Bontoc
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Bontoc is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bontoc people in the Mountain Province of the northern Philippines.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bontoc canonical | 11 |
| Central Bontoc | 2 |
| Northern Bontoc | 1 |
| Northern Bontok | 1 |
| Southwestern Bontoc | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3199632 — 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: Bontoc Context triple: [Philippine languages, includesLanguage, Bontoc]
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A.
Bukidnon
Bukidnon is a landlocked, mountainous province in the Philippines known for its vast agricultural plantations, cool climate, and scenic highland landscapes.
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B.
Tboli
The Tboli are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group of Mindanao in the southern Philippines, known for their rich oral traditions, intricate T’nalak weaving, and distinct cultural practices.
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C.
Tboli
Tboli is a landlocked municipality in the province of South Cotabato in the Philippines, known for its indigenous Tboli culture and scenic Lake Holon.
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D.
Butuanon
Butuanon is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the city of Butuan and surrounding areas in northeastern Mindanao in the southern Philippines.
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E.
Benguet
Benguet is a landlocked province in the northern Philippines known for its cool climate, mountainous terrain, and vegetable and strawberry farms centered around the city of Baguio.
- 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: Bontoc Target entity description: Bontoc is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bontoc people in the Mountain Province of the northern Philippines.
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A.
Bukidnon
Bukidnon is a landlocked, mountainous province in the Philippines known for its vast agricultural plantations, cool climate, and scenic highland landscapes.
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B.
Tboli
The Tboli are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group of Mindanao in the southern Philippines, known for their rich oral traditions, intricate T’nalak weaving, and distinct cultural practices.
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C.
Tboli
Tboli is a landlocked municipality in the province of South Cotabato in the Philippines, known for its indigenous Tboli culture and scenic Lake Holon.
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D.
Butuanon
Butuanon is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the city of Butuan and surrounding areas in northeastern Mindanao in the southern Philippines.
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E.
Benguet
Benguet is a landlocked province in the northern Philippines known for its cool climate, mountainous terrain, and vegetable and strawberry farms centered around the city of Baguio.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Philippine language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Ifugao languages
ⓘ
Kalinga language ⓘ Kankanaey language ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupAssociated | Bontoc people ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Bontok
ⓘ
linked to:
Balangao Bontok
Finallig (for some dialects) ⓘ |
| hasBasicWordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ verb–initial ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Bayyo Bontok
ⓘ
Central Bontok ⓘ
linked to:
Balangao Bontok
Eastern Bontok ⓘ
linked to:
Bontok language
Northern Bontok ⓘ
linked to:
Bontoc
Southern Bontok ⓘ
linked to:
Bontok language
Southwestern Bontok ⓘ
linked to:
Bontok language
Talubin Bontok ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResearch |
described in works by Howard McKaughan
ⓘ
documented in Philippine language surveys ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | voice-marking verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (in some dialects)
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory typical of Cordilleran languages ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation | younger speakers increasingly bilingual in Ilocano and Filipino ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
| ISO639-3Code | bnc ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Cordilleran language area
ⓘ
linked to:
Cordilleran languages
|
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageGroup |
Bontok-Kankanay languages
ⓘ
Northern Luzon languages ⓘ South-Central Cordilleran languages ⓘ
linked to:
Cordilleran languages
|
| languageStatus | minority language in the Philippines ⓘ |
| languageSubfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| primaryLocation |
Bauko, Mountain Province
ⓘ
Bontoc municipality, Mountain Province ⓘ
linked to:
Bontoc town
Sabangan, Mountain Province ⓘ Sadanga, Mountain Province ⓘ |
| region |
Cordillera Administrative Region
ⓘ
Northern Luzon ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Bontoc people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Mountain Province
ⓘ
Philippines ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
English language
ⓘ
linked to:
English
Filipino language ⓘ Ilocano language ⓘ |
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: Bontoc Description of subject: Bontoc is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bontoc people in the Mountain Province of the northern Philippines.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bontoc
linked to: Bontoc
linked to: Bontoc
linked to: Bontoc
linked to: Bontoc