Old Sundanese
E1113282
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Old Sundanese is a historical Austronesian language once used in the Sunda region of western Java, preserved in inscriptions and manuscripts that document the culture and literature of the Sundanese people.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Old Sundanese canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14257878 — 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: Old Sundanese Context triple: [Queen Sudevi of Sunda (betrothal, unfulfilled), languageOfContext, Old Sundanese]
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A.
Kawi (Old Javanese)
Kawi (Old Javanese) is an early literary form of the Javanese language used in classical inscriptions and texts across Java and neighboring regions in Southeast Asia.
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B.
Middle Javanese
Middle Javanese is a historical stage of the Javanese language that developed after Old Javanese and served as a key literary and cultural medium in Java during the late medieval period.
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C.
Banyumasan Javanese
Banyumasan Javanese is a regional variety of the Javanese language spoken in the western part of Central Java, Indonesia, known for its distinct phonology, vocabulary, and more conservative linguistic features compared to standard Javanese.
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D.
Proto-Javanese
Proto-Javanese is the reconstructed ancestral language from which modern Javanese and related Javanic languages are believed to have evolved.
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E.
Old Malay
Old Malay is an early historical form of the Malay language that served as a major lingua franca and literary language in maritime Southeast Asia.
- 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: Old Sundanese Target entity description: Old Sundanese is a historical Austronesian language once used in the Sunda region of western Java, preserved in inscriptions and manuscripts that document the culture and literature of the Sundanese people.
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A.
Kawi (Old Javanese)
Kawi (Old Javanese) is an early literary form of the Javanese language used in classical inscriptions and texts across Java and neighboring regions in Southeast Asia.
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B.
Middle Javanese
Middle Javanese is a historical stage of the Javanese language that developed after Old Javanese and served as a key literary and cultural medium in Java during the late medieval period.
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C.
Banyumasan Javanese
Banyumasan Javanese is a regional variety of the Javanese language spoken in the western part of Central Java, Indonesia, known for its distinct phonology, vocabulary, and more conservative linguistic features compared to standard Javanese.
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D.
Proto-Javanese
Proto-Javanese is the reconstructed ancestral language from which modern Javanese and related Javanic languages are believed to have evolved.
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E.
Old Malay
Old Malay is an early historical form of the Malay language that served as a major lingua franca and literary language in maritime Southeast Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.