Wolio
E569508
Wolio is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Wolio people on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wolio canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6098841 — 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: Wolio Context triple: [Wolio language, glottologName, Wolio]
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A.
Olite
Olite is a historic town in northern Spain renowned for its well-preserved medieval architecture and the royal palace of the kings of Navarre.
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B.
Woopi
Woopi is the colloquial nickname for Woolgoolga, a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia known for its beaches and large Sikh community.
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C.
Tuyo
"Tuyo" is a bolero-style song by Rodrigo Amarante, best known as the haunting opening theme of the television series *Narcos*.
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D.
Citura
Citura is the public transport operator responsible for managing Reims’ urban transit network, including its tramway system, in northeastern France.
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E.
Kandi
Kandi is an American singer, songwriter, television personality, and businesswoman best known as a member of the R&B group Xscape and a star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
- 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: Wolio Target entity description: Wolio is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Wolio people on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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A.
Olite
Olite is a historic town in northern Spain renowned for its well-preserved medieval architecture and the royal palace of the kings of Navarre.
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B.
Woopi
Woopi is the colloquial nickname for Woolgoolga, a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia known for its beaches and large Sikh community.
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C.
Tuyo
"Tuyo" is a bolero-style song by Rodrigo Amarante, best known as the haunting opening theme of the television series *Narcos*.
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D.
Citura
Citura is the public transport operator responsible for managing Reims’ urban transit network, including its tramway system, in northeastern France.
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E.
Kandi
Kandi is an American singer, songwriter, television personality, and businesswoman best known as a member of the R&B group Xscape and a star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Baubau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithFormerPolity | Buton Sultanate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Butonese languages
ⓘ
Cia-Cia language NERFINISHED ⓘ Muna language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Wolio people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Austronesian ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Bahasa Wolio
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Butonese Wolio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialect | rural Wolio varieties ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | woli1243 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Wolio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom |
Arabic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indonesian NERFINISHED ⓘ Malay ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticArea | Sulawesi linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorContactLanguage |
Bugis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indonesian NERFINISHED ⓘ Makassarese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNativeSpeakersRegion | Southeast Sulawesi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
prenasalized stops ⓘ |
| hasStandardVariety | urban Baubau Wolio ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | wlo ⓘ |
| languageFamilyBranch |
Celebic languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Muna–Buton languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLocation | Buton Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Southeast Sulawesi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scriptVariant | Lontara script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Baubau
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Buton Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAs | local lingua franca on Buton Island ⓘ |
| usedByReligion | Islam (local religious practices) ⓘ |
| usedInDomain |
local administration (historically)
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ traditional literature ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Arabic script
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
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: Wolio Description of subject: Wolio is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Wolio people on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.