Selayar language
E150101
The Selayar language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Selayar Island in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bahasa Selayar | 1 |
| Selayar language canonical | 1 |
| Selayarese | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1322785 — 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: Selayar language Context triple: [South Sulawesi languages, hasSubgroup, Selayar language]
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A.
Banggai language
The Banggai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Banggai people in the Banggai Islands and nearby coastal areas of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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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.
Banjar language
The Banjar language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Banjar people of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, and is considered a regional variety closely associated with the broader Malay linguistic family.
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D.
Ketagalan language
The Ketagalan language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Ketagalan people in northern Taiwan, traditionally classified among the Formosan languages.
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E.
Rejang languages
The Rejang languages are a small group of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in southwestern Sumatra, Indonesia, known for their distinctive phonology and use of the traditional Rejang script.
- 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: Selayar language Target entity description: The Selayar language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Selayar Island in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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A.
Banggai language
The Banggai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Banggai people in the Banggai Islands and nearby coastal areas of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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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.
Banjar language
The Banjar language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Banjar people of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, and is considered a regional variety closely associated with the broader Malay linguistic family.
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D.
Ketagalan language
The Ketagalan language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Ketagalan people in northern Taiwan, traditionally classified among the Formosan languages.
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E.
Rejang languages
The Rejang languages are a small group of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in southwestern Sumatra, Indonesia, known for their distinctive phonology and use of the traditional Rejang script.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| belongsToBranch | South Sulawesi subgroup (often classified) ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable (variously assessed) ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Selayar people ⓘ |
| glottologCode | sela1250 ⓘ |
| glottologName |
Selayar Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Selayar
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Selayar language
ⓘ
surface form:
Bahasa Selayar
Selayar Malay ⓘ Selayarese ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
northern Selayar dialect
ⓘ
southern Selayar dialect ⓘ |
| hasDomainOfUse |
home
ⓘ
local markets ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResearchOn |
morphosyntax
ⓘ
phonology ⓘ verb morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions)
ⓘ
five-vowel system (approximate) ⓘ prenasalized stops ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | sly ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
South Sulawesi languages
ⓘ
surface form:
South Sulawesi linguistic area
|
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| lexicalSimilarityWith |
Konjo language
ⓘ
surface form:
Konjo language (moderate)
Makassarese language (moderate) ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC+8 ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Bugis language
ⓘ
Konjo language ⓘ Makassarese ⓘ
surface form:
Makassarese language
|
| notOfficialLanguageOf | Indonesia ⓘ |
| region |
Selayar Islands
ⓘ
Celebes ⓘ
surface form:
Sulawesi
|
| shiftPressureFrom |
Indonesian language
ⓘ
Makassarese ⓘ
surface form:
Makassarese language
|
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Selayar Islands ⓘ
surface form:
Selayar Island
South Sulawesi ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
SVO basic word order
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agglutinative morphology ⓘ prepositional language ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication in rural areas of Selayar Island ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
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: Selayar language Description of subject: The Selayar language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Selayar Island in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bahasa Selayar
this entity surface form:
Selayarese