Boano (Sulawesi)
E661503
Boano (Sulawesi) is an Austronesian language spoken on Sulawesi in Indonesia, belonging to the Tomini–Tolitoli subgroup.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boano (Sulawesi) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7407981 — 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: Boano (Sulawesi) Context triple: [Tomini–Tolitoli languages, hasMemberLanguage, Boano (Sulawesi)]
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A.
Teluk Bone
Teluk Bone is a large gulf on the eastern side of Sulawesi Island in Indonesia, known for its rich marine biodiversity and important fishing grounds.
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B.
Southeast Sulawesi
Southeast Sulawesi is a province of Indonesia on the southeastern peninsula of Sulawesi Island, known for its diverse indigenous cultures, marine biodiversity, and largely rural, coastal landscapes.
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C.
Maiwa (Sulawesi)
Maiwa (Sulawesi) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maiwa people in the South Sulawesi region of Indonesia.
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D.
Kalao Island, South Sulawesi
Kalao Island, South Sulawesi is a small Indonesian island known as the primary home of the Kalao-speaking community.
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E.
North Sulawesi
North Sulawesi is a province in the northern part of Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island, known for its rich marine biodiversity, volcanic landscapes, and diverse cultures.
- 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: Boano (Sulawesi) Target entity description: Boano (Sulawesi) is an Austronesian language spoken on Sulawesi in Indonesia, belonging to the Tomini–Tolitoli subgroup.
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A.
Teluk Bone
Teluk Bone is a large gulf on the eastern side of Sulawesi Island in Indonesia, known for its rich marine biodiversity and important fishing grounds.
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B.
Southeast Sulawesi
Southeast Sulawesi is a province of Indonesia on the southeastern peninsula of Sulawesi Island, known for its diverse indigenous cultures, marine biodiversity, and largely rural, coastal landscapes.
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C.
Maiwa (Sulawesi)
Maiwa (Sulawesi) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maiwa people in the South Sulawesi region of Indonesia.
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D.
Kalao Island, South Sulawesi
Kalao Island, South Sulawesi is a small Indonesian island known as the primary home of the Kalao-speaking community.
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E.
North Sulawesi
North Sulawesi is a province in the northern part of Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island, known for its rich marine biodiversity, volcanic landscapes, and diverse cultures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Boano people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Boano
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Boano (Celebes) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
SVO word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Tolitoli
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tomini NERFINISHED ⓘ other Tomini–Tolitoli languages ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (uncertain)
ⓘ
typical Austronesian consonant inventory ⓘ |
| higherLevelFamily |
Austronesian languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | bzn ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian
|
| languageSubgroup | Tomini–Tolitoli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Sulawesi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfLanguageGroup |
Tomini languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tomini–Tolitoli languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Central Sulawesi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Boano Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
coastal areas of Sulawesi ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication within Boano communities ⓘ |
| 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: Boano (Sulawesi) Description of subject: Boano (Sulawesi) is an Austronesian language spoken on Sulawesi in Indonesia, belonging to the Tomini–Tolitoli subgroup.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.