Northern Subanen
E548953
Northern Subanen is a major dialect of the Subanen language spoken by Subanen communities in the northern regions of the Zamboanga Peninsula in the southern Philippines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Northern Subanen canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5745275 — 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: Northern Subanen Context triple: [Subanen, hasDialect, Northern Subanen]
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A.
Eastern Subanen
Eastern Subanen is a dialect of the Subanen language spoken by Subanen communities in the eastern regions of the Zamboanga Peninsula in the southern Philippines.
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B.
Western Subanen
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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C.
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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D.
Northern Yana
Northern Yana is a now-extinct dialect of the Yana language once spoken by Indigenous people in northern California.
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E.
Eastern Siberia
Eastern Siberia is the vast, sparsely populated eastern part of Siberia in Russia, known for its extreme climate, extensive taiga and tundra landscapes, and rich natural resources.
- 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: Northern Subanen Target entity description: Northern Subanen is a major dialect of the Subanen language spoken by Subanen communities in the northern regions of the Zamboanga Peninsula in the southern Philippines.
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A.
Eastern Subanen
Eastern Subanen is a dialect of the Subanen language spoken by Subanen communities in the eastern regions of the Zamboanga Peninsula in the southern Philippines.
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B.
Western Subanen
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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C.
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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D.
Northern Yana
Northern Yana is a now-extinct dialect of the Yana language once spoken by Indigenous people in northern California.
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E.
Eastern Siberia
Eastern Siberia is the vast, sparsely populated eastern part of Siberia in Russia, known for its extreme climate, extensive taiga and tundra landscapes, and rich natural resources.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language variety
ⓘ
dialect ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Subanen dialect continuum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation | Subanen traditional culture ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupUsers | Northern Subanen communities ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Northern Subanen dialect
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northern Subanon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialect | various local village varieties ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
folklore
ⓘ
oral history ⓘ |
| hasMorphosyntacticAlignment | Philippine-type voice system ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
Austronesian-type consonant inventory
ⓘ
contrastive stress ⓘ |
| isMajorDialectOf | Subanen language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSpokenInIsland | Mindanao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageStatus | minority language ⓘ |
| lexicalSimilarityWith | other Subanen dialects ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Southern Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Subanen language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryWordOrder | verb-initial ⓘ |
| region | northern Zamboanga Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Central Subanen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eastern Subanen NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Subanen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Subanen people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Mindanao
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Philippines ⓘ Zamboanga Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| subgroup | Greater Central Philippine languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
focus-based voice system
ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ verb-initial word order (often VSO or VOS) ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
Cebuano
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
English NERFINISHED ⓘ Filipino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication in Subanen communities ⓘ |
| usedInDomain |
oral tradition
ⓘ
rituals and ceremonies ⓘ traditional songs and chants ⓘ |
| 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: Northern Subanen Description of subject: Northern Subanen is a major dialect of the Subanen language spoken by Subanen communities in the northern regions of the Zamboanga Peninsula in the southern Philippines.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.