Sursurunga language
E619309
The Sursurunga language is an Austronesian language spoken on New Ireland in Papua New Guinea, notable for its complex numeral system and membership in the Western Bismarck subgroup.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sursurunga language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6786562 — 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: Sursurunga language Context triple: [Western Bismarck languages, hasMember, Sursurunga language]
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A.
Kapingamarangi language
The Kapingamarangi language is a Polynesian outlier language spoken primarily on Kapingamarangi Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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B.
Ronga language
The Ronga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Mozambique, closely related to Tsonga and used by the Ronga people in the Maputo region.
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C.
Chumburung language
The Chumburung language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Chumburung people in Ghana.
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D.
Kumbewaha language
The Kumbewaha language is an Austronesian language spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia, belonging to the Wotu–Wolio subgroup.
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E.
Waigali language
The Waigali language is a Nuristani language spoken by the Waigal people in eastern Afghanistan.
- 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: Sursurunga language Target entity description: The Sursurunga language is an Austronesian language spoken on New Ireland in Papua New Guinea, notable for its complex numeral system and membership in the Western Bismarck subgroup.
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A.
Kapingamarangi language
The Kapingamarangi language is a Polynesian outlier language spoken primarily on Kapingamarangi Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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B.
Ronga language
The Ronga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Mozambique, closely related to Tsonga and used by the Ronga people in the Maputo region.
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C.
Chumburung language
The Chumburung language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Chumburung people in Ghana.
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D.
Kumbewaha language
The Kumbewaha language is an Austronesian language spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia, belonging to the Wotu–Wolio subgroup.
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E.
Waigali language
The Waigali language is a Nuristani language spoken by the Waigal people in eastern Afghanistan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| continent | Oceania ⓘ |
| country | Papua New Guinea ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| family | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| geneticClassification | Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Oceanic > Western Oceanic > Meso-Melanesian > Western Bismarck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Sursurunga
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sursurunga (New Ireland) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGlottologCode | surs1248 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Sursurunga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | sgz ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
base-2 numeral elements
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classifiers in numeral system ⓘ complex numeral system ⓘ multiple sets of numerals ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Oceanic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
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surface form:
Austronesian
|
| languageStatus | minority language ⓘ |
| locatedOn | New Ireland Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| macroArea | Papunesia ⓘ |
| region | New Ireland Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
New Ireland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Western Bismarck languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Meso-Melanesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
has complex counting system for different noun classes
ⓘ
uses numeral classifiers ⓘ |
| usedBy | Sursurunga people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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: Sursurunga language Description of subject: The Sursurunga language is an Austronesian language spoken on New Ireland in Papua New Guinea, notable for its complex numeral system and membership in the Western Bismarck subgroup.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.