Tobaku
E569523
Tobaku is a dialect of the Uma language spoken by an indigenous community in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tobaku canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6098978 — 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: Tobaku Context triple: [Uma language, hasDialect, Tobaku]
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A.
Takashima
Takashima is a lakeside city in western Shiga Prefecture, Japan, known for its scenic location along Lake Biwa and surrounding mountains.
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B.
Takashima
Takashima is a prominent commercial and waterfront district in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, known for major shopping complexes and modern urban development.
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C.
Tatsuno
Tatsuno is a city in western Japan known for its traditional soy sauce production and historic townscape within Hyogo Prefecture.
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D.
Ishkashimi
Ishkashimi is a lesser-known Eastern Iranian language spoken by small communities in parts of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
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E.
Yoiyama
Yoiyama is the lively evening street festival held before the main Gion Matsuri parade in Kyoto, featuring illuminated festival floats, food stalls, and traditional music.
- 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: Tobaku Target entity description: Tobaku is a dialect of the Uma language spoken by an indigenous community in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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A.
Takashima
Takashima is a lakeside city in western Shiga Prefecture, Japan, known for its scenic location along Lake Biwa and surrounding mountains.
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B.
Takashima
Takashima is a prominent commercial and waterfront district in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, known for major shopping complexes and modern urban development.
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C.
Tatsuno
Tatsuno is a city in western Japan known for its traditional soy sauce production and historic townscape within Hyogo Prefecture.
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D.
Ishkashimi
Ishkashimi is a lesser-known Eastern Iranian language spoken by small communities in parts of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
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E.
Yoiyama
Yoiyama is the lively evening street festival held before the main Gion Matsuri parade in Kyoto, featuring illuminated festival floats, food stalls, and traditional music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dialect
ⓘ
variety of the Uma language ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Austronesian language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian branch ⓘ
linked to:
Malayo-Polynesian languages
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Sulawesi
|
| hasCommunity | Tobaku-speaking indigenous community ⓘ |
| hasDialectStatus | dialect of Uma ⓘ |
| hasSpeakersType | indigenous people ⓘ |
| hasStatus | minority language variety ⓘ |
| isEndangered | possible ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| linguisticType | spoken language variety ⓘ |
| partOf | Uma language ⓘ |
| region |
Sulawesi
ⓘ
linked to:
Sulawesi region
|
| relatedTo | Uma language ⓘ |
| script | Latin script ⓘ |
| spokenBy | indigenous community in Central Sulawesi ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Central Sulawesi
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| usedFor | oral communication in local community ⓘ |
| usedIn | traditional cultural contexts in Central Sulawesi ⓘ |
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: Tobaku Description of subject: Tobaku is a dialect of the Uma language spoken by an indigenous community in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.