Tombulu language
E638877
Tombulu is an Austronesian language of the Minahasan group spoken in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, particularly around the city of Manado and its surrounding highland areas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tombulu language canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7051111 — 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: Tombulu language Context triple: [Tondano language, neighboringLanguage, Tombulu language]
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A.
Tawala language
Tawala language is an Austronesian language of the Papuan Tip region of Papua New Guinea, spoken primarily in coastal communities of Milne Bay Province.
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B.
Yulu language
The Yulu language is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Yulu people in parts of South Sudan and the Central African Republic.
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C.
Chumburung language
The Chumburung language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Chumburung people in Ghana.
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D.
Tamyen language
The Tamyen language is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the Santa Clara Valley region of California.
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E.
Kumzari language
The Kumzari language is an endangered Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Kumzari people in the Musandam Peninsula of Oman.
- 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: Tombulu language Target entity description: Tombulu is an Austronesian language of the Minahasan group spoken in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, particularly around the city of Manado and its surrounding highland areas.
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A.
Tawala language
Tawala language is an Austronesian language of the Papuan Tip region of Papua New Guinea, spoken primarily in coastal communities of Milne Bay Province.
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B.
Yulu language
The Yulu language is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Yulu people in parts of South Sudan and the Central African Republic.
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C.
Chumburung language
The Chumburung language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Chumburung people in Ghana.
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D.
Tamyen language
The Tamyen language is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the Santa Clara Valley region of California.
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E.
Kumzari language
The Kumzari language is an endangered Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Kumzari people in the Musandam Peninsula of Oman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Minahasan language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Tombulu’
ⓘ
Tombulu’ language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Tondano language
ⓘ
Tonsawang language ⓘ Tonsea language ⓘ Tontemboan language ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangermentCause |
dominance of Indonesian
ⓘ
language shift to Manado Malay ⓘ urbanization around Manado ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Minahasan people ⓘ |
| glottocode | tomb1243 ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Tombulu Pineleng dialect
ⓘ
Tombulu Tombariri dialect ⓘ Tombulu Tomohon dialect ⓘ Tombulu Tondano dialect ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | affixation for verb derivation ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length absent
ⓘ
typical Austronesian consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEffort |
church-based use in liturgy
ⓘ
community-based language classes ⓘ local cultural organizations ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature |
also uses SVO order
ⓘ
basic word order VSO ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | tom ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageStatus |
endangered language
ⓘ
threatened language ⓘ |
| region |
Minahasa
ⓘ
linked to:
Minahasa Peninsula
North Sulawesi ⓘ |
| shiftedTo |
Indonesian language
ⓘ
Manado Malay ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Tombulu people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Pineleng area
ⓘ
Tombariri area ⓘ Tombulu district ⓘ Tomohon area ⓘ
linked to:
Tomohon
Tondano area ⓘ areas around Manado ⓘ highland areas around Manado ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| subgroup |
Minahasan languages
ⓘ
Philippine languages ⓘ |
| usedIn |
oral literature
ⓘ
traditional Minahasan rituals ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
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
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: Tombulu language Description of subject: Tombulu is an Austronesian language of the Minahasan group spoken in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, particularly around the city of Manado and its surrounding highland areas.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.