Dengka language
E809246
The Dengka language is an Austronesian language spoken on Rote Island in Indonesia, belonging to the Rote branch of the Timor–Babar languages.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dengka language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9577651 — 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: Dengka language Context triple: [Rote languages, hasPart, Dengka language]
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A.
Daakaka language
The Daakaka language is an Oceanic language spoken by communities on Ambrym Island in Vanuatu.
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B.
Kedayan language
The Kedayan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Kedayan people of Brunei, Sabah, and parts of Borneo, closely related to Malay and other Greater North Borneo languages.
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C.
Uduk language
The Uduk language is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken primarily by the Uduk people of eastern Sudan and western Ethiopia.
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D.
Pangcah language
The Pangcah language, more widely known as Amis, is an Austronesian language spoken by the Amis (Pangcah) indigenous people of eastern Taiwan.
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E.
Wik-Mungkan language
Wik-Mungkan is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Wik-Mungkan people of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland and is one of the better-documented members of the Pama–Nyungan family.
- 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: Dengka language Target entity description: The Dengka language is an Austronesian language spoken on Rote Island in Indonesia, belonging to the Rote branch of the Timor–Babar languages.
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A.
Daakaka language
The Daakaka language is an Oceanic language spoken by communities on Ambrym Island in Vanuatu.
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B.
Kedayan language
The Kedayan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Kedayan people of Brunei, Sabah, and parts of Borneo, closely related to Malay and other Greater North Borneo languages.
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C.
Uduk language
The Uduk language is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken primarily by the Uduk people of eastern Sudan and western Ethiopia.
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D.
Pangcah language
The Pangcah language, more widely known as Amis, is an Austronesian language spoken by the Amis (Pangcah) indigenous people of eastern Taiwan.
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E.
Wik-Mungkan language
Wik-Mungkan is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Wik-Mungkan people of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland and is one of the better-documented members of the Pama–Nyungan family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| branch | Rote languages ⓘ |
| classificationAuthority |
Ethnologue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glottolog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| family | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| glottocode | deng1265 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Dengka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialects | Oenale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticDescription | grammatical sketches in Austronesian linguistics literature ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | dnk ⓘ |
| isSpokenBy | Dengka people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Rote branch ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian
|
| languageStatus | minority language ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Timor–Alor–Pantar area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | western Rote Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| macroArea | Papunesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Lole language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oenale language ⓘ Termanu language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phonologicalFeature | contrastive vowel length (reported for some Rote languages) ⓘ |
| region | Lesser Sunda Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Dela-Oenale language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lole language NERFINISHED ⓘ Termanu language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| script | Latin script ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
East Nusa Tenggara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ Rote Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| subgroup |
Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Timor–Babar languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
SVO basic word order
ⓘ
prefixing and suffixing morphology ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Dengka language Description of subject: The Dengka language is an Austronesian language spoken on Rote Island in Indonesia, belonging to the Rote branch of the Timor–Babar languages.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.