Selaaru
E650919
Selaaru is an Austronesian language spoken on Selaru Island in Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Selaaru canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7208334 — 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: Selaaru Context triple: [Selaru language, hasAlternativeName, Selaaru]
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A.
Sela
Sela is a feminine given name most notably borne by American actress Sela Ward.
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B.
Sela
Sela was an ancient rock-hewn stronghold and key urban center of the Edomite kingdom, strategically located in the rugged mountains south of the Dead Sea.
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C.
Yasa'ur
Yasa'ur was a Mongol prince and military leader who played a significant role in the politics and conflicts of the Chagatai Khanate during the early 14th century.
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D.
Laerru
Laerru is a small municipality in the Gallura region of northern Sardinia, Italy, known for its rural character and traditional Sardinian culture.
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E.
Liluah
Liluah is a suburban locality in the Howrah district of West Bengal, India, known for its residential areas and railway facilities near Kolkata.
- 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: Selaaru Target entity description: Selaaru is an Austronesian language spoken on Selaru Island in Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands.
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A.
Sela
Sela is a feminine given name most notably borne by American actress Sela Ward.
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B.
Sela
Sela was an ancient rock-hewn stronghold and key urban center of the Edomite kingdom, strategically located in the rugged mountains south of the Dead Sea.
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C.
Yasa'ur
Yasa'ur was a Mongol prince and military leader who played a significant role in the politics and conflicts of the Chagatai Khanate during the early 14th century.
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D.
Laerru
Laerru is a small municipality in the Gallura region of northern Sardinia, Italy, known for its rural character and traditional Sardinian culture.
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E.
Liluah
Liluah is a suburban locality in the Howrah district of West Bengal, India, known for its residential areas and railway facilities near Kolkata.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Selaaru
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Selaru NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | sela1250 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Selaru NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | slu ⓘ |
| hasLanguageCodeType | ISO 639-3 ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology | subject–verb–object word order ⓘ |
| hasPhylum | Austronesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStatus | local language in Maluku ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Austronesian language family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian branch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSpokenBy | Selaru Island inhabitants ⓘ |
| isSpokenInArchipelago | Tanimbar Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSpokenOn | Selaru Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| region |
Southeast Maluku
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Maluku province NERFINISHED ⓘ Selaru Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Tanimbar Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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: Selaaru Description of subject: Selaaru is an Austronesian language spoken on Selaru Island in Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.