Tonsawang
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Tonsawang is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tonsawang people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tonsawang canonical | 3 |
| Tonsawang-Toundanow | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7051156 — 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: Tonsawang Context triple: [Pasan language, hasAlternativeName, Tonsawang]
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A.
Tillangchong
Tillangchong is a remote, sparsely inhabited island in India’s Nicobar archipelago, noted for its dense tropical forests and rich marine and bird life.
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B.
Tasiwit
Tasiwit is an alternative name for Siwi, a Berber language spoken in Egypt’s Siwa Oasis.
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C.
Mongnai
Mongnai is a historic town and former princely state in Myanmar’s Shan region, known for its role within the traditional Shan States.
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D.
Thongduang
Thongduang was the birth name of King Rama I of Siam, the founder and first monarch of Thailand’s Chakri Dynasty.
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E.
Tambolaka
Tambolaka is a town on the Indonesian island of Sumba that serves as an important local hub with an airport and access point for exploring the island.
- 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: Tonsawang Target entity description: Tonsawang is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tonsawang people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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A.
Tillangchong
Tillangchong is a remote, sparsely inhabited island in India’s Nicobar archipelago, noted for its dense tropical forests and rich marine and bird life.
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B.
Tasiwit
Tasiwit is an alternative name for Siwi, a Berber language spoken in Egypt’s Siwa Oasis.
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C.
Mongnai
Mongnai is a historic town and former princely state in Myanmar’s Shan region, known for its role within the traditional Shan States.
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D.
Thongduang
Thongduang was the birth name of King Rama I of Siam, the founder and first monarch of Thailand’s Chakri Dynasty.
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E.
Tambolaka
Tambolaka is a town on the Indonesian island of Sumba that serves as an important local hub with an airport and access point for exploring the island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Western Malayo-Polynesian (traditional classification) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable language ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Tonsawang people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnologueCode | tnw ⓘ |
| glottologCode | tons1249 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Tonsawang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Tonsawang Minahasan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Toundano NERFINISHED ⓘ Toundanow ⓘ |
| hasDomainOfUse | home and local community ⓘ |
| hasLexicalSimilarityWith | other Minahasan languages ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResearch | documented in comparative studies of Minahasan languages ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
Indonesian
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Manado Malay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Tombulu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tondano NERFINISHED ⓘ Tonsea NERFINISHED ⓘ Tontemboan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (described in some analyses)
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasSmallerDomainOfUse | limited use in formal education ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation | language shift toward Indonesian ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity | Christian-majority population in North Sulawesi ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalFeature | Austronesian alignment patterns (described in literature) ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | verb–initial tendency ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | tnw ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageSubgroup | Minahasan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Minahasa linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLocation | Tonsawang area of North Sulawesi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Southeast Minahasa Regency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Tonsawang people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
North Sulawesi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Minahasan language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | descriptive linguistic studies on Minahasan languages ⓘ |
| usedIn | daily communication within Tonsawang communities ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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: Tonsawang Description of subject: Tonsawang is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tonsawang people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tonsawang-Toundanow