Hewa language
E174817
The Hewa language is a lesser-known Austronesian language spoken on the Indonesian islands of Flores and/or Lembata, belonging to the Flores–Lembata subgroup.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hewa language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1532925 — 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: Hewa language Context triple: [Flores–Lembata languages, hasMember, Hewa language]
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A.
Wewewa language
The Wewewa language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Wewewa people on the western part of Sumba Island in eastern Indonesia.
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B.
Hoava language
The Hoava language is an Oceanic language spoken by communities in the western Solomon Islands, particularly on New Georgia Island.
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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.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
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E.
Kayeli language
The Kayeli language is an Austronesian language once spoken on Buru Island in Indonesia, now critically endangered or possibly extinct.
- 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: Hewa language Target entity description: The Hewa language is a lesser-known Austronesian language spoken on the Indonesian islands of Flores and/or Lembata, belonging to the Flores–Lembata subgroup.
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A.
Wewewa language
The Wewewa language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Wewewa people on the western part of Sumba Island in eastern Indonesia.
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B.
Hoava language
The Hoava language is an Oceanic language spoken by communities in the western Solomon Islands, particularly on New Georgia Island.
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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.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
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E.
Kayeli language
The Kayeli language is an Austronesian language once spoken on Buru Island in Indonesia, now critically endangered or possibly extinct.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus |
lesser-known
ⓘ
potentially endangered ⓘ |
| family |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Hewa (Flores–Lembata)
ⓘ
Héwa ⓘ |
| iso639Status | doesNotHaveIndividualISO639-3Code ⓘ |
| languageFamilyBranch |
Malayo-Polynesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Malayo-Polynesian
|
| macroArea | Papunesia ⓘ |
| region | East Nusa Tenggara ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Flores
ⓘ
Lembata ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Flores–Lembata languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Flores–Lembata language
|
| subfamily |
Lesser Sunda Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Flores–Lembata
|
| typologicalFeature | likely SVO word order ⓘ |
| usedBy | Hewa people ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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: Hewa language Description of subject: The Hewa language is a lesser-known Austronesian language spoken on the Indonesian islands of Flores and/or Lembata, belonging to the Flores–Lembata subgroup.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.