Hiligaynon language
E9774
Hiligaynon is a major Austronesian language of the Philippines, widely spoken in Western Visayas and parts of Mindanao, particularly in and around Iloilo and Negros Occidental.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hiligaynon | 151 |
| Hiligaynon language canonical | 33 |
| Capiznon Hiligaynon | 1 |
| Guimaras dialect | 1 |
| Iloilo Hiligaynon | 1 |
| Rural Hiligaynon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T59620 — 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: Hiligaynon language Context triple: [Filipino, majorLanguage, Hiligaynon language]
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A.
Ilocano language
The Ilocano language is an Austronesian language widely spoken in northern Luzon and by migrant communities across the Philippines and abroad.
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B.
Cebuano language
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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C.
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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D.
Chamorro
Chamorro is an Austronesian language spoken by the indigenous Chamorro people of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.
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E.
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.
- 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: Hiligaynon language Target entity description: Hiligaynon is a major Austronesian language of the Philippines, widely spoken in Western Visayas and parts of Mindanao, particularly in and around Iloilo and Negros Occidental.
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A.
Ilocano language
The Ilocano language is an Austronesian language widely spoken in northern Luzon and by migrant communities across the Philippines and abroad.
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B.
Cebuano language
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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C.
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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D.
Chamorro
Chamorro is an Austronesian language spoken by the indigenous Chamorro people of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Central Philippine language ⓘ Philippine language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Hiligaynon language
ⓘ
surface form:
Hiligaynon
Ilonggo ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Danao languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Capiznon language
Cebuano language ⓘ Kinaray-a language ⓘ |
| hasEthnologueCode | hil ⓘ |
| hasISO639-1Code | hil ⓘ |
| hasISO639-2Code | hil ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | hil ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticCode | Glottolog: hili1240 ⓘ |
| hasMajorDialect |
Hiligaynon language
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Guimaras dialect
Iloilo dialect ⓘ Negros dialect ⓘ |
| hasNativeName |
Hiligaynon language
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Hiligaynon
Ilonggo ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive stress
ⓘ
rich vowel system ⓘ |
| hasStandardVariety |
Hiligaynon language
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Iloilo Hiligaynon
|
| hasTypology | Austronesian alignment ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | verb–subject–object ⓘ |
| hasWritingTraditionSince | Spanish colonial period ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageGroup |
Greater Central Philippine languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Philippine languages
|
| languageSubfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| primaryCountry | Philippines ⓘ |
| region |
Western Visayas
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Philippines
Western Visayas ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Capiz
ⓘ
Guimaras ⓘ Iloilo province ⓘ
surface form:
Iloilo City
Iloilo province ⓘ Mindanao ⓘ Negros Occidental ⓘ North Cotabato ⓘ Philippines ⓘ Soccsksargen ⓘ
surface form:
Soccsksargen region
South Cotabato ⓘ Sultan Kudarat ⓘ Western Visayas ⓘ |
| usedAs |
regional lingua franca in Western Visayas
ⓘ
regional lingua franca in parts of Mindanao ⓘ |
| usedInMedia |
local newspapers in Iloilo
ⓘ
radio broadcasting in Western Visayas ⓘ |
| usedInReligion | Catholic liturgy in Western Visayas ⓘ |
| 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: Hiligaynon language Description of subject: Hiligaynon is a major Austronesian language of the Philippines, widely spoken in Western Visayas and parts of Mindanao, particularly in and around Iloilo and Negros Occidental.
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