Mandailing language
E129721
The Mandailing language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Mandailing people of northern Sumatra, Indonesia, and is one of the Batak languages.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mandailing language canonical | 6 |
| Mandailing Batak language | 2 |
| Batak Angkola–Mandailing macrolanguage | 1 |
| Mandailing | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1019151 — 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: Mandailing language Context triple: [Batak, hasLanguage, Mandailing language]
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A.
Pakpak Dairi language
The Pakpak Dairi language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Pakpak (a subgroup of the Batak peoples) in northern Sumatra, Indonesia.
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B.
Minahasan languages
Minahasan languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken by the Minahasan people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Simalungun language
The Simalungun language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Simalungun subgroup of the Batak people in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
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D.
Toba Batak language
Toba Batak language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Toba Batak people of North Sumatra, Indonesia, known for its rich oral tradition and distinctive Batak script.
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E.
Karo Batak language
The Karo Batak language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Karo people of North Sumatra, Indonesia.
- 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: Mandailing language Target entity description: The Mandailing language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Mandailing people of northern Sumatra, Indonesia, and is one of the Batak languages.
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A.
Pakpak Dairi language
The Pakpak Dairi language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Pakpak (a subgroup of the Batak peoples) in northern Sumatra, Indonesia.
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B.
Minahasan languages
Minahasan languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken by the Minahasan people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Simalungun language
The Simalungun language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Simalungun subgroup of the Batak people in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
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D.
Toba Batak language
Toba Batak language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Toba Batak people of North Sumatra, Indonesia, known for its rich oral tradition and distinctive Batak script.
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E.
Karo Batak language
The Karo Batak language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Karo people of North Sumatra, Indonesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Batak language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Angkola language
ⓘ
Toba Batak language ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mandailing people ⓘ |
| glottologCode | mand1415 ⓘ |
| glottologName |
Mandailing language
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Mandailing
|
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Austronesian language
ⓘ
Batak languages ⓘ
surface form:
Proto-Batak language
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | btm ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Batak languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Batak languages continuum
|
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| primaryLocation |
Mandailing Natal Regency
ⓘ
South Tapanuli Regency ⓘ |
| region | northern Sumatra ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Mandailing people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
North Sumatra ⓘ Sumatra ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| subgroup |
Batak languages
ⓘ
Sumatran languages ⓘ
surface form:
Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands languages
|
| usedFor |
everyday communication in Mandailing communities
ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ |
| usedIn | traditional Mandailing ceremonies ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Batak script
ⓘ
Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form:
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: Mandailing language Description of subject: The Mandailing language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Mandailing people of northern Sumatra, Indonesia, and is one of the Batak languages.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Batak Angkola–Mandailing macrolanguage
this entity surface form:
Mandailing Batak language
this entity surface form:
Mandailing
this entity surface form:
Mandailing Batak language