Blaan language
E588584
Blaan is an Austronesian language spoken by the Blaan people of southern Mindanao in the Philippines, known for its rich oral tradition and complex verb morphology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blaan language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6358107 — 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: Blaan language Context triple: [Proto-Philippine language, hasDescendant, Blaan language]
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A.
Blablanga language
The Blablanga language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Northwest Solomonic subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
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B.
Balangao language
The Balangao language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Balangao people in the Mountain Province of the northern Philippines.
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C.
Tubatulabal language
The Tubatulabal language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Tubatulabal people of the southern Sierra Nevada region in California.
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D.
Bontok language
The Bontok language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bontok people of the Mountain Province in the northern Philippines, known for its rich oral traditions and distinct dialects.
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E.
Bambam language
The Bambam language is an Austronesian language spoken in parts of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its place within the region’s diverse indigenous linguistic landscape.
- 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: Blaan language Target entity description: Blaan is an Austronesian language spoken by the Blaan people of southern Mindanao in the Philippines, known for its rich oral tradition and complex verb morphology.
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A.
Blablanga language
The Blablanga language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Northwest Solomonic subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
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B.
Balangao language
The Balangao language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Balangao people in the Mountain Province of the northern Philippines.
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C.
Tubatulabal language
The Tubatulabal language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Tubatulabal people of the southern Sierra Nevada region in California.
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D.
Bontok language
The Bontok language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bontok people of the Mountain Province in the northern Philippines, known for its rich oral traditions and distinct dialects.
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E.
Bambam language
The Bambam language is an Austronesian language spoken in parts of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its place within the region’s diverse indigenous linguistic landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Philippine language ⓘ |
| altName |
Bilaan
ⓘ
Blaan NERFINISHED ⓘ B’laan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupAssociated | Blaan people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Koronadal Blaan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sarangani Blaan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
affixation
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ complex verb morphology ⓘ rich oral tradition ⓘ verb focus system ⓘ voice alternations ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | bila1258 ⓘ |
| hasPhonologyFeature |
contrastive stops and nasals
ⓘ
vowel length distinctions (in some analyses) ⓘ |
| hasStatus | minority language in the Philippines ⓘ |
| hasTypology | verb-initial word order tendency ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
| ISO639-3Code | bpr ⓘ |
| isPartOf | South Mindanao linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian
|
| region |
Davao Region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Soccsksargen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Cebuano language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hiligaynon language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tagalog language ⓘ Tboli language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Blaan people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Mindanao
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Philippines ⓘ southern Mindanao ⓘ |
| spokenInProvince |
Davao Occidental
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Davao del Sur NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarangani NERFINISHED ⓘ South Cotabato NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subgroup | Greater Central Philippine languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
oral literature
ⓘ
ritual speech ⓘ storytelling ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ |
| writingSystemBasis | 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: Blaan language Description of subject: Blaan is an Austronesian language spoken by the Blaan people of southern Mindanao in the Philippines, known for its rich oral tradition and complex verb morphology.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.