Toraja-Saʼdan language
E153924
The Toraja-Saʼdan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Toraja people in the highland regions of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toraja language | 7 |
| Toraja languages | 5 |
| Toraja-Saʼdan language canonical | 3 |
| Toraja-Sa’dan language | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1322770 — 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: Toraja-Saʼdan language Context triple: [South Sulawesi languages, hasSubgroup, Toraja-Saʼdan language]
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A.
Mari language
The Mari language is a Uralic language spoken primarily by the Mari people in the Mari El Republic and surrounding regions of Russia, known for its distinct dialects and rich oral tradition.
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B.
Seediq language
The Seediq language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Seediq indigenous people of central Taiwan, known for its complex verb morphology and rich system of focus and voice.
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C.
Sabine language
The Sabine language was an extinct Italic tongue once spoken by the ancient Sabine people of central Italy, closely related to other Osco-Umbrian languages.
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D.
Saluan language
The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
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.
- 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: Toraja-Saʼdan language Target entity description: The Toraja-Saʼdan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Toraja people in the highland regions of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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A.
Mari language
The Mari language is a Uralic language spoken primarily by the Mari people in the Mari El Republic and surrounding regions of Russia, known for its distinct dialects and rich oral tradition.
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B.
Seediq language
The Seediq language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Seediq indigenous people of central Taiwan, known for its complex verb morphology and rich system of focus and voice.
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C.
Sabine language
The Sabine language was an extinct Italic tongue once spoken by the ancient Sabine people of central Italy, closely related to other Osco-Umbrian languages.
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D.
Saluan language
The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
Bima language
Bima language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, known for its distinct grammar and vocabulary within the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
South Sulawesi languages
ⓘ
surface form:
South Sulawesi subgroup of Malayo-Polynesian
|
| closelyRelatedTo |
Kalumpang language
ⓘ
Mamasa language ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Toraja people ⓘ |
| geneticClassification |
South Sulawesi languages
ⓘ
surface form:
South Sulawesi subgroup
|
| glottologCode | sada1249 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Saʼdan-Toraja ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Saʼdan
ⓘ
Saʼdan Toraja ⓘ Toraja ⓘ |
| hasBibleTranslation | partial ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Kesuʼ dialect
ⓘ
Makale dialect ⓘ Mengkendek dialect ⓘ Rantepao dialect ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
local administration in Toraja areas
ⓘ
religious discourse ⓘ traditional arts ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Indonesian language ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | sda ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| linguisticResearchOn |
discourse structure
ⓘ
morphosyntax ⓘ phonology ⓘ |
| primaryArea |
North Toraja Regency
ⓘ
Tana Toraja Regency ⓘ |
| region | highland regions of South Sulawesi ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Toraja people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
South Sulawesi ⓘ |
| standardizedOrthography | yes ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
South Sulawesi languages
ⓘ
surface form:
South Sulawesi language
|
| typologicalFeature |
focus-like voice system
ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ verb–initial tendencies ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication among Toraja people
ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ traditional rituals ⓘ |
| 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: Toraja-Saʼdan language Description of subject: The Toraja-Saʼdan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Toraja people in the highland regions of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Toraja languages
this entity surface form:
Toraja language
this entity surface form:
Toraja-Sa’dan language
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Toraja-Sa’dan language
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Toraja languages
this entity surface form:
Toraja-Sa’dan language
this entity surface form:
Toraja languages
this entity surface form:
Toraja languages
this entity surface form:
Toraja language
this entity surface form:
Toraja language
this entity surface form:
Toraja language
this entity surface form:
Toraja language
this entity surface form:
Toraja language
this entity surface form:
Toraja language