Buli (Halmahera)
E661511
Buli (Halmahera) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Buli people on the island of Halmahera in eastern Indonesia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Buli (Halmahera) canonical | 2 |
| Buli (Indonesia) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7408105 — 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: Buli (Halmahera) Context triple: [Buli language, hasAlternativeName, Buli (Halmahera)]
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A.
Bolango-Bulango
Bolango-Bulango is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bolango people in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Halmahera
Halmahera is the largest island in Indonesia’s Maluku archipelago, known for its rugged terrain, rich biodiversity, and strategic location between the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
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C.
East Bolaang Mongondow Regency
East Bolaang Mongondow Regency is an administrative regency located in the province of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its coastal and rural landscapes.
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D.
South Bolaang Mongondow Regency
South Bolaang Mongondow Regency is an administrative regency located in the province of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its coastal and rural landscapes.
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E.
Tidore
Tidore is an island and historic sultanate in eastern Indonesia that was once a major center of the regional spice trade.
- 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: Buli (Halmahera) Target entity description: Buli (Halmahera) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Buli people on the island of Halmahera in eastern Indonesia.
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A.
Bolango-Bulango
Bolango-Bulango is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bolango people in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Halmahera
Halmahera is the largest island in Indonesia’s Maluku archipelago, known for its rugged terrain, rich biodiversity, and strategic location between the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
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C.
East Bolaang Mongondow Regency
East Bolaang Mongondow Regency is an administrative regency located in the province of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its coastal and rural landscapes.
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D.
South Bolaang Mongondow Regency
South Bolaang Mongondow Regency is an administrative regency located in the province of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its coastal and rural landscapes.
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E.
Tidore
Tidore is an island and historic sultanate in eastern Indonesia that was once a major center of the regional spice trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Buli people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Buli
ⓘ
Buli language ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | buli1254 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Buli ⓘ |
| hasLanguageStatus | minority language in Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology | SVO word order ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakers | several thousand speakers ⓘ |
| island | Halmahera ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | bwu ⓘ |
| isPartOfLinguisticArea |
North Halmahera–Maluku contact area
ⓘ
linked to:
Halmahera–New Guinea contact zone
|
| isSpokenNear | Buli Bay ⓘ |
| isSpokenOnSideOfIsland | eastern Halmahera ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Eastern Indonesia
ⓘ
linked to:
eastern Indonesia
Maluku Islands ⓘ |
| region |
North Maluku
ⓘ
linked to:
North Maluku Province
|
| spokenBy | Buli people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Halmahera
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
|
| 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: Buli (Halmahera) Description of subject: Buli (Halmahera) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Buli people on the island of Halmahera in eastern Indonesia.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Buli (Halmahera)