Visayan languages
E230506
The Visayan languages are a major group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the central and southern Philippines, including widely used varieties such as Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Waray.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Visayan languages canonical | 13 |
| Bisayan languages | 6 |
| Visayan language | 2 |
| Visayan (Bisayan) language family | 1 |
| Visayan ethnolinguistic groups | 1 |
| Visayan language area | 1 |
| Visayan language family | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2054308 — 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: Visayan languages Context triple: [Binisaya, subgroup, Visayan languages]
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A.
Philippine–Cordilleran languages
The Philippine–Cordilleran languages are a major subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in the northern Philippines, encompassing numerous indigenous languages of the Cordillera region and surrounding areas.
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B.
Palawano languages
The Palawano languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily by the Palawano people on the island of Palawan in the Philippines.
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C.
Manobo languages
The Manobo languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily by various Manobo ethnic groups in Mindanao in the southern Philippines.
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D.
Danao languages
The Danao languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the southern Philippines, including languages such as Maranao, Maguindanaon, and Iranun.
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E.
Saluan–Banggai languages
The Saluan–Banggai languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi and surrounding islands in 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: Visayan languages Target entity description: The Visayan languages are a major group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the central and southern Philippines, including widely used varieties such as Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Waray.
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A.
Philippine–Cordilleran languages
The Philippine–Cordilleran languages are a major subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in the northern Philippines, encompassing numerous indigenous languages of the Cordillera region and surrounding areas.
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B.
Palawano languages
The Palawano languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily by the Palawano people on the island of Palawan in the Philippines.
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C.
Manobo languages
The Manobo languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily by various Manobo ethnic groups in Mindanao in the southern Philippines.
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D.
Danao languages
The Danao languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the southern Philippines, including languages such as Maranao, Maguindanaon, and Iranun.
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E.
Saluan–Banggai languages
The Saluan–Banggai languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi and surrounding islands in Indonesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Visayan languages Description of subject: The Visayan languages are a major group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the central and southern Philippines, including widely used varieties such as Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Waray.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Visayan language
this entity surface form:
Bisayan languages
this entity surface form:
Visayan language
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Visayan ethnolinguistic groups
this entity surface form:
Bisayan languages
this entity surface form:
Visayan (Bisayan) language family
this entity surface form:
Bisayan languages
this entity surface form:
Visayan language family
this entity surface form:
Bisayan languages
this entity surface form:
Bisayan languages
this entity surface form:
Bisayan languages