Western Subanen
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Western Subanen is a major dialect of the Subanen language spoken by Subanen communities in the western regions of the Zamboanga Peninsula in the southern Philippines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Western Subanen canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5745273 — 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: Western Subanen Context triple: [Subanen, hasDialect, Western Subanen]
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A.
Western Mono
Western Mono is a dialect of the Mono language spoken by the Mono people of central California, distinguished by its own phonological and lexical features within the broader Mono linguistic continuum.
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B.
Southern Yana
Southern Yana is a now-extinct dialect of the Yana language once spoken by Indigenous people in northern California.
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C.
Northern Submeseta
Northern Submeseta is the northern portion of Spain’s central plateau, characterized by its high elevation plains and continental climate.
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D.
Southwestern Krai
Southwestern Krai was a historical administrative region of the Russian Empire in the western borderlands, encompassing much of present-day Ukraine and serving as a key area of imperial control over former Polish–Lithuanian territories.
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E.
Central Sama
Central Sama is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sama people of the southern Philippines and nearby regions, known for its role within the Sama–Bajaw language group.
- 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: Western Subanen Target entity description: Western Subanen is a major dialect of the Subanen language spoken by Subanen communities in the western regions of the Zamboanga Peninsula in the southern Philippines.
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A.
Western Mono
Western Mono is a dialect of the Mono language spoken by the Mono people of central California, distinguished by its own phonological and lexical features within the broader Mono linguistic continuum.
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B.
Southern Yana
Southern Yana is a now-extinct dialect of the Yana language once spoken by Indigenous people in northern California.
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C.
Northern Submeseta
Northern Submeseta is the northern portion of Spain’s central plateau, characterized by its high elevation plains and continental climate.
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D.
Southwestern Krai
Southwestern Krai was a historical administrative region of the Russian Empire in the western borderlands, encompassing much of present-day Ukraine and serving as a key area of imperial control over former Polish–Lithuanian territories.
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E.
Central Sama
Central Sama is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sama people of the southern Philippines and nearby regions, known for its role within the Sama–Bajaw language group.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Subanen language variety
ⓘ
dialect ⓘ |
| category |
Austronesian languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Languages of the Philippines ⓘ Mindanao languages ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Subanen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | western Mindanao ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Austronesian language
ⓘ
Proto-Greater Central Philippine language NERFINISHED ⓘ Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ |
| hasTypology |
Austronesian alignment
ⓘ
verb-initial word order ⓘ |
| isMajorDialectOf | Subanen language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Greater Central Philippine languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Subanen dialect continuum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | western Zamboanga Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Subanen people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Mindanao
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Philippines ⓘ Zamboanga Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ Zamboanga Sibugay NERFINISHED ⓘ Zamboanga del Norte NERFINISHED ⓘ Zamboanga del Sur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Subanen language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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: Western Subanen Description of subject: Western Subanen is a major dialect of the Subanen language spoken by Subanen communities in the western regions of the Zamboanga Peninsula in the southern Philippines.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.