Toundanow language
E657057
The Toundanow language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tonsawang people of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toundano language | 1 |
| Toundanouh language | 1 |
| Toundanow language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7305164 — 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: Toundanow language Context triple: [Tonsawang language, hasAlternativeName, Toundanow language]
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A.
Towa language
Towa is a Native American language spoken by the Towa (Jemez) people of New Mexico and is part of the Puebloan language family.
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B.
Tawbuid language
The Tawbuid language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tawbuid (Batangan) Mangyan people of Mindoro in the Philippines, closely related to other South Mangyan languages.
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C.
Nendö language
The Nendö language is an Oceanic language spoken on Nendö Island in the Solomon Islands’ Temotu Province.
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D.
Touo language
Touo is an Oceanic language spoken by a small community in the Solomon Islands, noted for its distinct phonology and limited number of speakers.
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E.
Nitinaht language
The Nitinaht language is a Southern Wakashan Indigenous language spoken by the Ditidaht (Nitinaht) people of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
- 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: Toundanow language Target entity description: The Toundanow language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tonsawang people of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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A.
Towa language
Towa is a Native American language spoken by the Towa (Jemez) people of New Mexico and is part of the Puebloan language family.
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B.
Tawbuid language
The Tawbuid language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tawbuid (Batangan) Mangyan people of Mindoro in the Philippines, closely related to other South Mangyan languages.
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C.
Nendö language
The Nendö language is an Oceanic language spoken on Nendö Island in the Solomon Islands’ Temotu Province.
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D.
Touo language
Touo is an Oceanic language spoken by a small community in the Solomon Islands, noted for its distinct phonology and limited number of speakers.
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E.
Nitinaht language
The Nitinaht language is a Southern Wakashan Indigenous language spoken by the Ditidaht (Nitinaht) people of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Tonsawang
ⓘ
Toundanow ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| geneticClassification | Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Philippine > Minahasan > Toundanow ⓘ |
| glottologName | Tonsawang ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | tons1240 ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions)
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rich consonant inventory typical of Minahasan languages ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | verb–initial tendency ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | tnw ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Philippine languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageGroup | Minahasan languages ⓘ |
| languageSubfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| region | northern Sulawesi ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Tonsawang people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
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North Sulawesi ⓘ Sulawesi ⓘ
linked to:
Celebes
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| usedIn |
oral literature of the Tonsawang people
ⓘ
traditional rituals of the Tonsawang people ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
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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: Toundanow language Description of subject: The Toundanow language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tonsawang people of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.