Cebuano language
E7565
The Cebuano language is an Austronesian language widely spoken in the southern Philippines, particularly in the Visayas and parts of Mindanao.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cebuano | 198 |
| Cebuano language canonical | 36 |
| Boholano Cebuano | 6 |
| Standard Cebuano | 5 |
| Urban Cebuano | 3 |
| Davaoeño Cebuano | 2 |
| Bisaya (Cebuano) | 1 |
| Cebuano language group | 1 |
| Leyteño Cebuano | 1 |
| Northern Cebuano | 1 |
| Siquijodnon Cebuano | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T59618 — 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: Cebuano language Context triple: [Filipino, majorLanguage, Cebuano language]
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A.
Tagalog
Tagalog is an Austronesian language primarily spoken in the Philippines and serves as the basis for the country’s national language, Filipino.
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B.
Filipino
Filipinos are a Southeast Asian ethnolinguistic group native to the Philippines, known for their diverse Austronesian, Spanish, American, and Chinese cultural influences and a global diaspora.
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C.
Sranan Tongo
Sranan Tongo is an English- and Dutch-influenced creole language originating in Suriname, widely used as a lingua franca among its diverse ethnic communities.
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D.
Solomon Islands Pijin
Solomon Islands Pijin is an English-based creole language widely used as a lingua franca across the Solomon Islands.
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E.
Baybayin
Baybayin is an ancient pre-colonial Philippine script used to write several native languages before the widespread adoption of the Latin alphabet.
- 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: Cebuano language Target entity description: The Cebuano language is an Austronesian language widely spoken in the southern Philippines, particularly in the Visayas and parts of Mindanao.
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A.
Tagalog
Tagalog is an Austronesian language primarily spoken in the Philippines and serves as the basis for the country’s national language, Filipino.
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B.
Filipino
Filipinos are a Southeast Asian ethnolinguistic group native to the Philippines, known for their diverse Austronesian, Spanish, American, and Chinese cultural influences and a global diaspora.
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C.
Sranan Tongo
Sranan Tongo is an English- and Dutch-influenced creole language originating in Suriname, widely used as a lingua franca among its diverse ethnic communities.
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D.
Solomon Islands Pijin
Solomon Islands Pijin is an English-based creole language widely used as a lingua franca across the Solomon Islands.
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E.
Baybayin
Baybayin is an ancient pre-colonial Philippine script used to write several native languages before the widespread adoption of the Latin alphabet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Bisayan language ⓘ Philippine language ⓘ |
| alignmentType | Austronesian alignment ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Binisaya
ⓘ
Binisaya ⓘ
surface form:
Bisaya
Cebuano language ⓘ
surface form:
Cebuano
|
| basicWordOrder | verb–subject–object ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Hiligaynon language
ⓘ
Waray language ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| glottocode | cebu1242 ⓘ |
| hasCaseMarking | focus/voice system ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Cebuano language
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Boholano Cebuano
Binisaya ⓘ
surface form:
Davaoeño Cebuano
Leyte ⓘ
surface form:
Leyte Cebuano
Mindanao Cebuano ⓘ Cebuano language self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Cebuano
Cebuano language self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Cebuano
Cebuano language self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Urban Cebuano
Zamboangueño Cebuano ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
English language
ⓘ
Hokkien language ⓘ Spanish language ⓘ |
| hasPhonemicContrast |
stress
ⓘ
vowel length ⓘ |
| hasWritingStandard | Ortograpiyang Pambansa-based orthography ⓘ |
| historicalWritingSystem | Baybayin ⓘ |
| ISO639-1Code | none ⓘ |
| ISO639-2Code | ceb ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | ceb ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| region |
Visayas
ⓘ
surface form:
Bohol
Caraga ⓘ Cebu ⓘ Central Visayas ⓘ Davao Region ⓘ Eastern Visayas ⓘ Negros Oriental ⓘ Northern Mindanao ⓘ Soccsksargen ⓘ Western Visayas ⓘ Zamboanga Peninsula ⓘ parts of Leyte ⓘ parts of Mindanao ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Greater Central Philippine languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Philippine languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ Philippine languages ⓘ |
| subgroup | Bisayan languages ⓘ |
| usedIn |
education in some Philippine regions
ⓘ
local government in Visayas and Mindanao ⓘ mass media in the Philippines ⓘ |
| writingSystem | 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: Cebuano language Description of subject: The Cebuano language is an Austronesian language widely spoken in the southern Philippines, particularly in the Visayas and parts of Mindanao.
Referenced by (255)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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