Minahasan languages
E30463
Minahasan languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken by the Minahasan people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minahasan languages canonical | 13 |
| Minahasan language | 2 |
| Minahasan language group | 1 |
| Minahasan subgroup | 1 |
| Proto-Minahasan language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T200682 — 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: Minahasan languages Context triple: [Austronesian languages, hasSubfamily, Minahasan languages]
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A.
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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B.
South Sulawesi languages
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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C.
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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D.
Celebic–South Halmahera languages
The Celebic–South Halmahera languages are a proposed subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in Sulawesi and the southern Halmahera region of eastern Indonesia.
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E.
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.
- 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: Minahasan languages Target entity description: Minahasan languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken by the Minahasan people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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A.
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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B.
South Sulawesi languages
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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C.
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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D.
Celebic–South Halmahera languages
The Celebic–South Halmahera languages are a proposed subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in Sulawesi and the southern Halmahera region of eastern Indonesia.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
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: Minahasan languages Description of subject: Minahasan languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken by the Minahasan people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Minahasan language group
this entity surface form:
Minahasan language
this entity surface form:
Proto-Minahasan language
this entity surface form:
Minahasan subgroup
this entity surface form:
Minahasan language