Mah Meri language
E783993
The Mah Meri language is an Austroasiatic Aslian language spoken by the Mah Meri indigenous people of Peninsular Malaysia, known for its endangered status and rich oral traditions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mah Meri language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9192181 — 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: Mah Meri language Context triple: [Aslian languages, hasMemberLanguage, Mah Meri language]
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A.
Kumaoni language
Kumaoni language is an Indo-Aryan language of the Central Pahari group spoken primarily in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, India.
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B.
Kharia language
Kharia language is a Munda language spoken primarily by the Kharia people in eastern India, especially in the states of Jharkhand, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh.
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C.
Meru language
The Meru language is a Bantu language spoken by the Meru people of central Kenya, closely related to Kikuyu and other Mount Kenya languages.
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D.
Belhare language
The Belhare language is a Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan family spoken by the Belhare community in eastern Nepal.
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E.
Tharawal language
Tharawal language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Tharawal people of coastal New South Wales, south of Sydney.
- 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: Mah Meri language Target entity description: The Mah Meri language is an Austroasiatic Aslian language spoken by the Mah Meri indigenous people of Peninsular Malaysia, known for its endangered status and rich oral traditions.
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A.
Kumaoni language
Kumaoni language is an Indo-Aryan language of the Central Pahari group spoken primarily in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, India.
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B.
Kharia language
Kharia language is a Munda language spoken primarily by the Kharia people in eastern India, especially in the states of Jharkhand, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh.
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C.
Meru language
The Meru language is a Bantu language spoken by the Meru people of central Kenya, closely related to Kikuyu and other Mount Kenya languages.
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D.
Belhare language
The Belhare language is a Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan family spoken by the Belhare community in eastern Nepal.
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E.
Tharawal language
Tharawal language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Tharawal people of coastal New South Wales, south of Sydney.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Aslian language
ⓘ
Austroasiatic language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Besisi
ⓘ
Besisi’ NERFINISHED ⓘ Betsisi NERFINISHED ⓘ Mah Meri’ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Semelai language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Temuan language NERFINISHED ⓘ other Southern Aslian languages ⓘ |
| country | Malaysia ⓘ |
| endangerment | definitely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mah Meri people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Mah Meri (Carey Island variety)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mah Meri (mainland Selangor variety) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
oral literature
ⓘ
ritual speech ⓘ storytelling ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | mahm1236 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Mah Meri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | mhe ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticArea | Malay Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | little inflectional morphology ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakers | a few thousand speakers ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
complex vowel system
ⓘ
contrastive nasalization ⓘ rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasTypology | analytic language ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austroasiatic ⓘ |
| name | Mah Meri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Carey Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Selangor NERFINISHED ⓘ coastal Selangor ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Mah Meri people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Malaysia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peninsular Malaysia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | endangered ⓘ |
| subfamily | Aslian ⓘ |
| subgroup | Southern Aslian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
endangered language revitalization efforts
ⓘ
language documentation projects ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
intermarriage with non-speakers
ⓘ
language shift to Malay ⓘ urbanization ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication within community
ⓘ
ritual ceremonies ⓘ |
| 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: Mah Meri language Description of subject: The Mah Meri language is an Austroasiatic Aslian language spoken by the Mah Meri indigenous people of Peninsular Malaysia, known for its endangered status and rich oral traditions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.