Sardinian language
E87997
The Sardinian language is a Romance language spoken on the island of Sardinia, noted for preserving many archaic features of Latin more than any other modern Romance tongue.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sardinian | 23 |
| Sardinian language canonical | 18 |
| Campidanese Sardinian | 2 |
| Limba Sarda Comuna | 1 |
| Logudorese Sardinian | 1 |
| Nuorese Sardinian | 1 |
| Sardinian Gallurese dialect | 1 |
| Sardinian dialect continuum | 1 |
| Sardinian language group | 1 |
| Sardu | 1 |
| limba sarda | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T700331 — 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: Sardinian language Context triple: [Popular Latin, ancestorOf, Sardinian language]
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A.
Ligurian language
Ligurian language is a Romance language of northwestern Italy, particularly associated with the city of Genoa and the Liguria region.
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B.
Aragonese language
The Aragonese language is a minority Romance language spoken primarily in the Aragon region of northeastern Spain, closely related to Spanish and Catalan.
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C.
Corsican language
Corsican language is a Romance language closely related to Italian, traditionally spoken on the island of Corsica and parts of northern Sardinia.
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D.
Gela language
The Gela language is an Oceanic language spoken by the Nggela (Florida) Island communities in the Central Province of the Solomon Islands.
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E.
Llanito
Llanito is a unique vernacular spoken in Gibraltar that blends Andalusian Spanish, British English, and elements from other Mediterranean languages.
- 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: Sardinian language Target entity description: The Sardinian language is a Romance language spoken on the island of Sardinia, noted for preserving many archaic features of Latin more than any other modern Romance tongue.
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A.
Ligurian language
Ligurian language is a Romance language of northwestern Italy, particularly associated with the city of Genoa and the Liguria region.
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B.
Aragonese language
The Aragonese language is a minority Romance language spoken primarily in the Aragon region of northeastern Spain, closely related to Spanish and Catalan.
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C.
Corsican language
Corsican language is a Romance language closely related to Italian, traditionally spoken on the island of Corsica and parts of northern Sardinia.
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D.
Gela language
The Gela language is an Oceanic language spoken by the Nggela (Florida) Island communities in the Central Province of the Solomon Islands.
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E.
Llanito
Llanito is a unique vernacular spoken in Gibraltar that blends Andalusian Spanish, British English, and elements from other Mediterranean languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Romance language
ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ language ⓘ minority language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Corsican language ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Campidanese Sardinian
ⓘ
Gallura ⓘ
surface form:
Gallurese
Logudorese Sardinian ⓘ Nuorese Sardinian ⓘ Sassarese ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | sard1257 ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
analytic verb forms
ⓘ
definite articles derived from Latin IPSE ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
five-vowel system
ⓘ
lenition of intervocalic stops ⓘ |
| hasRegulator |
Regional Council of Sardinia
ⓘ
surface form:
Regione Autonoma della Sardegna
Sportellu Linguìsticu Regionale ⓘ |
| hasStandardForm |
Sardinian language
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Limba Sarda Comuna
Limba Sarda Unificada ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature |
SVO basic word order
ⓘ
clitic pronouns ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Catalan
ⓘ
surface form:
Catalan language
Italian language ⓘ Pre-Latin Sardinian substratum ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
surface form:
Spanish language
|
| ISO639-1Code | sc ⓘ |
| ISO639-2Code | srd ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | srd ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European
ⓘ
Italic ⓘ Romance ⓘ |
| legalStatus | recognized minority language in Italy ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Sardinian language
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
limba sarda
sardu ⓘ |
| officialStatus | co-official language in Sardinia ⓘ |
| preservesFeature |
Latin case remnants in pronouns
ⓘ
archaic Latin phonology ⓘ conservative Latin vocabulary ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages ⓘ |
| region | Sardinia ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Italy
ⓘ
Sardinia ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Italo-Dalmatian languages ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local media
ⓘ
oral poetry ⓘ traditional music ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | alphabet ⓘ |
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: Sardinian language Description of subject: The Sardinian language is a Romance language spoken on the island of Sardinia, noted for preserving many archaic features of Latin more than any other modern Romance tongue.
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sardinian