Lewa language
E642379
Lewa language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sumba people on Sumba Island in eastern Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lewa language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7103177 — 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: Lewa language Context triple: [Sumba people, language, Lewa language]
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A.
Lemolang language
Lemolang is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Lavukaleve language
Lavukaleve is a Papuan language spoken by the Lavukal people of the Russell Islands in the Solomon Islands, known for its complex grammar and status as one of the Central Solomons languages.
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C.
Lusei language
The Lusei language is a Kuki-Chin language of the Tibeto-Burman family spoken primarily by the Lusei (Mizo) people in northeastern India, especially in Mizoram.
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D.
Woleaian language
The Woleaian language is a Micronesian language spoken primarily on the atolls of Woleai and nearby islands in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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E.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
- 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: Lewa language Target entity description: Lewa language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sumba people on Sumba Island in eastern Indonesia.
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A.
Lemolang language
Lemolang is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Lavukaleve language
Lavukaleve is a Papuan language spoken by the Lavukal people of the Russell Islands in the Solomon Islands, known for its complex grammar and status as one of the Central Solomons languages.
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C.
Lusei language
The Lusei language is a Kuki-Chin language of the Tibeto-Burman family spoken primarily by the Lusei (Mizo) people in northeastern India, especially in Mizoram.
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D.
Woleaian language
The Woleaian language is a Micronesian language spoken primarily on the atolls of Woleai and nearby islands in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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E.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable language ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Lewa people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Lewa Sumba
ⓘ
linked to:
Sumba
Lewo ⓘ
linked to:
Lewa
|
| hasGlottocode | lewa1243 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Lewa ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | lww ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasTypology | SVO word order ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Austronesian languages of Asia
ⓘ
languages of Indonesia ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Lesser Sunda Islands ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Anakalangu language
ⓘ
Kambera language ⓘ Mamboru language ⓘ |
| region | eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Sumba people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
East Nusa Tenggara
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ Sumba Island ⓘ
linked to:
Sumba
|
| subclassOf |
Central Malayo-Polynesian language
ⓘ
Sumba language ⓘ
linked to:
Sumba–Flores languages
|
| usedFor | oral communication ⓘ |
| 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: Lewa language Description of subject: Lewa language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sumba people on Sumba Island in eastern Indonesia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.