Tondano language
E163766
The Tondano language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tondano people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is one of the traditional Minahasan languages of the region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tondano language canonical | 6 |
| Ethnologue: Tondano | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1431814 — 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: Tondano language Context triple: [Minahasan languages, hasLanguage, Tondano language]
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A.
Enrekang language
The Enrekang language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Enrekang people in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Gorontalo language
The Gorontalo language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the Gorontalo region of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Bolango language
The Bolango language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bolango people of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is closely related to other Gorontalo–Mongondow languages.
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D.
Gorontalo–Mongondow languages
The Gorontalo–Mongondow languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
Tanimbar languages
The Tanimbar languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Tanimbar Islands of eastern Indonesia.
- 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: Tondano language Target entity description: The Tondano language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tondano people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is one of the traditional Minahasan languages of the region.
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A.
Enrekang language
The Enrekang language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Enrekang people in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Gorontalo language
The Gorontalo language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the Gorontalo region of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Bolango language
The Bolango language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bolango people of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is closely related to other Gorontalo–Mongondow languages.
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D.
Gorontalo–Mongondow languages
The Gorontalo–Mongondow languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
Tanimbar languages
The Tanimbar languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Tanimbar Islands of eastern Indonesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Minahasan language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Tondano people ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Minahasa Regency
ⓘ
surface form:
Minahasa Regency, North Sulawesi
around Lake Tondano ⓘ |
| glottocode | tond1259 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Toundano
ⓘ
Toundanou ⓘ Toundanouwe ⓘ Toundanow ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Kakas dialect
ⓘ
Kombi dialect ⓘ Remboken dialect ⓘ Tondano city dialect ⓘ |
| hasEthnologueEntry |
Tondano language
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Ethnologue: Tondano
|
| hasLinguisticClassification | Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Philippine > Minahasan > Tondano ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | voice alternations typical of Western Malayo-Polynesian ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (reported in some analyses)
ⓘ
prenasalized stops ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature | basic SVO word order ⓘ |
| hasWikipediaPage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tondano_language ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | tdn ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Philippine-type Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Bintauna language
ⓘ
surface form:
Bantik language
Tombulu language ⓘ Tonsawang language ⓘ Tontemboan language ⓘ |
| region |
Minahasa Regency
ⓘ
surface form:
Minahasa
|
| spokenBy | Tondano people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
North Sulawesi ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| subgroup | Minahasan languages ⓘ |
| undergoesLanguageShiftTo |
Indonesian
ⓘ
Manado Malay ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication in some Tondano communities ⓘ |
| usedIn | traditional oral literature of the Tondano people ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
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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: Tondano language Description of subject: The Tondano language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tondano people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is one of the traditional Minahasan languages of the region.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ethnologue: Tondano