Taba language
E661507
Taba is an Austronesian language spoken in eastern Indonesia, particularly on the island of Makian in North Maluku.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Taba language canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7408061 — 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: Taba language Context triple: [Gane language, hasNeighborLanguage, Taba language]
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A.
Tubatulabal language
The Tubatulabal language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Tubatulabal people of the southern Sierra Nevada region in California.
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B.
Tawala language
Tawala language is an Austronesian language of the Papuan Tip region of Papua New Guinea, spoken primarily in coastal communities of Milne Bay Province.
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C.
Kaxabu language
The Kaxabu language is an indigenous Formosan language of Taiwan spoken by the Kaxabu people and considered highly endangered.
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D.
Tawbuid language
The Tawbuid language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tawbuid (Batangan) Mangyan people of Mindoro in the Philippines, closely related to other South Mangyan languages.
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E.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
- 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: Taba language Target entity description: Taba is an Austronesian language spoken in eastern Indonesia, particularly on the island of Makian in North Maluku.
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A.
Tubatulabal language
The Tubatulabal language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Tubatulabal people of the southern Sierra Nevada region in California.
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B.
Tawala language
Tawala language is an Austronesian language of the Papuan Tip region of Papua New Guinea, spoken primarily in coastal communities of Milne Bay Province.
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C.
Kaxabu language
The Kaxabu language is an indigenous Formosan language of Taiwan spoken by the Kaxabu people and considered highly endangered.
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D.
Tawbuid language
The Tawbuid language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tawbuid (Batangan) Mangyan people of Mindoro in the Philippines, closely related to other South Mangyan languages.
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E.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Makian (East)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Makian language (East Makian) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tabayama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| documentedIn | grammatical descriptions and dictionaries by field linguists ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| family | Austronesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottocode | taba1267 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Taba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialect | varieties associated with different villages on Makian Island ⓘ |
| hasDomainOfUse |
home and local community
ⓘ
traditional culture ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
aspectual distinctions
ⓘ
possessive constructions with pronominal clitics ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ subject agreement markers on verbs ⓘ |
| hasMajorContactLanguage | Indonesian ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (reported in some analyses)
ⓘ
prenasalized stops ⓘ |
| hasResearcher |
David Gil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gary Holton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalProfile | Austronesian language with strong contact influence from North Halmahera and Malay ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Malay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ternate language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | mqa ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| languageFamilyBranch | South Halmahera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Halmahera region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maluku Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage | West Makian language (North Halmahera family) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notToBeConfusedWith | West Makian language ⓘ |
| partOf | linguistic area of North Maluku ⓘ |
| primaryIsland | Makian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
North Maluku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenOn | Makian Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
South Halmahera language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Halmahera–West New Guinea language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subgroup |
Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Halmahera–West New Guinea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedByEthnicGroup | Makian people (eastern Makian) 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: Taba language Description of subject: Taba is an Austronesian language spoken in eastern Indonesia, particularly on the island of Makian in North Maluku.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.