Wajo dialect
E551250
The Wajo dialect is a regional variety of the Buginese language traditionally spoken in the Wajo area of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wajo dialect canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5790278 — 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: Wajo dialect Context triple: [Buginese language, hasDialects, Wajo dialect]
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A.
Wama dialect
The Wama dialect is a regional variety of the Ashkun language spoken by Nuristani communities in eastern Afghanistan.
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B.
Kamia dialect
The Kamia dialect is a regional variety of the Ipai-Tipai language traditionally spoken by the Kamia (Kumeyaay) people of southern California and northern Baja California.
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C.
Kuroshima dialect
The Kuroshima dialect is a local variety of the Yaeyama language spoken on Kuroshima Island in Okinawa, Japan, reflecting the island’s distinct Ryukyuan linguistic and cultural heritage.
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D.
Nohurli dialect
The Nohurli dialect is a regional variety of Turkmen spoken by the Nohur people in parts of Turkmenistan, distinguished by its unique phonetic and lexical features.
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E.
Kyushu dialect
The Kyushu dialect is a group of Japanese regional speech varieties spoken on Japan’s Kyushu island, known for distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar that can be hard for speakers of standard Japanese to understand.
- 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: Wajo dialect Target entity description: The Wajo dialect is a regional variety of the Buginese language traditionally spoken in the Wajo area of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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A.
Wama dialect
The Wama dialect is a regional variety of the Ashkun language spoken by Nuristani communities in eastern Afghanistan.
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B.
Kamia dialect
The Kamia dialect is a regional variety of the Ipai-Tipai language traditionally spoken by the Kamia (Kumeyaay) people of southern California and northern Baja California.
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C.
Kuroshima dialect
The Kuroshima dialect is a local variety of the Yaeyama language spoken on Kuroshima Island in Okinawa, Japan, reflecting the island’s distinct Ryukyuan linguistic and cultural heritage.
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D.
Nohurli dialect
The Nohurli dialect is a regional variety of Turkmen spoken by the Nohur people in parts of Turkmenistan, distinguished by its unique phonetic and lexical features.
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E.
Kyushu dialect
The Kyushu dialect is a group of Japanese regional speech varieties spoken on Japan’s Kyushu island, known for distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar that can be hard for speakers of standard Japanese to understand.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dialect
ⓘ
regional variety of language ⓘ |
| alternateName | Wajo Bugis dialect ⓘ |
| associatedWithEthnicGroup | Buginese people ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | other Buginese dialects ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasAncestorLanguage |
Proto-Austronesian
ⓘ
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian ⓘ
linked to:
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language
Proto-South Sulawesi ⓘ
linked to:
South Sulawesi languages
|
| hasType | spoken language variety ⓘ |
| ISO639-3CodeOfParentLanguage | bug ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageSubgroup | South Sulawesi languages ⓘ |
| parentLanguage |
Bugis language
ⓘ
linked to:
Buginese language
|
| partOf | Buginese language ⓘ |
| region |
South Sulawesi
ⓘ
Sulawesi ⓘ
linked to:
Celebes
|
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
South Sulawesi ⓘ Wajo area ⓘ |
| traditionalRegion | Wajo Regency ⓘ |
| usedBy | local Buginese communities in Wajo ⓘ |
| usedFor | everyday communication ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
Lontara 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: Wajo dialect Description of subject: The Wajo dialect is a regional variety of the Buginese language traditionally spoken in the Wajo area of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.