Sumba–Flores languages
E628688
The Sumba–Flores languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken on the islands of Sumba and Flores in eastern Indonesia, encompassing several closely related regional languages.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sumba languages | 6 |
| Sumba–Flores language | 2 |
| Sumba–Flores languages canonical | 2 |
| Sumba language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6940110 — 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: Sumba–Flores languages Context triple: [Lamboya language, languageFamily, Sumba–Flores languages]
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A.
Bima–Sumba languages
The Bima–Sumba languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily on the islands of Sumbawa and Sumba in eastern Indonesia.
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B.
Flores–Lembata languages
The Flores–Lembata languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken on the islands of Flores and Lembata in eastern Indonesia, known for their distinctive phonological and grammatical features within the region.
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C.
Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa languages
The Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily on the islands of Bali, Lombok, and Sumbawa in Indonesia.
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D.
Timor–Babar languages
The Timor–Babar languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily on Timor and nearby islands in eastern Indonesia, noted for their complex phonologies and diverse grammatical structures.
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E.
Alor–Pantar languages
The Alor–Pantar languages are a group of non-Austronesian (Papuan) languages spoken primarily on the Alor and Pantar islands in eastern Indonesia, noted for their complex morphology and typological diversity.
- 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: Sumba–Flores languages Target entity description: The Sumba–Flores languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken on the islands of Sumba and Flores in eastern Indonesia, encompassing several closely related regional languages.
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A.
Bima–Sumba languages
The Bima–Sumba languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily on the islands of Sumbawa and Sumba in eastern Indonesia.
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B.
Flores–Lembata languages
The Flores–Lembata languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken on the islands of Flores and Lembata in eastern Indonesia, known for their distinctive phonological and grammatical features within the region.
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C.
Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa languages
The Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily on the islands of Bali, Lombok, and Sumbawa in Indonesia.
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D.
Timor–Babar languages
The Timor–Babar languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily on Timor and nearby islands in eastern Indonesia, noted for their complex phonologies and diverse grammatical structures.
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E.
Alor–Pantar languages
The Alor–Pantar languages are a group of non-Austronesian (Papuan) languages spoken primarily on the Alor and Pantar islands in eastern Indonesia, noted for their complex morphology and typological diversity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian languages subgroup
ⓘ
language subgroup ⓘ |
| arealContact |
Papuan languages of eastern Indonesia
ⓘ
other Central Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| arealGroup | Nusa Tenggara languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Flores Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sumba Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Adonara language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alorese language NERFINISHED ⓘ Anakalangu language ⓘ Dhao language NERFINISHED ⓘ Ende language NERFINISHED ⓘ Hawu language ⓘ Kambera language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kedang language NERFINISHED ⓘ Keo language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kodi language ⓘ Lamaholot language NERFINISHED ⓘ Lamboya language NERFINISHED ⓘ Lio language NERFINISHED ⓘ Mamboru language NERFINISHED ⓘ Manggarai language NERFINISHED ⓘ Nage language NERFINISHED ⓘ Ngadha language NERFINISHED ⓘ Paluwe language ⓘ Rembong language NERFINISHED ⓘ Sika language NERFINISHED ⓘ Solor language NERFINISHED ⓘ Waiapu language ⓘ Wejewa language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup |
Flores languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sumba languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian
|
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC+8 ⓘ |
| partOf | Austronesian language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | East Nusa Tenggara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Lesser Sunda Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| spokenOn |
Flores
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sumba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Central Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
predominantly SVO word order
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rich verbal morphology ⓘ use of pronominal clitics ⓘ |
| usedBy |
ethnic groups of Flores
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ethnic groups of Sumba ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
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surface form:
Latin script
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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: Sumba–Flores languages Description of subject: The Sumba–Flores languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken on the islands of Sumba and Flores in eastern Indonesia, encompassing several closely related regional languages.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sumba languages
this entity surface form:
Sumba languages
this entity surface form:
Sumba–Flores language
this entity surface form:
Sumba languages
this entity surface form:
Sumba–Flores language
this entity surface form:
Sumba language
this entity surface form:
Sumba languages
this entity surface form:
Sumba languages
this entity surface form:
Sumba languages