Sawila
E815003
Sawila is a Papuan language spoken on Alor Island in eastern Indonesia, known for its complex verb morphology and membership in the Alor–Pantar language family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sawila canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9698793 — 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: Sawila Context triple: [Alor–Pantar languages, includeLanguage, Sawila]
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A.
Sawalha
Sawalha is a family name most notably associated with British actresses Julia and Nadia Sawalha.
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B.
Shawiya
Shawiya refers to an Amazigh (Berber) ethnic group and their Zenati Berber language spoken primarily in the Aurès Mountains of northeastern Algeria.
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C.
Salwa
Salwa is a coastal residential district in Kuwait, located within the Hawalli Governorate and known for its mix of housing, schools, and local amenities.
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D.
Anila
Anila is a name and epithet of the Hindu wind god Vayu, representing the personification of air and life-breath.
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E.
Ruhaya
Ruhaya is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Haya people of northwestern Tanzania.
- 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: Sawila Target entity description: Sawila is a Papuan language spoken on Alor Island in eastern Indonesia, known for its complex verb morphology and membership in the Alor–Pantar language family.
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A.
Sawalha
Sawalha is a family name most notably associated with British actresses Julia and Nadia Sawalha.
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B.
Shawiya
Shawiya refers to an Amazigh (Berber) ethnic group and their Zenati Berber language spoken primarily in the Aurès Mountains of northeastern Algeria.
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C.
Salwa
Salwa is a coastal residential district in Kuwait, located within the Hawalli Governorate and known for its mix of housing, schools, and local amenities.
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D.
Anila
Anila is a name and epithet of the Hindu wind god Vayu, representing the personification of air and life-breath.
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E.
Ruhaya
Ruhaya is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Haya people of northwestern Tanzania.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Alor–Pantar language
ⓘ
Papuan language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| glottologCode | sawi1256 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Sawila NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName | Tanglapui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Sawila proper
ⓘ
Tanglapui dialects ⓘ |
| hasDocumentationType |
grammatical description
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lexicon ⓘ text collections ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
agreement marking on verbs
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clause chaining ⓘ complex TAM (tense–aspect–mood) system ⓘ complex verb morphology ⓘ prefixal morphology on verbs ⓘ pronominal indexing on verbs ⓘ rich verbal inflection ⓘ serial verb constructions ⓘ suffixal morphology on verbs ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Abui
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kamang NERFINISHED ⓘ Wersing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOrderTendencies | SOV ⓘ |
| hasResearchFocus |
TAM system
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alignment and argument structure ⓘ pronominal paradigms ⓘ verb morphology ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | swt ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Alor languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Papuan languages of the Lesser Sunda Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Alor–Pantar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languagePhylum | Trans–New Guinea hypothesis (disputed) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInLanguageArea | Alor–Pantar linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| macroArea | Papunesia ⓘ |
| region | eastern Alor Island ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Sawila ethnic group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Alor Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
East Nusa Tenggara NERFINISHED ⓘ Indonesia ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Alor–Pantar language family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Papuan languages of Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typologicalProfile |
predominantly head-marking
ⓘ
verb-final tendencies ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script (for linguistic description) ⓘ |
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: Sawila Description of subject: Sawila is a Papuan language spoken on Alor Island in eastern Indonesia, known for its complex verb morphology and membership in the Alor–Pantar language family.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.