Bontok language
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The Bontok language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bontok people of the Mountain Province in the northern Philippines, known for its rich oral traditions and distinct dialects.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bontok language canonical | 3 |
| Eastern Bontok | 1 |
| Southern Bontok | 1 |
| Southwestern Bontok | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5549735 — 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: Bontok language Context triple: [Kalinga language, closelyRelatedTo, Bontok language]
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A.
Butuanon language
The Butuanon language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in and around Butuan City in Mindanao, Philippines.
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B.
Balangao language
The Balangao language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Balangao people in the Mountain Province of the northern Philippines.
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C.
Tubatulabal language
The Tubatulabal language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Tubatulabal people of the southern Sierra Nevada region in California.
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D.
Bambam language
The Bambam language is an Austronesian language spoken in parts of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its place within the region’s diverse indigenous linguistic landscape.
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E.
Banda-Linda language
The Banda-Linda language is a Banda language spoken by the Banda-Linda people of the Central African Republic.
- 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: Bontok language Target entity description: The Bontok language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bontok people of the Mountain Province in the northern Philippines, known for its rich oral traditions and distinct dialects.
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A.
Butuanon language
The Butuanon language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in and around Butuan City in Mindanao, Philippines.
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B.
Balangao language
The Balangao language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Balangao people in the Mountain Province of the northern Philippines.
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C.
Tubatulabal language
The Tubatulabal language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Tubatulabal people of the southern Sierra Nevada region in California.
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D.
Bambam language
The Bambam language is an Austronesian language spoken in parts of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its place within the region’s diverse indigenous linguistic landscape.
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E.
Banda-Linda language
The Banda-Linda language is a Banda language spoken by the Banda-Linda people of the Central African Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Philippine language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Ifugao languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kalinga language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kankanaey language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Bontok people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlignmentType | Austronesian alignment ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Bontoc language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bontok Igorot language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Central Bontok
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eastern Bontok NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Bontok NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Bontok NERFINISHED ⓘ Southwestern Bontok NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | bont1248 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Central Bontok NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
focus-based voice system
ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ use of affixation for grammatical relations ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (in some dialects)
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasRichOralTradition | true ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder |
VOS
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VSO ⓘ verb–initial ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | bnc ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageGroup |
Bontok-Kankanay languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northern Luzon languages NERFINISHED ⓘ South-Central Cordilleran languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSubfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryArea | Mountain Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Cordillera Administrative Region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northern Luzon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Bontok people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Mountain Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Philippines ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
language shift to English
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language shift to Filipino ⓘ language shift to Ilocano ⓘ |
| usedIn |
folksongs
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rituals ⓘ storytelling ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
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: Bontok language Description of subject: The Bontok language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bontok people of the Mountain Province in the northern Philippines, known for its rich oral traditions and distinct dialects.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Eastern Bontok
this entity surface form:
Southern Bontok
this entity surface form:
Southwestern Bontok