Sama
E700457
Sama is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sama-Bajau people of the southern Philippines and parts of Malaysia and Indonesia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sama canonical | 12 |
| Sama Southern | 1 |
| Simunul Sama | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7901156 — 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: Sama Context triple: [Central Sama, hasAlternativeName, Sama]
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A.
Samu
Samu is a given name, commonly used as a short form or variant of Samuel in various cultures.
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B.
Shama
Shama is a coastal town in Ghana known historically as a fishing community and trading post along the Gulf of Guinea.
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C.
Sindo
Sindo is an island and administrative division of Ongjin County in Incheon, South Korea, known for its rural landscape and coastal environment.
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D.
Seia
Seia is a municipality and town in central Portugal known for its proximity to the Serra da Estrela mountains and natural park.
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E.
Sambali
Sambali is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sambal people of the Zambales region in the Philippines.
- 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: Sama Target entity description: Sama is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sama-Bajau people of the southern Philippines and parts of Malaysia and Indonesia.
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A.
Samu
Samu is a given name, commonly used as a short form or variant of Samuel in various cultures.
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B.
Shama
Shama is a coastal town in Ghana known historically as a fishing community and trading post along the Gulf of Guinea.
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C.
Sindo
Sindo is an island and administrative division of Ongjin County in Incheon, South Korea, known for its rural landscape and coastal environment.
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D.
Seia
Seia is a municipality and town in central Portugal known for its proximity to the Serra da Estrela mountains and natural park.
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E.
Sambali
Sambali is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sambal people of the Zambales region in the Philippines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Bajau language
ⓘ
Sama-Bajau language ⓘ
linked to:
Sama-Bajau languages
|
| belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup |
Sama-Bajau
ⓘ
linked to:
Sama-Bajau peoples
|
| closelyRelatedTo |
Kapalangan language
ⓘ
Tausug language ⓘ
linked to:
Tausug
|
| family |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| geographicDistribution |
Sulu Archipelago
ⓘ
coastal Borneo ⓘ coastal areas of Mindanao ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Central Sama
ⓘ
Mapun ⓘ Pangutaran Sama ⓘ Sibutu Sama ⓘ Southern Sama ⓘ Yakan ⓘ |
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom |
Arabic
ⓘ
Cebuano ⓘ
linked to:
Cebuano language
Malay ⓘ Tagalog ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
focus system on verbs
ⓘ
voice-marking verbal morphology typical of Philippine-type languages ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length in some dialects
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory including glottal stop ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature | use of prepositions rather than postpositions ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code |
sjm (for Mapun)
ⓘ
smd (for Central Sama) ⓘ ssb (for Southern Sama) ⓘ sse (for Balangingi Sama) ⓘ yka (for Yakan) ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
Sama–Bajaw languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Sama–Bajaw languages subgroup
|
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| region |
Sabah, Malaysia
ⓘ
linked to:
Sabah
eastern Indonesia ⓘ eastern Malaysia ⓘ
linked to:
East Malaysia
southern Philippines ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Bajau people
ⓘ
linked to:
Sama-Bajau peoples
Sama people ⓘ Sama-Bajau people ⓘ
linked to:
Sama-Bajau peoples
|
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Malaysia ⓘ Philippines ⓘ |
| status | regional language ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| typology | predominantly agglutinative ⓘ |
| usedBy | sea-nomadic communities ⓘ |
| usedIn | everyday communication among Sama-Bajau communities ⓘ |
| wordOrder |
verb–object–subject (VOS)
ⓘ
verb–subject–object (VSO) ⓘ |
| 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: Sama Description of subject: Sama is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sama-Bajau people of the southern Philippines and parts of Malaysia and Indonesia.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sama