Tontemboan
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Tontemboan is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tontemboan people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tontemboan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7197744 — 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: Tontemboan Context triple: [Tontemboan language, hasAlternativeName, Tontemboan]
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A.
Abong-Mbang
Abong-Mbang is a town in eastern Cameroon that serves as a local administrative and commercial center in the East Region.
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B.
Dutsin-Ma
Dutsin-Ma is a town in northern Nigeria known for hosting the Federal University Dutsin-Ma and serving as an important local commercial and educational center.
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C.
Rumuokoro
Rumuokoro is a bustling urban town and major commercial transport hub in Obio-Akpor, within the Port Harcourt metropolitan area of Rivers State, Nigeria.
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D.
Benina
Benina is a town in eastern Libya that serves as the main gateway to the nearby city of Benghazi through its international airport.
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E.
Abamakoro
Abamakoro is a small village located on the island of Nonouti in the Republic of Kiribati in the central Pacific Ocean.
- 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: Tontemboan Target entity description: Tontemboan is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tontemboan people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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A.
Abong-Mbang
Abong-Mbang is a town in eastern Cameroon that serves as a local administrative and commercial center in the East Region.
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B.
Dutsin-Ma
Dutsin-Ma is a town in northern Nigeria known for hosting the Federal University Dutsin-Ma and serving as an important local commercial and educational center.
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C.
Rumuokoro
Rumuokoro is a bustling urban town and major commercial transport hub in Obio-Akpor, within the Port Harcourt metropolitan area of Rivers State, Nigeria.
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D.
Benina
Benina is a town in eastern Libya that serves as the main gateway to the nearby city of Benghazi through its international airport.
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E.
Abamakoro
Abamakoro is a small village located on the island of Nonouti in the Republic of Kiribati in the central Pacific Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Tombulu language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tondano language ⓘ Tonsawang language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tonsea language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus |
threatened
ⓘ
vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Tompakewa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tompakewa-Tontemboan NERFINISHED ⓘ Tountemboan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Austronesian
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED ⓘ Proto-Minahasan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Makelai
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Matau NERFINISHED ⓘ Rumoong NERFINISHED ⓘ Tombasian NERFINISHED ⓘ Tountemboan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
affixation
ⓘ
voice system ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length absent
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | tnt ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED ⓘ Minahasan ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology | SVO word order ⓘ |
| region |
Minahasa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sulawesi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Tontemboan people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
North Sulawesi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Minahasan language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
comparative Austronesian research
ⓘ
descriptive grammars ⓘ lexicographic studies ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| 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: Tontemboan Description of subject: Tontemboan is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tontemboan people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.