Weda
E661512
Weda is an alternative name for the Sawai language, an Austronesian language spoken in parts of eastern Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Weda canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7408135 — 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: Weda Context triple: [Sawai language, hasAlternativeName, Weda]
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A.
Wakema
Wakema is a town in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Region, known as the birthplace of former Burmese Prime Minister U Nu.
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B.
Teurnia
Teurnia was an important ancient Roman city that served as a major administrative and cultural center in the province of Noricum, located in what is now southern Austria.
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C.
Wihro
Wihro is the official mascot character created for the 2022 Mediterranean Games.
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D.
Shyriiwook
Shyriiwook is the guttural, roaring language spoken by the Wookiee species in the Star Wars universe.
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E.
Wotho
Wotho is a small inhabited island in the Marshall Islands that serves as the main settlement and administrative center of Wotho Atoll.
- 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: Weda Target entity description: Weda is an alternative name for the Sawai language, an Austronesian language spoken in parts of eastern Indonesia.
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A.
Wakema
Wakema is a town in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Region, known as the birthplace of former Burmese Prime Minister U Nu.
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B.
Teurnia
Teurnia was an important ancient Roman city that served as a major administrative and cultural center in the province of Noricum, located in what is now southern Austria.
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C.
Wihro
Wihro is the official mascot character created for the 2022 Mediterranean Games.
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D.
Shyriiwook
Shyriiwook is the guttural, roaring language spoken by the Wookiee species in the Star Wars universe.
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E.
Wotho
Wotho is a small inhabited island in the Marshall Islands that serves as the main settlement and administrative center of Wotho Atoll.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| alternativeNameOf | Sawai language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| geneticClassification | Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian > Central Maluku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Sawai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | sawa1247 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Sawai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | moderately agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | contrastive vowel length (reported for Sawai/Weda in some descriptions) ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | szw ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageStatus | minority language ⓘ |
| primaryDomainOfUse | home and community communication ⓘ |
| region | eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Halmahera
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ Maluku Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ North Maluku Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Weda Bay area NERFINISHED ⓘ eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| subfamily | Central Maluku languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature | verb–object word order (VO) ⓘ |
| usedBy | Sawai ethnic group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
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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: Weda Description of subject: Weda is an alternative name for the Sawai language, an Austronesian language spoken in parts of eastern Indonesia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.