Lamaholot language
E166137
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lamaholot language canonical | 5 |
| Nage language | 1 |
| Ngadha language | 1 |
| Paluweh language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1302655 — 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: Lamaholot language Context triple: [Central Malayo-Polynesian languages, hasMember, Lamaholot language]
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A.
Kapingamarangi language
The Kapingamarangi language is a Polynesian outlier language spoken primarily on Kapingamarangi Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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B.
Blablanga language
The Blablanga language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Northwest Solomonic subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
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C.
Hoanya language
The Hoanya language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Hoanya people of western Taiwan and classified among the indigenous Formosan languages.
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D.
Rarámuri language
The Rarámuri language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Tarahumara (Rarámuri) people of northern Mexico.
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E.
Bakumpai language
The Bakumpai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bakumpai people of central Kalimantan in Indonesia, closely related to other Dayak and Malayic languages of Borneo.
- 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: Lamaholot language Target entity description: The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
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A.
Kapingamarangi language
The Kapingamarangi language is a Polynesian outlier language spoken primarily on Kapingamarangi Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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B.
Blablanga language
The Blablanga language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Northwest Solomonic subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
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C.
Hoanya language
The Hoanya language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Hoanya people of western Taiwan and classified among the indigenous Formosan languages.
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D.
Rarámuri language
The Rarámuri language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Tarahumara (Rarámuri) people of northern Mexico.
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E.
Bakumpai language
The Bakumpai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bakumpai people of central Kalimantan in Indonesia, closely related to other Dayak and Malayic languages of Borneo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ |
| altName |
Eastern Flores Lamaholot
ⓘ
Lamaholo ⓘ Solor language ⓘ |
| contactLanguage | Indonesian language ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Lamaholot ⓘ |
| glottocode | lama1288 ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Adonara dialects
ⓘ
Ile Mandiri dialect ⓘ Lembata dialects ⓘ Lewotobi dialect ⓘ Solor dialects ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
complex verbal morphology
ⓘ
numerous dialects ⓘ pronominal clitics ⓘ verbal affixation ⓘ voice alternations ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
Indonesian language
ⓘ
Malay language ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNeighbouringLanguage |
Alorese language
ⓘ
Kedang language ⓘ Manggarai language ⓘ Sika language ⓘ |
| hasPhonology | five-vowel system (approximate) ⓘ |
| hasResearcher |
Klamer, Marian
ⓘ
Robert H. Barnes NERFINISHED ⓘ Uri Tadmor ⓘ |
| hasStatus | regional language in Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO-dominant ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | slp ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Flores–Lembata languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Flores–Lembata linguistic area
|
| isTaughtIn | local primary schools (limited) ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| region | Lesser Sunda Islands ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Adonara Island
ⓘ
East Nusa Tenggara ⓘ Flores ⓘ Indonesia ⓘ Lembata ⓘ
surface form:
Lembata Island
Adonara Island ⓘ
surface form:
Solor Island
eastern Flores ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Central Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| usedBy | Lamaholot people ⓘ |
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: Lamaholot language Description of subject: The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ngadha language
this entity surface form:
Nage language
this entity surface form:
Paluweh language
subject surface form:
Central Malayo-Polynesian languages