Sangir language
E619188
The Sangir language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the Sangihe Islands in Indonesia and parts of the southern Philippines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sangir language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6786497 — 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: Sangir language Context triple: [Kaidipang language, hasNeighboringLanguage, Sangir language]
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A.
Sangisari language
The Sangisari language is an endangered Northwestern Iranian language spoken by a small community in northern Iran, notable for its distinct phonology and conservative grammatical features.
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B.
Sangpang language
The Sangpang language is a lesser-known Kiranti language spoken by an indigenous community in eastern Nepal.
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C.
Sungor language
The Sungor language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken by the Sungor people of eastern Chad and western Sudan.
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D.
Tonsawang language
Tonsawang language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tonsawang people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the Minahasan subgroup.
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E.
Sanglechi language
The Sanglechi language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by a small community in the Sanglech Valley region of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
- 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: Sangir language Target entity description: The Sangir language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the Sangihe Islands in Indonesia and parts of the southern Philippines.
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A.
Sangisari language
The Sangisari language is an endangered Northwestern Iranian language spoken by a small community in northern Iran, notable for its distinct phonology and conservative grammatical features.
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B.
Sangpang language
The Sangpang language is a lesser-known Kiranti language spoken by an indigenous community in eastern Nepal.
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C.
Sungor language
The Sungor language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken by the Sungor people of eastern Chad and western Sudan.
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D.
Tonsawang language
Tonsawang language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tonsawang people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the Minahasan subgroup.
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E.
Sanglechi language
The Sanglechi language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by a small community in the Sanglech Valley region of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Bantik language
ⓘ
linked to:
Bintauna language
Ratahan language ⓘ Talaud language ⓘ |
| country |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Philippines ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Sangir people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Sangihe language
ⓘ
Sangil language ⓘ Sangirese ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Austronesian
ⓘ
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian ⓘ
linked to:
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language
|
| hasDialects |
Manganitu dialect
ⓘ
North Sangir dialect ⓘ South Sangir dialect ⓘ Tamako dialect ⓘ |
| hasEndonym | Sangir ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | sang1344 ⓘ |
| hasLexicalSimilarityWith | other North Sulawesi languages ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
ⓘ
prenasalized stops ⓘ |
| hasStatus | regional language ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
| ISO639-3Code | sxn ⓘ |
| isSpokenBy | tens of thousands of speakers ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | comparative Austronesian linguistics research ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian ⓘ
linked to:
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Sangiric ⓘ |
| partOf |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| region |
North Sulawesi Province
ⓘ
linked to:
North Sulawesi
Sangihe Islands ⓘ Talaud Islands ⓘ
linked to:
Sangihe Islands
|
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
North Sulawesi ⓘ Philippines ⓘ Sangihe Islands ⓘ southern Philippines ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Sangiric languages ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
verb–initial word order tendency ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
Indonesian language
ⓘ
Manado Malay ⓘ |
| usedIn |
folklore
ⓘ
local oral tradition ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ |
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: Sangir language Description of subject: The Sangir language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the Sangihe Islands in Indonesia and parts of the southern Philippines.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.