South Sulawesi languages
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South Sulawesi languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, known for their significant internal diversity and historical importance in the region.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T200653 — 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: South Sulawesi languages Context triple: [Austronesian languages, hasSubfamily, South Sulawesi languages]
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Southern Luzon languages
The Southern Luzon languages are a subgroup of Philippine Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the southern part of Luzon island in the Philippines, characterized by shared phonological and grammatical features distinct from other Philippine language groups.
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Penutian languages
Penutian languages are a proposed family of Native American languages spoken primarily in the western United States, noted for their controversial genetic relationships and inclusion of several distinct regional language groups.
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C.
Batanic languages
Batanic languages are a small subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Batanes Islands of the northern Philippines and parts of Taiwan, known for their unique phonological and lexical features.
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Meso-Melanesian languages
The Meso-Melanesian languages are a subgroup of Oceanic Austronesian languages spoken primarily in parts of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
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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.
- 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: South Sulawesi languages Target entity description: South Sulawesi languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, known for their significant internal diversity and historical importance in the region.
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A.
Southern Luzon languages
The Southern Luzon languages are a subgroup of Philippine Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the southern part of Luzon island in the Philippines, characterized by shared phonological and grammatical features distinct from other Philippine language groups.
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B.
Penutian languages
Penutian languages are a proposed family of Native American languages spoken primarily in the western United States, noted for their controversial genetic relationships and inclusion of several distinct regional language groups.
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C.
Batanic languages
Batanic languages are a small subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Batanes Islands of the northern Philippines and parts of Taiwan, known for their unique phonological and lexical features.
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D.
Meso-Melanesian languages
The Meso-Melanesian languages are a subgroup of Oceanic Austronesian languages spoken primarily in parts of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
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: South Sulawesi languages Description of subject: South Sulawesi languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, known for their significant internal diversity and historical importance in the region.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Makassarese
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Makassarese language
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Luwu languages
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South Sulawesi subgroup
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South Sulawesi language
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South Sulawesi language
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Proto-South Sulawesi language
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South Sulawesi subgroup of Austronesian
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South Sulawesi linguistic area
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South Sulawesi language
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South Sulawesi subgroup
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South Sulawesi subgroup of Malayo-Polynesian
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South Sulawesi subgroup of Malayo-Polynesian
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South Sulawesi linguistic area
this entity surface form:
Proto-South Sulawesi language
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South Sulawesi language
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South Sulawesi branch of Austronesian