Bimanese
E519503
Bimanese is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bima people on the eastern part of Sumbawa Island in Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bimanese canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5436513 — 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: Bimanese Context triple: [Pekat, hasLocalLanguages, Bimanese]
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A.
Bamar
The Bamar are the largest ethnic group in Myanmar, historically dominant in the country’s politics, culture, and language.
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B.
Andamanese
Andamanese refers to the indigenous peoples and their distinct language families native to the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
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C.
Odia
Odia is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Odisha, known for its rich literary tradition and classical language status.
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D.
Bahnaric
Bahnaric is a branch of the Austroasiatic language family spoken primarily in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia by various indigenous ethnic groups.
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E.
Nicobarese
Nicobarese is an Austroasiatic language (or group of related languages) traditionally spoken by the indigenous Nicobarese people of India’s Nicobar Islands.
- 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: Bimanese Target entity description: Bimanese is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bima people on the eastern part of Sumbawa Island in Indonesia.
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A.
Bamar
The Bamar are the largest ethnic group in Myanmar, historically dominant in the country’s politics, culture, and language.
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B.
Andamanese
Andamanese refers to the indigenous peoples and their distinct language families native to the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
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C.
Odia
Odia is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Odisha, known for its rich literary tradition and classical language status.
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D.
Bahnaric
Bahnaric is a branch of the Austroasiatic language family spoken primarily in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia by various indigenous ethnic groups.
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E.
Nicobarese
Nicobarese is an Austroasiatic language (or group of related languages) traditionally spoken by the indigenous Nicobarese people of India’s Nicobar Islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsToSubgroup | Central Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Bima people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Bima language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nggahi Mbojo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Bima city dialect
ⓘ
Donggo dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ Lambu dialect ⓘ Sape dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | bima1247 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Bima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | bhp ⓘ |
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom |
Arabic
ⓘ
Indonesian NERFINISHED ⓘ Malay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguasphereCode | 31-EEF-d ⓘ |
| hasNativeName | Nggahi Mbojo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNeighbouringLanguage |
Dompu language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Manggarai language NERFINISHED ⓘ Sasak language NERFINISHED ⓘ Sumbawa language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
prenasalized stops ⓘ |
| hasRegionCapital | Bima (city) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligionAssociated | Islam (via Bima people) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
| isEndangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| isPartOf | languages of Indonesia ⓘ |
| isSpokenNear |
Flores Sea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sape Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSpokenOn |
Sumbawa Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern Sumbawa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isTaughtInformallyIn | Bima households ⓘ |
| isUsedAlongside | Indonesian language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isUsedBy | Muslim communities in Bima region ⓘ |
| isUsedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | West Nusa Tenggara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Bima people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Sumbawa Island NERFINISHED ⓘ eastern part of Sumbawa Island ⓘ |
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: Bimanese Description of subject: Bimanese is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bima people on the eastern part of Sumbawa Island in Indonesia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.