Hewa (Flores–Lembata)
E682547
Hewa (Flores–Lembata) is an Austronesian language spoken by communities on the islands of Flores and Lembata in eastern Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hewa (Flores–Lembata) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7713344 — 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: Hewa (Flores–Lembata) Context triple: [Hewa language, hasAlternativeName, Hewa (Flores–Lembata)]
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A.
Laut Flores
Laut Flores, or the Flores Sea, is a marginal sea in Indonesia known for its deep basins, rich marine biodiversity, and location among the Lesser Sunda Islands.
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B.
Jong Celebes
Jong Celebes was a regional youth organization from Sulawesi that played a role in Indonesia’s early nationalist movement during the colonial era.
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C.
Lembata
Lembata is an island in Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands, known for its traditional whaling communities and volcanic landscapes.
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D.
Maiwa (Sulawesi)
Maiwa (Sulawesi) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maiwa people in the South Sulawesi region of Indonesia.
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E.
Waiwai
The Waiwai are an Indigenous people of the Amazonian Guianas known for their forest-based livelihoods, rich shamanic traditions, and small village communities spread across southern Guyana and northern Brazil.
- 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: Hewa (Flores–Lembata) Target entity description: Hewa (Flores–Lembata) is an Austronesian language spoken by communities on the islands of Flores and Lembata in eastern Indonesia.
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A.
Laut Flores
Laut Flores, or the Flores Sea, is a marginal sea in Indonesia known for its deep basins, rich marine biodiversity, and location among the Lesser Sunda Islands.
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B.
Jong Celebes
Jong Celebes was a regional youth organization from Sulawesi that played a role in Indonesia’s early nationalist movement during the colonial era.
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C.
Lembata
Lembata is an island in Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands, known for its traditional whaling communities and volcanic landscapes.
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D.
Maiwa (Sulawesi)
Maiwa (Sulawesi) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maiwa people in the South Sulawesi region of Indonesia.
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E.
Waiwai
The Waiwai are an Indigenous people of the Amazonian Guianas known for their forest-based livelihoods, rich shamanic traditions, and small village communities spread across southern Guyana and northern Brazil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasSpeakersIn |
East Nusa Tenggara Province
ⓘ
linked to:
East Nusa Tenggara
|
| languageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| languageStatus | minority language ⓘ |
| macroRegion |
Eastern Indonesia
ⓘ
linked to:
eastern Indonesia
|
| partOf |
Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia
ⓘ
languages of Indonesia ⓘ |
| region |
Flores Island
ⓘ
linked to:
Flores
Lembata Island ⓘ
linked to:
Lembata
|
| spokenIn |
Flores
ⓘ
Lembata ⓘ eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| spokenInCountry | Indonesia ⓘ |
| subcontinent | Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| usedBy |
local communities on Flores
ⓘ
local communities on Lembata ⓘ |
| 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: Hewa (Flores–Lembata) Description of subject: Hewa (Flores–Lembata) is an Austronesian language spoken by communities on the islands of Flores and Lembata in eastern Indonesia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.