Butonese Wolio
E569509
Butonese Wolio is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its historical use in the Wolio Sultanate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Butonese Wolio canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6098858 — 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: Butonese Wolio Context triple: [Wolio language, hasAlternativeName, Butonese Wolio]
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A.
Labasa
Labasa is a major town in northern Fiji on the island of Vanua Levu, known as an important commercial and administrative center for the surrounding sugarcane-growing region.
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B.
Sarigan
Sarigan is a small, uninhabited volcanic island in the Northern Mariana Islands known for its active stratovolcano and protected wildlife habitats.
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C.
Wolamo
Wolamo is an alternative name for the Wolaytta people, an ethnic group primarily living in southern Ethiopia with their own distinct language and culture.
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D.
Palolo
Palolo is a residential valley neighborhood in urban Honolulu on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
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E.
Oshiwambo
Oshiwambo is a Bantu language (or cluster of closely related dialects) widely spoken by the Ovambo people in northern Namibia and southern Angola.
- 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: Butonese Wolio Target entity description: Butonese Wolio is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its historical use in the Wolio Sultanate.
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A.
Labasa
Labasa is a major town in northern Fiji on the island of Vanua Levu, known as an important commercial and administrative center for the surrounding sugarcane-growing region.
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B.
Sarigan
Sarigan is a small, uninhabited volcanic island in the Northern Mariana Islands known for its active stratovolcano and protected wildlife habitats.
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C.
Wolamo
Wolamo is an alternative name for the Wolaytta people, an ethnic group primarily living in southern Ethiopia with their own distinct language and culture.
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D.
Palolo
Palolo is a residential valley neighborhood in urban Honolulu on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
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E.
Oshiwambo
Oshiwambo is a Bantu language (or cluster of closely related dialects) widely spoken by the Ovambo people in northern Namibia and southern Angola.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Wolio ⓘ |
| belongsToSubgroup | Muna–Buton languages ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Busoa language
ⓘ
Cia-Cia language ⓘ Muna language ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasBasicWordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Baubau dialect
ⓘ
Kaimbulawa dialect ⓘ Kokalukuna dialect ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
Islamic religious texts in Buton
ⓘ
court literature of the Wolio Sultanate ⓘ |
| hasEthnologueEntry | true ⓘ |
| hasGlottologCode | woli1243 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Wolio ⓘ |
| hasISO639Code | wlo ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
verb-initial word order tendencies ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
Arabic
ⓘ
Indonesian ⓘ Malay ⓘ |
| hasMorphosyntacticAlignment | Austronesian alignment ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
prenasalized stops ⓘ |
| hasScriptVariant | Jawi-based Arabic script for Wolio ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation | shift towards Indonesian among younger speakers ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodOfProminence | early modern period in Southeast Sulawesi ⓘ |
| historicalUse | Wolio Sultanate ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Indonesia ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| languageSubfamily | Malayo-Polynesian ⓘ |
| region |
Sulawesi
ⓘ
linked to:
Celebes
|
| spokenIn |
Buton Island
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ Southeast Sulawesi ⓘ |
| usedAs |
administrative language of the Wolio Sultanate
ⓘ
literary language of the Wolio Sultanate ⓘ |
| usedBy | Butonese people ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Baubau city
ⓘ
linked to:
Baubau
|
| writingSystem |
Arabic script
ⓘ
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
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Input
Subject: Butonese Wolio Description of subject: Butonese Wolio is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its historical use in the Wolio Sultanate.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.