Sulawesi linguistic area
E570184
The Sulawesi linguistic area is a region of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi characterized by intense contact among diverse Austronesian and Papuan languages, leading to shared structural features across otherwise unrelated language groups.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sulawesi linguistic area canonical | 4 |
| Central Flores languages area | 1 |
| Minahasan linguistic area | 1 |
| South Sulawesi linguistic area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6098856 — 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: Sulawesi linguistic area Context triple: [Wolio language, hasLinguisticArea, Sulawesi linguistic area]
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A.
Sulawesi languages
The Sulawesi languages are a diverse group of Austronesian languages spoken on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, known for their complex typological variation and significant internal linguistic diversity.
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B.
South Sulawesi languages
South Sulawesi languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, known for their significant internal diversity and historical importance in the region.
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C.
Sumatran languages
Sumatran languages are a diverse group of Austronesian languages spoken on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and its surrounding regions.
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D.
Sunda-Sulawesi languages
The Sunda-Sulawesi languages are a proposed group of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in western and central Indonesia, including parts of Java, Sulawesi, and nearby islands.
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E.
Tanimbar languages
The Tanimbar languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Tanimbar Islands of eastern Indonesia.
- 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: Sulawesi linguistic area Target entity description: The Sulawesi linguistic area is a region of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi characterized by intense contact among diverse Austronesian and Papuan languages, leading to shared structural features across otherwise unrelated language groups.
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A.
Sulawesi languages
The Sulawesi languages are a diverse group of Austronesian languages spoken on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, known for their complex typological variation and significant internal linguistic diversity.
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B.
South Sulawesi languages
South Sulawesi languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, known for their significant internal diversity and historical importance in the region.
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C.
Sumatran languages
Sumatran languages are a diverse group of Austronesian languages spoken on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and its surrounding regions.
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D.
Sunda-Sulawesi languages
The Sunda-Sulawesi languages are a proposed group of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in western and central Indonesia, including parts of Java, Sulawesi, and nearby islands.
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E.
Tanimbar languages
The Tanimbar languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Tanimbar Islands of eastern Indonesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sprachbund
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linguistic area ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
intense language contact
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shared structural features across different language families ⓘ |
| hasConsequence |
diffusion of lexical items
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shared grammatical patterns ⓘ shared phonological features ⓘ shared syntactic structures ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
areal diffusion of grammatical features
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complex language contact history ⓘ contact-induced change ⓘ high linguistic diversity ⓘ structural convergence among unrelated languages ⓘ |
| hasRelevanceFor |
reconstruction of prehistory in Sulawesi
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the study of language contact in Island Southeast Asia ⓘ the study of language convergence ⓘ |
| hasResearchTopic |
areal features shared by non-genealogically related languages
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contact-induced grammaticalization ⓘ diffusion of alignment and voice systems ⓘ diffusion of clause structure patterns ⓘ diffusion of pronominal systems ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfContact | Austronesian–Papuan contact NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesLanguageFamily |
Austronesian languages
NERFINISHED
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Papuan languages ⓘ |
| languageEcology |
long-term intergroup contact
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multilingualism ⓘ widespread bilingualism ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Indonesia
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Maritime Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Sulawesi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overlapsWith |
Central Sulawesi
NERFINISHED
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Northern Sulawesi NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Sulawesi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Eastern Indonesian linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studiedInField |
Austronesian linguistics
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Papuan linguistics ⓘ areal linguistics ⓘ contact linguistics ⓘ |
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: Sulawesi linguistic area Description of subject: The Sulawesi linguistic area is a region of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi characterized by intense contact among diverse Austronesian and Papuan languages, leading to shared structural features across otherwise unrelated language groups.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
South Sulawesi linguistic area
this entity surface form:
Minahasan linguistic area
this entity surface form:
Central Flores languages area