Tobelo language
E661509
The Tobelo language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tobelo people of northern Halmahera in Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tobelo language canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7408095 — 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: Tobelo language Context triple: [Buli language, isGeographicallyCloseTo, Tobelo language]
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A.
Tolai language
The Tolai language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Tolai people of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
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B.
Bontok language
The Bontok language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bontok people of the Mountain Province in the northern Philippines, known for its rich oral traditions and distinct dialects.
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C.
Tubatulabal language
The Tubatulabal language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Tubatulabal people of the southern Sierra Nevada region in California.
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D.
Tawala language
Tawala language is an Austronesian language of the Papuan Tip region of Papua New Guinea, spoken primarily in coastal communities of Milne Bay Province.
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E.
Embaloh language
The Embaloh language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Embaloh people of West Kalimantan in Borneo, Indonesia.
- 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: Tobelo language Target entity description: The Tobelo language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tobelo people of northern Halmahera in Indonesia.
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A.
Tolai language
The Tolai language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Tolai people of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
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B.
Bontok language
The Bontok language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bontok people of the Mountain Province in the northern Philippines, known for its rich oral traditions and distinct dialects.
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C.
Tubatulabal language
The Tubatulabal language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Tubatulabal people of the southern Sierra Nevada region in California.
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D.
Tawala language
Tawala language is an Austronesian language of the Papuan Tip region of Papua New Guinea, spoken primarily in coastal communities of Milne Bay Province.
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E.
Embaloh language
The Embaloh language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Embaloh people of West Kalimantan in Borneo, Indonesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| belongsToSubgroup | Tobelo–Galela subgroup ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Galela language
ⓘ
Loloda language ⓘ Modole language ⓘ Pagu language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnologueCode | tlb ⓘ |
| glottologCode | tobe1258 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Tobelo ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Tobeloan ⓘ |
| hasClauseStructure | predicate-initial in some constructions ⓘ |
| hasContactWith |
Indonesian language
ⓘ
North Moluccan Malay ⓘ Ternate language ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Boeng dialect
ⓘ
Dodinga dialect ⓘ Kakara dialect ⓘ Mareko dialect ⓘ Tobelo proper dialect ⓘ Tugutil dialect ⓘ |
| hasLexicalBorrowingFrom |
Malay
ⓘ
Ternate Malay ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticArea |
North Halmahera linguistic area
ⓘ
linked to:
North Halmahera languages
|
| hasMorphologicalType | moderately agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
prenasalized stops ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | tlb ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | descriptive grammars in Austronesian linguistics ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC+9 ⓘ |
| primaryWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| region | northern Halmahera ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Tobelo people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Halmahera Island
ⓘ
linked to:
Halmahera
Indonesia ⓘ North Halmahera ⓘ
linked to:
Halmahera
|
| subfamily | West Papuan Malay contact area ⓘ |
| usedAs | marker of Tobelo ethnic identity ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication among Tobelo people ⓘ |
| usedIn | traditional oral literature of Tobelo people ⓘ |
| 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: Tobelo language Description of subject: The Tobelo language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tobelo people of northern Halmahera in Indonesia.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.