Bahasa Samawa
E639811
Bahasa Samawa is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, particularly by the Samawa (Sumbawanese) ethnic group.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bahasa Samawa canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7074512 — 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: Bahasa Samawa Context triple: [Sumbawa language, hasAlternateName, Bahasa Samawa]
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A.
Samoan language
The Samoan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in Samoa and American Samoa, serving as a key cultural and national language for Samoan people.
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B.
Niuafoʻou language
The Niuafoʻou language is an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the Tongan island of Niuafoʻou, notable for its close relation to the Tongan and Uvean languages.
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C.
Vaeakau-Taumako language
The Vaeakau-Taumako language is a Polynesian Outlier language spoken primarily in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands, known for preserving many archaic features of Proto-Polynesian.
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D.
Tuamotuan language
The Tuamotuan language is a Polynesian language spoken in the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia, closely related to other Eastern Polynesian languages such as Rarotongan.
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E.
Rarotongan language
The Rarotongan language is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken primarily on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands and often considered the prestige dialect of Cook Islands Māori.
- 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: Bahasa Samawa Target entity description: Bahasa Samawa is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, particularly by the Samawa (Sumbawanese) ethnic group.
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A.
Samoan language
The Samoan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in Samoa and American Samoa, serving as a key cultural and national language for Samoan people.
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B.
Niuafoʻou language
The Niuafoʻou language is an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the Tongan island of Niuafoʻou, notable for its close relation to the Tongan and Uvean languages.
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C.
Vaeakau-Taumako language
The Vaeakau-Taumako language is a Polynesian Outlier language spoken primarily in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands, known for preserving many archaic features of Proto-Polynesian.
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D.
Tuamotuan language
The Tuamotuan language is a Polynesian language spoken in the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia, closely related to other Eastern Polynesian languages such as Rarotongan.
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E.
Rarotongan language
The Rarotongan language is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken primarily on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands and often considered the prestige dialect of Cook Islands Māori.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Bahasa Sumbawa
ⓘ
linked to:
Sumbawa language
Samawa language ⓘ Sumbawanese language ⓘ
linked to:
Sumbawa language
|
| associatedWith |
Samawa oral poetry
ⓘ
Samawa traditional literature ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Balinese language
ⓘ
Bimanese language ⓘ Sasak language ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Samawa people
ⓘ
Sumbawanese people ⓘ
linked to:
Sumbawa people
|
| glottocode | sumb1242 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Sumbawa ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Jereweh dialect
ⓘ
Taliwang dialect ⓘ Tongo dialect ⓘ |
| hasDomainOfUse |
home and community
ⓘ
local culture and traditions ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
Arabic
ⓘ
Dutch ⓘ Indonesian ⓘ Malay ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | contrastive vowel length not prominent ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticStatus | regional language in Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO-dominant ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
| ISO639-3Code | smw ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Sumbawa subgroup ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian ⓘ
linked to:
Malayo-Polynesian languages
|
| partOf | Central Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| primaryRegion | western Sumbawa Island ⓘ |
| region |
Lesser Sunda Islands
ⓘ
Sumbawa Island ⓘ
linked to:
Sumbawa
|
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Sumbawa Island ⓘ
linked to:
Sumbawa
West Nusa Tenggara ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Sumbawa languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa languages
|
| usedAlongside | Indonesian language ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication among Samawa people ⓘ |
| usesAffixation |
infixes
ⓘ
prefixes ⓘ reduplication ⓘ suffixes ⓘ |
| usesScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| writingSystemStatus | primarily oral with growing written use ⓘ |
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: Bahasa Samawa Description of subject: Bahasa Samawa is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, particularly by the Samawa (Sumbawanese) ethnic group.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.