Suwawa
E683699
Suwawa is an Austronesian language spoken by the Suwawa people in the northern part of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Suwawa canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7720883 — 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: Suwawa Context triple: [Suwawa language, glottologName, Suwawa]
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A.
Shumshu
Shumshu is a small, strategically significant volcanic island at the northern end of the Kuril Islands chain, near the Kamchatka Peninsula.
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B.
Karasuwa
Karasuwa is a local government area in northeastern Nigeria known for its predominantly rural communities and agricultural activities within Yobe State.
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C.
Suwa
Suwa is an idol mentioned in the Quran as one of the false deities worshipped by the people of the prophet Noah.
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D.
Nawada
Nawada is a town and administrative center in eastern India known for being the headquarters of Nawada district in the state of Bihar.
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E.
Ishkashimi
Ishkashimi is a lesser-known Eastern Iranian language spoken by small communities in parts of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
- 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: Suwawa Target entity description: Suwawa is an Austronesian language spoken by the Suwawa people in the northern part of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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A.
Shumshu
Shumshu is a small, strategically significant volcanic island at the northern end of the Kuril Islands chain, near the Kamchatka Peninsula.
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B.
Karasuwa
Karasuwa is a local government area in northeastern Nigeria known for its predominantly rural communities and agricultural activities within Yobe State.
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C.
Suwa
Suwa is an idol mentioned in the Quran as one of the false deities worshipped by the people of the prophet Noah.
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D.
Nawada
Nawada is a town and administrative center in eastern India known for being the headquarters of Nawada district in the state of Bihar.
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E.
Ishkashimi
Ishkashimi is a lesser-known Eastern Iranian language spoken by small communities in parts of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Bonda
ⓘ
linked to:
Bonda’
Bonda’ ⓘ Bonda’ language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Atinggola language
ⓘ
Bolango language ⓘ Gorontalo language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| glottologName | Suwawa ⓘ |
| hasDomain | home and community domains ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Suwawa people ⓘ |
| hasEthnologueEntry | Suwawa language entry ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | suwa1241 ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | swu ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResource |
basic grammatical sketches
ⓘ
descriptive wordlists ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
SVO word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakers | several thousand (approximate, low tens of thousands) ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions)
ⓘ
prenasalized stops ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| languageStatus | minority language in Indonesia ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Gulf of Tomini ⓘ |
| partOf | Greater Central Philippine languages ⓘ |
| region |
northern Sulawesi
ⓘ
linked to:
North Sulawesi
|
| spokenBy | Suwawa people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
North Sulawesi ⓘ Sulawesi ⓘ
linked to:
Celebes
|
| subclassOf | Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
language shift to Indonesian
ⓘ
language shift to Manado Malay ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication within Suwawa communities
ⓘ
local cultural practices ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Gorontalo Province
ⓘ
linked to:
Gorontalo
|
| 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: Suwawa Description of subject: Suwawa is an Austronesian language spoken by the Suwawa people in the northern part of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.