Modern Javanese
E15563
Modern Javanese is the contemporary Austronesian language spoken primarily on the island of Java, characterized by a complex speech level system and a vocabulary significantly shaped by earlier Kawi (Old Javanese) and other historical influences.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modern Javanese canonical | 6 |
| Standard Javanese | 2 |
| Central Javanese | 1 |
| New Javanese | 1 |
| Surakarta dialect | 1 |
| Western Javanese | 1 |
| Yogyakarta dialect | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T124875 — 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: Modern Javanese Context triple: [Kawi (Old Javanese), influenced, Modern Javanese]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Sundanese
The Sundanese are an indigenous ethnic group of western Java in Indonesia, known for their distinct language, rich musical and dance traditions, and agrarian culture.
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D.
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.
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E.
Balinese script
Balinese script is an abugida used primarily on the Indonesian island of Bali for writing the Balinese language, as well as liturgical and historical texts in Sanskrit and Old Javanese.
- 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: Modern Javanese Target entity description: Modern Javanese is the contemporary Austronesian language spoken primarily on the island of Java, characterized by a complex speech level system and a vocabulary significantly shaped by earlier Kawi (Old Javanese) and other historical influences.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Sundanese
The Sundanese are an indigenous ethnic group of western Java in Indonesia, known for their distinct language, rich musical and dance traditions, and agrarian culture.
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D.
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.
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E.
Balinese script
Balinese script is an abugida used primarily on the Indonesian island of Bali for writing the Balinese language, as well as liturgical and historical texts in Sanskrit and Old Javanese.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Javanese language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| coexistsWith |
Indonesian
ⓘ
surface form:
Indonesian language
|
| derivedFrom |
Kawi (Old Javanese)
ⓘ
surface form:
Old Javanese
|
| developedFrom | Kawi literature tradition ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Javanese ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Austronesian
ⓘ
Proto-Javanese ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ
surface form:
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
|
| hasFeature |
SVO basic word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ complex speech level system ⓘ elaborate honorific system ⓘ phonemic vowel length distinctions in some dialects ⓘ rich affixation ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | java1254 ⓘ |
| hasISOCode | jv ⓘ |
| hasMajorDialect |
Modern Javanese
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Javanese
Eastern Javanese ⓘ Modern Javanese self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Western Javanese
|
| hasSpeechLevel |
krama
ⓘ
krama inggil ⓘ madya ⓘ ngoko ⓘ |
| hasStandardVariety |
Modern Javanese
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Surakarta dialect
Modern Javanese self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Yogyakarta dialect
|
| hasWritingSystem |
Perso-Arabic script
ⓘ
surface form:
Arabic script (Pegon)
Javanese script ⓘ Latin script ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Arabic
ⓘ
Dutch ⓘ Indonesian ⓘ Kawi language ⓘ
surface form:
Kawi
Malay ⓘ Sanskrit ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian
Javanic ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ
surface form:
Malayo-Polynesian
|
| primaryRegion |
Java
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Java
East Java ⓘ Yogyakarta ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Java ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Javanic language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Western Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ |
| timePeriod | modern era ⓘ |
| usedAs | vernacular language in Java ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Javanese
ⓘ
surface form:
Javanese people
|
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: Modern Javanese Description of subject: Modern Javanese is the contemporary Austronesian language spoken primarily on the island of Java, characterized by a complex speech level system and a vocabulary significantly shaped by earlier Kawi (Old Javanese) and other historical influences.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Surakarta dialect
this entity surface form:
Yogyakarta dialect
this entity surface form:
Central Javanese
this entity surface form:
Western Javanese
this entity surface form:
New Javanese
this entity surface form:
Standard Javanese
this entity surface form:
Standard Javanese