Wolio language
E135943
The Wolio language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, and serves as an important regional lingua franca.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wolio language canonical | 11 |
| Bahasa Wolio | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1199515 — 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: Wolio language Context triple: [Celebic languages, hasMember, Wolio language]
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A.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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B.
Kamviri language
The Kamviri language is a Nuristani language spoken primarily by the Kam people in parts of eastern Afghanistan and neighboring regions of Pakistan.
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C.
Luri language
Luri language is a Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Lur people in western and southwestern Iran.
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D.
Kiliwa language
The Kiliwa language is an endangered indigenous language spoken by the Kiliwa people of northern Baja California, Mexico, known for its highly complex verbal morphology and status as one of the last surviving isolates within the Yuman linguistic area.
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E.
Walapai language
The Walapai language is a Native American language of the Yuman family traditionally spoken by the Hualapai people of northwestern Arizona.
- 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: Wolio language Target entity description: The Wolio language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, and serves as an important regional lingua franca.
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A.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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B.
Kamviri language
The Kamviri language is a Nuristani language spoken primarily by the Kam people in parts of eastern Afghanistan and neighboring regions of Pakistan.
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C.
Luri language
Luri language is a Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Lur people in western and southwestern Iran.
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D.
Kiliwa language
The Kiliwa language is an endangered indigenous language spoken by the Kiliwa people of northern Baja California, Mexico, known for its highly complex verbal morphology and status as one of the last surviving isolates within the Yuman linguistic area.
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E.
Walapai language
The Walapai language is a Native American language of the Yuman family traditionally spoken by the Hualapai people of northwestern Arizona.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| branchOf |
Celebic languages
ⓘ
Muna–Buton languages ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Cia-Cia language
ⓘ
Kaimbulawa language ⓘ Lasalimu language ⓘ Muna language ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Butonese people
ⓘ
Wolio people ⓘ |
| glottocode | woli1242 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Wolio ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Wolio language
ⓘ
surface form:
Bahasa Wolio
Butonese Wolio ⓘ |
| hasEndangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticArea | Sulawesi linguistic area ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
Arabic
ⓘ
surface form:
Arabic language
Dutch ⓘ
surface form:
Dutch language
|
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
ⓘ
prenasalized stops ⓘ |
| hasRole |
regional lingua franca
ⓘ
trade language ⓘ |
| hasStatus | regional language in Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Indonesian language
ⓘ
Malay ⓘ
surface form:
Malay language
|
| ISO639-3 | wlo ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| primaryCity | Baubau ⓘ |
| region |
Southeast Sulawesi
ⓘ
surface form:
Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
|
| spokenIn |
Buton Island
ⓘ
Buton Regency ⓘ Indonesia ⓘ Southeast Sulawesi ⓘ Celebes ⓘ
surface form:
Sulawesi
|
| subfamilyOf | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| usedAs |
lingua franca in Baubau area
ⓘ
lingua franca on Buton Island ⓘ |
| usedInDomain |
Islamic religious texts (historically, in Arabic script)
ⓘ
local administration (historically) ⓘ traditional literature ⓘ |
| usesScriptHistorically |
Arabic alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Arabic script
Buri Wolio script ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Arabic script
ⓘ
Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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: Wolio language Description of subject: The Wolio language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, and serves as an important regional lingua franca.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bahasa Wolio