Tonsawang language
E167955
Tonsawang language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tonsawang people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the Minahasan subgroup.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tonsawang language canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1431812 — 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: Tonsawang language Context triple: [Minahasan languages, hasLanguage, Tonsawang language]
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A.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
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B.
Lamaholot language
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
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C.
Blablanga language
The Blablanga language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Northwest Solomonic subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
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D.
Hoanya language
The Hoanya language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Hoanya people of western Taiwan and classified among the indigenous Formosan languages.
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E.
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.
- 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: Tonsawang language Target entity description: Tonsawang language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tonsawang people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the Minahasan subgroup.
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A.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
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B.
Lamaholot language
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
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C.
Blablanga language
The Blablanga language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Northwest Solomonic subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
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D.
Hoanya language
The Hoanya language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Hoanya people of western Taiwan and classified among the indigenous Formosan languages.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Papunesia ⓘ |
| classification | Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Philippine-type > Minahasan > Tonsawang ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Tombulu language
ⓘ
Tondano language ⓘ Tonsea language ⓘ Tontemboan language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Tonsawang people ⓘ |
| family |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian
|
| glottologCode | tons1249 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Tonsawang ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Tonsawang
ⓘ
surface form:
Tonsawang-Toundanow
Toundanow language ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Tonsawang proper
ⓘ
Toundano ⓘ
surface form:
Toundanow
|
| hasFeature |
focus system
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rich verbal affixation ⓘ voice system typical of Philippine-type languages ⓘ |
| hasLexicalSimilarityWith | other Minahasan languages ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions)
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rich consonant inventory typical of Minahasan languages ⓘ |
| hasResearch | descriptive grammars and wordlists by field linguists ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature |
prepositions rather than postpositions
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use of clitic pronouns ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Indonesia ⓘ |
| iso639-3 | tnw ⓘ |
| languageFamilyBranch |
Minahasan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Minahasan subgroup
Philippine-type subgroup ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Sulawesi linguistic area ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| region | North Sulawesi ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Tonsawang people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
North Sulawesi ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Minahasan languages ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
shift to Indonesian
ⓘ
shift to Manado Malay ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication within Tonsawang communities ⓘ |
| wordOrder | verb–initial ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
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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: Tonsawang language Description of subject: Tonsawang language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tonsawang people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the Minahasan subgroup.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.