Sika language
E174813
The Sika language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sika people on the island of Flores in eastern Indonesia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sika language canonical | 4 |
| Sikka language | 4 |
| Sika languages | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1532915 — 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: Sika language Context triple: [Flores–Lembata languages, hasMember, Sika language]
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A.
Tontemboan language
The Tontemboan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tontemboan people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is one of the traditional Minahasan languages of the region.
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B.
Simbo language
The Simbo language is an Oceanic language spoken on Simbo Island in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands.
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C.
Sakizaya language
The Sakizaya language is an indigenous Austronesian language spoken by the Sakizaya people of eastern Taiwan.
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D.
Tsonga language
The Tsonga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Africa, especially in Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe.
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E.
Lengo language
The Lengo language is an Oceanic language spoken on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, known for its place within the Southeast Solomonic subgroup.
- 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: Sika language Target entity description: The Sika language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sika people on the island of Flores in eastern Indonesia.
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A.
Tontemboan language
The Tontemboan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tontemboan people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is one of the traditional Minahasan languages of the region.
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B.
Simbo language
The Simbo language is an Oceanic language spoken on Simbo Island in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands.
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C.
Sakizaya language
The Sakizaya language is an indigenous Austronesian language spoken by the Sakizaya people of eastern Taiwan.
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D.
Tsonga language
The Tsonga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Africa, especially in Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe.
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E.
Lengo language
The Lengo language is an Oceanic language spoken on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, known for its place within the Southeast Solomonic subgroup.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Austronesian language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Sika people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Sara Sikka
ⓘ
Sikka ⓘ |
| hasDialects | multiple local varieties ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity | eastern Flores ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | ski ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC+8 ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguages |
Ende language
ⓘ
Kedang language ⓘ Lamaholot language ⓘ |
| primaryIsland | Flores ⓘ |
| region | East Nusa Tenggara ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Sika people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Flores
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| spokenOn | Lesser Sunda Islands ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Central Malayo-Polynesian languages
ⓘ
Flores–Lembata languages ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ traditional culture ⓘ |
| 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: Sika language Description of subject: The Sika language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sika people on the island of Flores in eastern Indonesia.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sika language
linked to: Sika language
linked to: Sika language
linked to: Sika language
linked to: Sika language