Buhid language
E153159
The Buhid language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Buhid Mangyan people of Mindoro in the Philippines, known for its indigenous Buhid script.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Buhid language canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1199566 — 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: Buhid language Context triple: [Philippine–Cordilleran languages, hasMember, Buhid language]
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A.
Balangao language
The Balangao language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Balangao people in the Mountain Province of the northern Philippines.
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B.
Ibaloy language
The Ibaloy language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Ibaloy people of Benguet in the northern Philippines, known for its rich oral traditions and distinct phonology within the Cordilleran highlands.
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C.
Baliwon language
The Baliwon language is a lesser-known Austronesian language spoken by an indigenous community in the northern Philippines, belonging to the Philippine–Cordilleran subgroup.
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D.
Kalanguya language
The Kalanguya language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalanguya people in the northern Luzon highlands of the Philippines.
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E.
Ibanag language
The Ibanag language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the Cagayan Valley region of northern Luzon in the Philippines.
- 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: Buhid language Target entity description: The Buhid language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Buhid Mangyan people of Mindoro in the Philippines, known for its indigenous Buhid script.
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A.
Balangao language
The Balangao language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Balangao people in the Mountain Province of the northern Philippines.
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B.
Ibaloy language
The Ibaloy language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Ibaloy people of Benguet in the northern Philippines, known for its rich oral traditions and distinct phonology within the Cordilleran highlands.
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C.
Baliwon language
The Baliwon language is a lesser-known Austronesian language spoken by an indigenous community in the northern Philippines, belonging to the Philippine–Cordilleran subgroup.
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D.
Kalanguya language
The Kalanguya language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalanguya people in the northern Luzon highlands of the Philippines.
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E.
Ibanag language
The Ibanag language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the Cagayan Valley region of northern Luzon in the Philippines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Philippine language ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Buhid people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Batangan language
ⓘ
Buid language ⓘ Mangyan peoples ⓘ
surface form:
Mangyan Buhid
|
| hasBasicWordOrder | verb–initial ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificanceFor |
Mangyan peoples
ⓘ
surface form:
Buhid Mangyan people
|
| hasDomain |
home and community use
ⓘ
storytelling ⓘ traditional songs and chants ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | buhi1242 ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNativeName |
Batangan
ⓘ
Buid ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
simple consonant inventory typical of Philippine languages
ⓘ
vowel system with five vowels ⓘ |
| hasScriptUnicodeBlock | Buhid (U+1740–U+175F) ⓘ |
| hasStatus | recognized indigenous language of the Philippines ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | Buhid script ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Philippines ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | bku ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Mangyan languages ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | some local community schools ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ Philippine languages ⓘ |
| preservationEfforts |
community-based literacy programs
ⓘ
documentation by linguists ⓘ |
| region | Mimaropa ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| scriptUnicodeStandardized | true ⓘ |
| scriptUsedHistoricallyFor | inscriptions on bamboo ⓘ |
| sharesFeaturesWith |
Tagalog
ⓘ
other Central Philippine languages ⓘ other Mangyan languages ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Mangyan peoples
ⓘ
surface form:
Buhid Mangyan people
Mangyan peoples ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Mindoro
ⓘ
Philippines ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday communication among Buhid people
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ ritual practices ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | Brahmic abugida ⓘ |
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: Buhid language Description of subject: The Buhid language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Buhid Mangyan people of Mindoro in the Philippines, known for its indigenous Buhid script.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.