Western Bukidnon Manobo
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Western Bukidnon Manobo is an Austronesian language spoken by the Manobo people in the western part of Bukidnon province on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Western Bukidnon Manobo canonical | 3 |
| Bukidnon Manobo | 2 |
| Western Bukidnon Manobo language | 1 |
| Western Bukidnon Manobo people | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5615590 — 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: Western Bukidnon Manobo Context triple: [Manobo languages, hasSubgroup, Western Bukidnon Manobo]
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A.
Agusan Manobo
The Agusan Manobo are an indigenous subgroup of the Manobo people of Mindanao in the Philippines, known for their distinct language, rich oral traditions, and animist-influenced cultural practices.
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B.
Saranggani Manobo
Saranggani Manobo is an Austronesian language spoken by a Manobo ethnic group in the Sarangani and nearby regions of Mindanao in the southern Philippines.
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C.
Cotabato Manobo
Cotabato Manobo are an indigenous Manobo subgroup in the Cotabato region of the Philippines known for their distinct language, traditional customs, and rich oral and artistic heritage.
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D.
Bontoc people
The Bontoc people are an indigenous ethnic group of the northern Philippines known for their rich oral traditions, rice terrace agriculture, and distinctive rituals and material culture.
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E.
Bontoc
Bontoc is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bontoc people in the Mountain Province of the northern Philippines.
- 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: Western Bukidnon Manobo Target entity description: Western Bukidnon Manobo is an Austronesian language spoken by the Manobo people in the western part of Bukidnon province on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.
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A.
Agusan Manobo
The Agusan Manobo are an indigenous subgroup of the Manobo people of Mindanao in the Philippines, known for their distinct language, rich oral traditions, and animist-influenced cultural practices.
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B.
Saranggani Manobo
Saranggani Manobo is an Austronesian language spoken by a Manobo ethnic group in the Sarangani and nearby regions of Mindanao in the southern Philippines.
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C.
Cotabato Manobo
Cotabato Manobo are an indigenous Manobo subgroup in the Cotabato region of the Philippines known for their distinct language, traditional customs, and rich oral and artistic heritage.
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D.
Bontoc people
The Bontoc people are an indigenous ethnic group of the northern Philippines known for their rich oral traditions, rice terrace agriculture, and distinctive rituals and material culture.
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E.
Bontoc
Bontoc is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bontoc people in the Mountain Province of the northern Philippines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Manobo language ⓘ Philippine language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| belongsToBranch |
Southern Manobo languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Manobo languages
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Manobo
ⓘ
linked to:
Manobo people
|
| glottocode | west2556 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Western Bukidnon Manobo language
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Bukidnon Manobo
|
| hasDialects |
Ilentungen
ⓘ
Kiriyenteken ⓘ Pulangi ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
Austronesian-type pronoun system
ⓘ
focus-based voice system ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ verb-initial word order tendency ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Binukid
ⓘ
Central Bukidnon Manobo ⓘ Matigsalug Manobo ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | mbb ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Manobo languages of Mindanao
ⓘ
linked to:
Manobo languages
|
| languageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
Greater Central Philippine ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian ⓘ Manobo ⓘ |
| languageOf | indigenous people of Bukidnon ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
island of Mindanao
ⓘ
linked to:
Mindanao
|
| primaryLocation | upland areas of western Bukidnon ⓘ |
| region | western part of Bukidnon province ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Manobo people
ⓘ
Western Bukidnon Manobo people ⓘ
linked to:
Western Bukidnon Manobo
|
| spokenIn |
Bukidnon province
ⓘ
linked to:
Bukidnon Province
Mindanao ⓘ Philippines ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Austronesian language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
Greater Central Philippine language ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ |
| usedFor |
oral tradition
ⓘ
rituals ⓘ songs ⓘ storytelling ⓘ |
| usedIn | daily communication among Western Bukidnon Manobo communities ⓘ |
| 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: Western Bukidnon Manobo Description of subject: Western Bukidnon Manobo is an Austronesian language spoken by the Manobo people in the western part of Bukidnon province on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Western Bukidnon Manobo
linked to: Western Bukidnon Manobo
linked to: Western Bukidnon Manobo
linked to: Western Bukidnon Manobo