Bolinao
E336296
Bolinao is a minority Austronesian language spoken primarily in the town of Bolinao and nearby areas in Pangasinan province, Philippines.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bolinao canonical | 6 |
| Bolinao, Pangasinan | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3199639 — 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: Bolinao Context triple: [Philippine languages, includesLanguage, Bolinao]
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A.
Lake Sebu
Lake Sebu is a scenic highland lake and cultural heartland of the T'boli people in South Cotabato, Mindanao, known for its waterfalls, traditional weaving, and eco-cultural tourism.
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B.
Laguna de Bay
Laguna de Bay is the largest freshwater lake in the Philippines, located southeast of Metro Manila on the island of Luzon and serving as a vital resource for fisheries, irrigation, and flood control.
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C.
Panay Gulf
Panay Gulf is a body of water in the central Philippines that separates Panay Island from Negros Island and connects to the Sulu Sea.
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D.
Davao Gulf
Davao Gulf is a large inlet of the Philippine Sea in southeastern Mindanao, known for its rich marine biodiversity and as a key fishing and shipping area for the surrounding provinces and Davao City.
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E.
Manila Bay
Manila Bay is a natural harbor on the western coast of Luzon in the Philippines, historically significant as a strategic maritime gateway and site of major naval battles.
- 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: Bolinao Target entity description: Bolinao is a minority Austronesian language spoken primarily in the town of Bolinao and nearby areas in Pangasinan province, Philippines.
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A.
Lake Sebu
Lake Sebu is a scenic highland lake and cultural heartland of the T'boli people in South Cotabato, Mindanao, known for its waterfalls, traditional weaving, and eco-cultural tourism.
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B.
Laguna de Bay
Laguna de Bay is the largest freshwater lake in the Philippines, located southeast of Metro Manila on the island of Luzon and serving as a vital resource for fisheries, irrigation, and flood control.
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C.
Panay Gulf
Panay Gulf is a body of water in the central Philippines that separates Panay Island from Negros Island and connects to the Sulu Sea.
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D.
Davao Gulf
Davao Gulf is a large inlet of the Philippine Sea in southeastern Mindanao, known for its rich marine biodiversity and as a key fishing and shipping area for the surrounding provinces and Davao City.
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E.
Manila Bay
Manila Bay is a natural harbor on the western coast of Luzon in the Philippines, historically significant as a strategic maritime gateway and site of major naval battles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Philippine language ⓘ |
| alsoSpokenIn | Anda, Pangasinan ⓘ |
| belongsToSubgroup | Sambalic languages ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Pangasinan language
ⓘ
Sambal language ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | coastalAreasOfWesternPangasinan ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Binubolinao
ⓘ
Bolinao Sambal ⓘ |
| hasDocumentation |
academicArticles
ⓘ
descriptiveGrammars ⓘ wordlists ⓘ |
| hasDomainRestriction | mostlyInformalContexts ⓘ |
| hasEthnolinguisticIdentity | Bolinao ethnolinguistic group ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | boli1260 ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | smk ⓘ |
| hasLanguagePolicyContext |
coexistsWithEnglishAsOfficialLanguage
ⓘ
coexistsWithNationalLanguageFilipino ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
simpleVowelSystem
ⓘ
typicalPhilippineConsonantInventory ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEfforts |
communityBasedLanguagePrograms
ⓘ
localCulturalInitiatives ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity | Bolinao people ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ Philippine languages ⓘ |
| minorityLanguageIn | Philippines ⓘ |
| primaryTown | Bolinao self-link ⓘ |
| region | Western Pangasinan ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Bolinao
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Bolinao, Pangasinan
Luzon ⓘ Pangasinan province NERFINISHED ⓘ Philippines ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
languageShiftToEnglish
ⓘ
languageShiftToFilipino ⓘ languageShiftToIlocano ⓘ |
| typologicallySimilarTo | otherCentralLuzonlanguages ⓘ |
| usedAs |
communityLanguage
ⓘ
homeLanguage ⓘ |
| usedIn |
communityMedia
ⓘ
localOralTraditions ⓘ localReligiousPractices ⓘ |
| 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: Bolinao Description of subject: Bolinao is a minority Austronesian language spoken primarily in the town of Bolinao and nearby areas in Pangasinan province, Philippines.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bolinao, Pangasinan
this entity surface form:
Bolinao, Pangasinan