Proto-Barito language
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Proto-Barito language is a reconstructed ancestral Austronesian language that gave rise to the Barito subgroup of languages spoken primarily in southern Borneo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Proto-Barito language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8751168 — 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: Proto-Barito language Context triple: [Sampit language, hasAncestor, Proto-Barito language]
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A.
Proto-Celebic language
Proto-Celebic language is a reconstructed ancestral Austronesian language that gave rise to the Celebic subgroup of languages spoken primarily on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.
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B.
Batanic languages
Batanic languages are a small subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Batanes Islands of the northern Philippines and parts of Taiwan, known for their unique phonological and lexical features.
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C.
Barbacoan languages
The Barbacoan languages are a small family of indigenous languages spoken primarily in Colombia and Ecuador, known for their complex phonology and close association with the Andean and northwestern South American cultural area.
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D.
Bantoid languages
The Bantoid languages are a major branch of the Niger-Congo language family that includes the widespread Bantu languages spoken across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
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E.
Aeta languages
The Aeta languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken by the indigenous Aeta (Negrito) communities in various regions of the Philippines.
- 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: Proto-Barito language Target entity description: Proto-Barito language is a reconstructed ancestral Austronesian language that gave rise to the Barito subgroup of languages spoken primarily in southern Borneo.
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A.
Proto-Celebic language
Proto-Celebic language is a reconstructed ancestral Austronesian language that gave rise to the Celebic subgroup of languages spoken primarily on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.
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B.
Batanic languages
Batanic languages are a small subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Batanes Islands of the northern Philippines and parts of Taiwan, known for their unique phonological and lexical features.
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C.
Barbacoan languages
The Barbacoan languages are a small family of indigenous languages spoken primarily in Colombia and Ecuador, known for their complex phonology and close association with the Andean and northwestern South American cultural area.
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D.
Bantoid languages
The Bantoid languages are a major branch of the Niger-Congo language family that includes the widespread Bantu languages spoken across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
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E.
Aeta languages
The Aeta languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken by the indigenous Aeta (Negrito) communities in various regions of the Philippines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
proto-language ⓘ reconstructed language ⓘ |
| ancestorOf |
Bakumpai language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Barito languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Dusun Malang language NERFINISHED ⓘ Dusun Witu language NERFINISHED ⓘ East Barito languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Maanyan language NERFINISHED ⓘ Malagasy language NERFINISHED ⓘ Ngaju language NERFINISHED ⓘ West Barito languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classificationProposedBy | Austronesian comparativists ⓘ |
| descendantLanguagesLocation |
Borneo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Madagascar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Austronesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottocode | none (reconstructed only) ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Austronesian alignment
ⓘ
numeral classifier-like constructions ⓘ reduplicative morphology ⓘ rich affixal morphology ⓘ voice alternations ⓘ |
| influenced | reconstruction of Proto-Malagasy ⓘ |
| isNot | directly attested language ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | none ⓘ |
| lexicalSimilarityWith | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ |
| parentLanguage | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ |
| phonologicalSystem | simple consonant inventory (reconstructed) ⓘ |
| reconstructedBy | comparative method ⓘ |
| reconstructionBasis | Barito languages comparative data ⓘ |
| region |
Kalimantan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southern Borneo ⓘ |
| status |
reconstructed
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unattested ⓘ |
| studiedInField |
Austronesian linguistics
ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Barito languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subgroupWithin | Barito subgroup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeDepth | prehistoric ⓘ |
| writingSystem | none ⓘ |
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: Proto-Barito language Description of subject: Proto-Barito language is a reconstructed ancestral Austronesian language that gave rise to the Barito subgroup of languages spoken primarily in southern Borneo.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.