Angkola language
E119354
Angkola language is an Austronesian language of the Batak group spoken primarily by the Angkola people in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Angkola language canonical | 3 |
| Angkola Batak language | 2 |
| Bahasa Angkola | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1019150 — 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: Angkola language Context triple: [Batak, hasLanguage, Angkola language]
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A.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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B.
Ongan languages
The Ongan languages are a small family of indigenous languages spoken by the Ongan peoples of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.
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C.
Berom language
The Berom language is a Plateau language spoken primarily by the Berom people in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, especially around Jos in Plateau State.
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D.
Yana language
The Yana language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northern California, notable for its complex verb morphology and documentation by linguist Edward Sapir.
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E.
Guna language
Guna language is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken by the Guna people of Panama and Colombia.
- 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: Angkola language Target entity description: Angkola language is an Austronesian language of the Batak group spoken primarily by the Angkola people in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
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A.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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B.
Ongan languages
The Ongan languages are a small family of indigenous languages spoken by the Ongan peoples of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.
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C.
Berom language
The Berom language is a Plateau language spoken primarily by the Berom people in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, especially around Jos in Plateau State.
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D.
Yana language
The Yana language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northern California, notable for its complex verb morphology and documentation by linguist Edward Sapir.
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E.
Guna language
Guna language is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken by the Guna people of Panama and Colombia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Batak language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | culture of Angkola people ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Karo Batak language
ⓘ
Mandailing language ⓘ Pakpak Dairi language ⓘ Simalungun language ⓘ Toba Batak language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Angkola people ⓘ |
| glottocode | angk1239 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Batak
ⓘ
surface form:
Angkola Batak
Angkola language ⓘ
surface form:
Bahasa Angkola
|
| hasConsonantInventory | typical of Batak languages ⓘ |
| hasDialects | varieties associated with different Angkola subregions ⓘ |
| hasDomain | home and community use ⓘ |
| hasMorphology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasPhonology | contrastive vowel length not prominent ⓘ |
| hasReligionAssociated | predominantly Muslim Angkola speakers ⓘ |
| hasStandardForm | not strongly standardized ⓘ |
| hasTypology | SVO word order ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Batak script
ⓘ
Latin script ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Indonesian language
ⓘ
Malay ⓘ
surface form:
Malay language
|
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | akb ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Mandailing language
ⓘ
surface form:
Batak Angkola–Mandailing macrolanguage
|
| languageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
Batak ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ
surface form:
Malayo-Polynesian
|
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC+7 ⓘ |
| region | Sumatra ⓘ |
| sharesLexiconWith |
Indonesian
ⓘ
surface form:
Indonesian language
Malay ⓘ
surface form:
Malay language
|
| spokenBy | Angkola people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
North Sumatra ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Batak languages ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ Batak languages ⓘ
surface form:
North Sumatra languages
|
| usedFor | daily communication among Angkola people ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Angkola cultural ceremonies
ⓘ
traditional Angkola oral literature ⓘ |
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: Angkola language Description of subject: Angkola language is an Austronesian language of the Batak group spoken primarily by the Angkola people in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Angkola Batak language
this entity surface form:
Bahasa Angkola
this entity surface form:
Angkola Batak language