damana language is an indigenous Chibchan tongue spoken by the Wiwa people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region in northern Colombia.
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E.
Nyishi language
The Nyishi language is a Tani (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken primarily by the Nyishi people of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Jamdena
ⓘ
Yamdena (Jamdena) NERFINISHED ⓘ Yamdena-Jamdena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Tanimbar people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialects | various local village dialects on Yamdena Island ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | yamd1240 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Yamdena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | jmd ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| isSpokenBy | inhabitants of Yamdena Island ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian
Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguages |
Fordata language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Selaru language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLocation | Yamdena Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Southeast Maluku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Maluku province NERFINISHED ⓘ Tanimbar Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Yamdena Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf |
Austronesian languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication in local communities ⓘ |
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: Yamdena language Description of subject: The Yamdena language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Yamdena Island in Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.