Kei language
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Kei language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the Kei (Kai) Islands in southeastern Maluku, Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kei language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7208373 — 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: Kei language Context triple: [Central Malayo-Polynesian languages, includesLanguage, Kei language]
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A.
Kawaiisu language
Kawaiisu language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Kawaiisu people of southern California.
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B.
Mikasuki language
The Mikasuki language is a Native American Muskogean language traditionally spoken by the Miccosukee and Seminole peoples of Florida.
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C.
Ishkashimi language
The Ishkashimi language is an Eastern Iranian Pamir language spoken by a small community in the Ishkashim region of Afghanistan and Tajikistan, noted for its endangered status and distinct phonological and grammatical features.
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D.
Kitanemuk language
The Kitanemuk language is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Kitanemuk people of Southern California.
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E.
Miyako language
The Miyako language is a Southern Ryukyuan language of Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture, spoken primarily on the Miyako Islands and noted for its distinct phonology and endangered status.
- 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: Kei language Target entity description: Kei language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the Kei (Kai) Islands in southeastern Maluku, Indonesia.
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A.
Kawaiisu language
Kawaiisu language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Kawaiisu people of southern California.
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B.
Mikasuki language
The Mikasuki language is a Native American Muskogean language traditionally spoken by the Miccosukee and Seminole peoples of Florida.
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C.
Ishkashimi language
The Ishkashimi language is an Eastern Iranian Pamir language spoken by a small community in the Ishkashim region of Afghanistan and Tajikistan, noted for its endangered status and distinct phonological and grammatical features.
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D.
Kitanemuk language
The Kitanemuk language is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Kitanemuk people of Southern California.
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E.
Miyako language
The Miyako language is a Southern Ryukyuan language of Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture, spoken primarily on the Miyako Islands and noted for its distinct phonology and endangered status.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Kai language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Keiese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToBranch | Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coexistsWithLanguage | Indonesian language ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Kei people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Kei Besar Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kei Kecil Island NERFINISHED ⓘ surrounding smaller Kei Islands ⓘ |
| hasBasicWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Kei Besar dialect
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kei Kecil dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Kei ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | kei ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticCode | Glottocode keii1237 ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | moderately agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions) ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| isSpokenPrimarilyBy | indigenous inhabitants of the Kei Islands ⓘ |
| isUsedIn | local daily communication in the Kei Islands ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| region | Southeast Maluku Regency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Kei Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Maluku NERFINISHED ⓘ southeastern Maluku ⓘ |
| subfamily | Central Maluku languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
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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: Kei language Description of subject: Kei language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the Kei (Kai) Islands in southeastern Maluku, Indonesia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Central Malayo-Polynesian languages