Uab Meto
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Uab Meto is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Atoni (Dawan) people of West Timor in Indonesia.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9577593 — 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: Uab Meto Context triple: [Dawan language, alternativeName, Uab Meto]
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A.
Uahibre
Uahibre, better known by the Greek name Apries, was a pharaoh of Egypt’s 26th Dynasty who ruled in the early 6th century BCE and is noted for his foreign campaigns and eventual overthrow.
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B.
Mineta
Mineta is a Japanese surname most prominently associated with Norman Mineta, a longtime U.S. politician and former Secretary of Transportation.
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C.
Avul
Avul is a given name most notably associated with Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, the former President of India and renowned aerospace scientist.
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D.
Kurt Uenala
Kurt Uenala is a Swiss-born music producer and electronic musician known for his collaborations with prominent artists in alternative and electronic music, including work with Depeche Mode and Dave Gahan.
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E.
Ualamo
Ualamo is an alternative name for Wolaytta, an Omotic language spoken primarily in southwestern Ethiopia.
- 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: Uab Meto Target entity description: Uab Meto is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Atoni (Dawan) people of West Timor in Indonesia.
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A.
Uahibre
Uahibre, better known by the Greek name Apries, was a pharaoh of Egypt’s 26th Dynasty who ruled in the early 6th century BCE and is noted for his foreign campaigns and eventual overthrow.
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B.
Mineta
Mineta is a Japanese surname most prominently associated with Norman Mineta, a longtime U.S. politician and former Secretary of Transportation.
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C.
Avul
Avul is a given name most notably associated with Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, the former President of India and renowned aerospace scientist.
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D.
Kurt Uenala
Kurt Uenala is a Swiss-born music producer and electronic musician known for his collaborations with prominent artists in alternative and electronic music, including work with Depeche Mode and Dave Gahan.
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E.
Ualamo
Ualamo is an alternative name for Wolaytta, an Omotic language spoken primarily in southwestern Ethiopia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Dawan
ⓘ
Dawanese ⓘ Timorese Dawan ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Helong language
ⓘ
Tetun language ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupAssociated | Atoni of Timor ⓘ |
| glottocode | dawa1253 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeSpelling |
Uab Meto’
ⓘ
linked to:
Uab Meto
|
| hasDialect |
Amfoan
ⓘ
Baikeno ⓘ Kotos Amarasi ⓘ Miomafo ⓘ Mollo ⓘ South Central Timor dialects ⓘ |
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom |
Indonesian
ⓘ
Portuguese (loanwords) ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | moderately agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
ⓘ
simple consonant inventory typical of Timoric languages ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO (subject–verb–object) dominant order ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | aoz ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Timoric languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| languageSubfamily |
Malayo-Polynesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Malayo-Polynesian languages
|
| linguisticArea | Timor–Alor–Pantar area ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | dry language (in contrast to coastal languages) ⓘ |
| primaryStatusInRegion | major indigenous language of West Timor ⓘ |
| region |
East Nusa Tenggara
ⓘ
Timor Island ⓘ
linked to:
Timor
|
| scriptUsage | primarily written in Latin alphabet for religious and educational materials ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Atoni people
ⓘ
Dawan people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
West Timor ⓘ
linked to:
Timor (western part)
|
| usedAlongside | Indonesian language ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ traditional rituals ⓘ |
| usedIn | local churches in West Timor ⓘ |
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: Uab Meto Description of subject: Uab Meto is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Atoni (Dawan) people of West Timor in Indonesia.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Uab Meto