Bintauna language
E155816
The Bintauna language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bintauna people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bintauna language canonical | 4 |
| Bantik language | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1366740 — 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: Bintauna language Context triple: [Gorontalo–Mongondow languages, hasMember, Bintauna language]
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A.
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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B.
Banjar language
The Banjar language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Banjar people of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, and is considered a regional variety closely associated with the broader Malay linguistic family.
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C.
Bima language
Bima language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, known for its distinct grammar and vocabulary within the region.
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D.
Banggai language
The Banggai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Banggai people in the Banggai Islands and nearby coastal areas of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
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.
- 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: Bintauna language Target entity description: The Bintauna language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bintauna people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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A.
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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B.
Banjar language
The Banjar language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Banjar people of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, and is considered a regional variety closely associated with the broader Malay linguistic family.
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C.
Bima language
Bima language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, known for its distinct grammar and vocabulary within the region.
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D.
Banggai language
The Banggai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Banggai people in the Banggai Islands and nearby coastal areas of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Bintauna
ⓘ
Bintauna’ ⓘ
linked to:
Bintauna
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Bintauna people ⓘ |
| family | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Austronesian language
ⓘ
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasTypology | predominantly SVO word order ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | bne ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC+8 ⓘ |
| region | Bolaang Mongondow Regency ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Bintauna people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
North Sulawesi ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| subgroup |
Gorontalo–Mongondow languages
ⓘ
Philippine languages ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin 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: Bintauna language Description of subject: The Bintauna language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bintauna people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bintauna language
linked to: Bintauna language