Mulao language
E901988
The Mulao language is a Kam–Sui language of the Tai–Kadai family spoken by the Mulao ethnic group in southern China.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mulao language canonical | 2 |
| Mulao–Maonan languages | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11012504 — 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: Mulao language Context triple: [Kam language, closelyRelatedTo, Mulao language]
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A.
Maonan language
The Maonan language is a Kam–Sui language of the Tai–Kadai family spoken primarily by the Maonan ethnic group in southern China.
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B.
Nyishi language
The Nyishi language is a Tani (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken primarily by the Nyishi people of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India.
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C.
Saho language
The Saho language is an Afroasiatic Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Saho people in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.
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D.
Munji language
The Munji language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by the Munji people in Afghanistan’s remote Munjan Valley, closely related to the Yidgha language of Pakistan.
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E.
Murle language
The Murle language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Murle people of South Sudan.
- 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: Mulao language Target entity description: The Mulao language is a Kam–Sui language of the Tai–Kadai family spoken by the Mulao ethnic group in southern China.
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A.
Maonan language
The Maonan language is a Kam–Sui language of the Tai–Kadai family spoken primarily by the Maonan ethnic group in southern China.
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B.
Nyishi language
The Nyishi language is a Tani (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken primarily by the Nyishi people of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India.
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C.
Saho language
The Saho language is an Afroasiatic Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Saho people in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.
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D.
Munji language
The Munji language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by the Munji people in Afghanistan’s remote Munjan Valley, closely related to the Yidgha language of Pakistan.
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E.
Murle language
The Murle language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Murle people of South Sudan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kam–Sui language
ⓘ
Tai–Kadai language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Mulam language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mulao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| autonym | Mulam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Kam–Sui branch of Tai–Kadai ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Kam language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maonan language NERFINISHED ⓘ Sui language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mulao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Tai–Kadai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottologCode | mula1248 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Mulam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialects | various local varieties ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
SVO basic word order
ⓘ
classifier system ⓘ tonal language ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | analytic ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tones
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | mlm ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Kam–Sui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Tai–Kadai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryArea | Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | language of an ethnic minority in China ⓘ |
| region | southern China ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Mulao people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
China
ⓘ
Guangxi NERFINISHED ⓘ Guizhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Kam–Sui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
Southwestern Mandarin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Standard Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem | none (traditionally unwritten) ⓘ |
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: Mulao language Description of subject: The Mulao language is a Kam–Sui language of the Tai–Kadai family spoken by the Mulao ethnic group in southern China.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mulao–Maonan languages