Bongao Sama
E700459
Bongao Sama is a dialect of the Central Sama language spoken primarily by the Sama people in and around Bongao in the southern Philippines.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bongao Sama canonical | 1 |
| Siasi Sama | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7901159 — 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: Bongao Sama Context triple: [Central Sama, hasDialect, Bongao Sama]
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A.
Bujang Ganong
Bujang Ganong is a lively, comical warrior figure in the traditional Indonesian Reog Ponorogo dance, known for his acrobatic movements, red mask, and humorous antics.
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B.
Bongabon
Bongabon is a landlocked agricultural municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija in the Philippines, known for its onion production and mountainous terrain near the Sierra Madre range.
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C.
Mari Maseng
Mari Maseng is an American political consultant and former White House communications director who has worked on multiple Republican campaigns and administrations.
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D.
Ko Bangu
Ko Bangu is one of the smaller islands in Thailand’s Similan Islands archipelago, known for its clear waters and rich marine life that make it a popular diving and snorkeling site.
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E.
Se Kong
Se Kong is a major river in Southeast Asia that flows through Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia before joining the Mekong River.
- 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: Bongao Sama Target entity description: Bongao Sama is a dialect of the Central Sama language spoken primarily by the Sama people in and around Bongao in the southern Philippines.
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A.
Bujang Ganong
Bujang Ganong is a lively, comical warrior figure in the traditional Indonesian Reog Ponorogo dance, known for his acrobatic movements, red mask, and humorous antics.
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B.
Bongabon
Bongabon is a landlocked agricultural municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija in the Philippines, known for its onion production and mountainous terrain near the Sierra Madre range.
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C.
Mari Maseng
Mari Maseng is an American political consultant and former White House communications director who has worked on multiple Republican campaigns and administrations.
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D.
Ko Bangu
Ko Bangu is one of the smaller islands in Thailand’s Similan Islands archipelago, known for its clear waters and rich marine life that make it a popular diving and snorkeling site.
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E.
Se Kong
Se Kong is a major river in Southeast Asia that flows through Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia before joining the Mekong River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dialect
ⓘ
variety of Central Sama language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Central Sama
ⓘ
Pangutaran Sama ⓘ Siasi Sama ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Sama people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Bongao Central Sama
ⓘ
linked to:
Sama of Tawi-Tawi
Bongao variety of Central Sama ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Austronesian language
ⓘ
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Proto-Sama–Bajaw language ⓘ
linked to:
Sama–Bajaw language
|
| hasBasicWordOrder | verb–initial word order tendencies ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | predominantly agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | Austronesian-type consonant and vowel inventory ⓘ |
| isEndangeredStatus | under-described minority variety ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Sama–Bajaw languages ⓘ
linked to:
Sama–Bajaw languages subgroup
|
| linguisticArea | Sulu Archipelago ⓘ |
| partOf |
Central Sama language
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Sama dialect continuum
|
| region |
Mindanao region
ⓘ
linked to:
Mindanao
|
| spokenBy |
Sama people
ⓘ
Sama-Bajau communities around Bongao ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
ⓘ
Bongao ⓘ Tawi-Tawi Province ⓘ
linked to:
Tawi-Tawi
southern Philippines ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Central Sama language variety ⓘ |
| usedFor | everyday communication among Sama people in Bongao ⓘ |
| 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: Bongao Sama Description of subject: Bongao Sama is a dialect of the Central Sama language spoken primarily by the Sama people in and around Bongao in the southern Philippines.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bongao Sama