Tolai language
E155830
The Tolai language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Tolai people of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tolai language canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1366806 — 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: Tolai language Context triple: [Western Oceanic languages, includesLanguage, Tolai language]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Tolaki language
The Tolaki language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tolaki people of southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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D.
Bungku–Tolaki languages
The Bungku–Tolaki languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for their shared phonological and grammatical features within the Celebic branch.
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E.
Fala language
Fala is a small Ibero-Romance language spoken in a few villages in Spain’s Extremadura region, notable for its close relation to Galician-Portuguese and its strong local identity.
- 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: Tolai language Target entity description: The Tolai language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Tolai people of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Tolaki language
The Tolaki language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tolaki people of southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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D.
Bungku–Tolaki languages
The Bungku–Tolaki languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for their shared phonological and grammatical features within the Celebic branch.
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E.
Fala language
Fala is a small Ibero-Romance language spoken in a few villages in Spain’s Extremadura region, notable for its close relation to Galician-Portuguese and its strong local identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Oceanic language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Gunantuna
ⓘ
Kuanua ⓘ |
| continent | Oceania ⓘ |
| country | Papua New Guinea ⓘ |
| glottocode | tola1241 ⓘ |
| hasApproximateSpeakers | tens of thousands of speakers ⓘ |
| hasEthnicPopulation | Tolai people of East New Britain ⓘ |
| hasNeighbouringLanguage |
English (Papua New Guinea)
ⓘ
Tok Pisin ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
| ISO639-3Code | ksd ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Oceanic languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology | SVO word order ⓘ |
| region |
East New Britain
ⓘ
linked to:
East New Britain Province
Gazelle Peninsula ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Tolai people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
East New Britain Province
ⓘ
Papua New Guinea ⓘ |
| subfamily | Meso-Melanesian languages ⓘ |
| subgroup | Papua New Guinea Oceanic languages ⓘ |
| usedAs | lingua franca in East New Britain ⓘ |
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: Tolai language Description of subject: The Tolai language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Tolai people of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Duke of York language (historically classified variably)
subject linked to:
Tolai people of East New Britain