Samawa language
E508403
The Samawa language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Samawa (Sumbawa) people of Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, closely related to the Sasak language of neighboring Lombok.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samawa language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5283502 — 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: Samawa language Context triple: [Sasak, closelyRelatedTo, Samawa 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.
Murle language
The Murle language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Murle people of South Sudan.
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C.
Kuanyama language
The Kuanyama language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in northern Namibia and southern Angola, recognized as a standardized variety of Ovambo and used in education, media, and religious contexts.
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D.
Mari language
The Mari language is a Uralic language spoken primarily by the Mari people in the Mari El Republic and surrounding regions of Russia, known for its distinct dialects and rich oral tradition.
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E.
Sama language
The Sama language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Sama-Bajau maritime communities of the southern Philippines and nearby regions of Southeast Asia.
- 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: Samawa language Target entity description: The Samawa language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Samawa (Sumbawa) people of Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, closely related to the Sasak language of neighboring Lombok.
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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.
Murle language
The Murle language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Murle people of South Sudan.
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C.
Kuanyama language
The Kuanyama language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in northern Namibia and southern Angola, recognized as a standardized variety of Ovambo and used in education, media, and religious contexts.
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D.
Mari language
The Mari language is a Uralic language spoken primarily by the Mari people in the Mari El Republic and surrounding regions of Russia, known for its distinct dialects and rich oral tradition.
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E.
Sama language
The Sama language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Sama-Bajau maritime communities of the southern Philippines and nearby regions of Southeast Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Bahasa Samawa
ⓘ
Bahasa Sumbawa ⓘ
linked to:
Sumbawa language
Sumbawa language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Sasak language
ⓘ
linked to:
Basa Sasak
|
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Samawa people
ⓘ
Sumbawa people ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
central Sumbawa Island
ⓘ
western Sumbawa Island ⓘ
linked to:
Sumbawa
|
| hasDialects |
Jereweh dialect
ⓘ
Sumbawa Besar dialect ⓘ Taliwang dialect ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
SVO word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions) ⓘ |
| hasResource | descriptive grammars and wordlists in Indonesian and English ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | smw ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguageOf |
Sasak language
ⓘ
linked to:
Basa Sasak
|
| partOf | Central Malayo-Polynesian languages (often classified) ⓘ |
| region | Lesser Sunda Islands ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Sumbawa Island ⓘ
linked to:
Sumbawa
West Nusa Tenggara ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| usedBy | local communities on Sumbawa Island ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication ⓘ |
| 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: Samawa language Description of subject: The Samawa language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Samawa (Sumbawa) people of Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, closely related to the Sasak language of neighboring Lombok.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.