Yaur language
E695186
The Yaur language is an Austronesian language spoken by an indigenous community in the South Halmahera–West New Guinea region of eastern Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yaur language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7823214 — 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: Yaur language Context triple: [South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages, hasMember, Yaur language]
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A.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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B.
Yavitero language
The Yavitero language is an extinct Arawakan language once spoken by the Yavitero people along the Orinoco River region of Venezuela and Colombia.
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C.
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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D.
Yulu language
The Yulu language is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Yulu people in parts of South Sudan and the Central African Republic.
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E.
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.
- 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: Yaur language Target entity description: The Yaur language is an Austronesian language spoken by an indigenous community in the South Halmahera–West New Guinea region of eastern Indonesia.
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A.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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B.
Yavitero language
The Yavitero language is an extinct Arawakan language once spoken by the Yavitero people along the Orinoco River region of Venezuela and Colombia.
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C.
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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D.
Yulu language
The Yulu language is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Yulu people in parts of South Sudan and the Central African Republic.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangermentCause | language shift to Indonesian ⓘ |
| ethnicity | indigenous community in South Halmahera–West New Guinea ⓘ |
| family | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| geneticClassificationLevel | South Halmahera–West New Guinea branch of Austronesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpeakers | small population ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | jau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamilyBranch | Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamilyNode | Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (proposed higher subgroup) ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Papua region of Indonesia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Western New Guinea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| macroregion | eastern Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialStatus | no official status at national level ⓘ |
| region | South Halmahera–West New Guinea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Yaur people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn | New Guinea region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status |
endangered language
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minority language ⓘ |
| subfamily | South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature | likely SVO basic word order ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication within Yaur community ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
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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: Yaur language Description of subject: The Yaur language is an Austronesian language spoken by an indigenous community in the South Halmahera–West New Guinea region of eastern Indonesia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.