Kedang
E682540
Kedang is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Lembata Island in eastern Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kedang canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7713255 — 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: Kedang Context triple: [Kedang language, glottologName, Kedang]
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A.
Kedayan
The Kedayan are an indigenous Malay ethnic group primarily found in Brunei, Sabah (Malaysia), and parts of Kalimantan (Indonesia), traditionally known for agriculture and a distinct cultural identity closely linked to Bruneian Malay culture.
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B.
Ranggawuni
Ranggawuni was a 13th-century Javanese king of the Singhasari Kingdom, known for consolidating royal power and laying groundwork for the rise of later Javanese empires.
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C.
Tumpang
Tumpang is a subdistrict in Malang Regency, East Java, Indonesia, known for its proximity to historical temples and as a gateway to the Bromo-Tengger-Semeru area.
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D.
Kusno
Kusno was the birth name of Sukarno, the first President of Indonesia and a leading figure in the country’s independence movement.
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E.
Gadjang
Gadjang is an Aboriginal Australian language variety associated with the Worimi people of New South Wales.
- 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: Kedang Target entity description: Kedang is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Lembata Island in eastern Indonesia.
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A.
Kedayan
The Kedayan are an indigenous Malay ethnic group primarily found in Brunei, Sabah (Malaysia), and parts of Kalimantan (Indonesia), traditionally known for agriculture and a distinct cultural identity closely linked to Bruneian Malay culture.
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B.
Ranggawuni
Ranggawuni was a 13th-century Javanese king of the Singhasari Kingdom, known for consolidating royal power and laying groundwork for the rise of later Javanese empires.
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C.
Tumpang
Tumpang is a subdistrict in Malang Regency, East Java, Indonesia, known for its proximity to historical temples and as a gateway to the Bromo-Tengger-Semeru area.
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D.
Kusno
Kusno was the birth name of Sukarno, the first President of Indonesia and a leading figure in the country’s independence movement.
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E.
Gadjang
Gadjang is an Aboriginal Australian language variety associated with the Worimi people of New South Wales.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| belongsToEthnicGroup | Kedang people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Kedang language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kedangese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClauseType | verb-initial in some constructions ⓘ |
| hasContactWith |
Indonesian
ⓘ
Lamohang NERFINISHED ⓘ other Flores–Lembata languages ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | ksx ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticArea | Flores–Lembata area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorDescription | Kedang: A Study of the Collective Thought of an Eastern Indonesian People NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphosyntacticAlignment | nominative–accusative ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakers | several thousand ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
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five-vowel system ⓘ prenasalized stops ⓘ |
| hasResearcher | Robert Barnes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTypology | analytic language ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| islandGroup | Lesser Sunda Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| primaryLocation | Lembata Regency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Nusa Tenggara Timur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Indonesia ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion | eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| spokenOn | Lembata Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| 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: Kedang Description of subject: Kedang is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Lembata Island in eastern Indonesia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.