Konjo language
E150102
The Konjo language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Konjo people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its distinct coastal and highland dialects.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Konjo language canonical | 3 |
| Coastal Konjo language | 2 |
| Basa Konjo | 1 |
| Konjo language (moderate) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1322787 — 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: Konjo language Context triple: [South Sulawesi languages, hasSubgroup, Konjo language]
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A.
Ewondo language
Ewondo is a Bantu language spoken primarily in central Cameroon, notably around the capital Yaoundé, by the Ewondo (Yaoundé) people.
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B.
Nupe language
The Nupe language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Nupe people in central Nigeria, especially in the Middle Belt region.
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C.
Tsonga language
The Tsonga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Africa, especially in Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe.
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D.
Kalanguya language
The Kalanguya language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalanguya people in the northern Luzon highlands of the Philippines.
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E.
Dinka language
The Dinka language is a Western Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Dinka people of South Sudan, known for its complex system of tones and vowel lengths.
- 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: Konjo language Target entity description: The Konjo language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Konjo people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its distinct coastal and highland dialects.
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A.
Ewondo language
Ewondo is a Bantu language spoken primarily in central Cameroon, notably around the capital Yaoundé, by the Ewondo (Yaoundé) people.
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B.
Nupe language
The Nupe language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Nupe people in central Nigeria, especially in the Middle Belt region.
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C.
Tsonga language
The Tsonga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Africa, especially in Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe.
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D.
Kalanguya language
The Kalanguya language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalanguya people in the northern Luzon highlands of the Philippines.
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E.
Dinka language
The Dinka language is a Western Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Dinka people of South Sudan, known for its complex system of tones and vowel lengths.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian language family
|
| closelyRelatedTo |
Bentong language
ⓘ
Makassarese ⓘ
surface form:
Makassarese language
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| dialectalDivision | coastal vs. highland varieties ⓘ |
| endonym |
Konjo language
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Basa Konjo
|
| ethnicGroup | Konjo people ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | southern part of Sulawesi island ⓘ |
| glottocode | konj1267 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Konjo ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Konjo (Sulawesi)
ⓘ
Konjo, Coastal ⓘ Konjo, Highland ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
coastal Konjo dialect
ⓘ
highland Konjo dialect ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResource | descriptive grammars and wordlists in academic literature ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Bugis
ⓘ
Makassarese ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions)
ⓘ
prenasalized stops (in some positions) ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticStatus | regional language in Indonesia ⓘ |
| isDistinctFrom | Konjo language of Ethiopia ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | kjc ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Sunda-Sulawesi languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Makassaric languages
|
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| region |
Celebes
ⓘ
surface form:
Sulawesi
|
| spokenBy | Konjo people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
South Sulawesi ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| subgroup | South Sulawesi languages ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
verb–initial tendencies ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication among Konjo people ⓘ |
| usedIn | traditional oral literature of Konjo people ⓘ |
| 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: Konjo language Description of subject: The Konjo language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Konjo people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its distinct coastal and highland dialects.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Coastal Konjo language
this entity surface form:
Konjo language (moderate)
this entity surface form:
Basa Konjo
this entity surface form:
Coastal Konjo language