Sawu
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Sawu is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Savu (Sawu) Island in eastern Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sawu canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9577715 — 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: Sawu Context triple: [Sawunese language, glottologName, Sawu]
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A.
Watampone
Watampone is the main urban and administrative center of Bone Regency in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Kali Mata
Kali Mata is a fierce and widely revered Hindu goddess, regarded as a powerful form of the Divine Mother associated with time, destruction of evil, and spiritual liberation.
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C.
Mendanau
Mendanau is an island in Indonesia’s Bangka Belitung province, known for its coastal landscapes and role in the region’s maritime and fishing activities.
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D.
Sukoró
Sukoró is a village in Hungary’s Fejér County, known as a lakeside resort and recreational area on the northern shore of Lake Velence.
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E.
Waingapu
Waingapu is the main urban and economic center of the Indonesian island of Sumba, serving as a key hub for transportation and regional administration.
- 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: Sawu Target entity description: Sawu is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Savu (Sawu) Island in eastern Indonesia.
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A.
Watampone
Watampone is the main urban and administrative center of Bone Regency in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Kali Mata
Kali Mata is a fierce and widely revered Hindu goddess, regarded as a powerful form of the Divine Mother associated with time, destruction of evil, and spiritual liberation.
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C.
Mendanau
Mendanau is an island in Indonesia’s Bangka Belitung province, known for its coastal landscapes and role in the region’s maritime and fishing activities.
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D.
Sukoró
Sukoró is a village in Hungary’s Fejér County, known as a lakeside resort and recreational area on the northern shore of Lake Velence.
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E.
Waingapu
Waingapu is the main urban and economic center of the Indonesian island of Sumba, serving as a key hub for transportation and regional administration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Savu people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Hawu language
ⓘ
Savu language ⓘ |
| hasDialects | dialects on Savu Island ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | sawu1245 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Sawu ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | hvn ⓘ |
| hasNeighbouringLanguage |
Rote language
ⓘ
linked to:
Rote languages
Sumbanese languages ⓘ
linked to:
Sumbanese language
|
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
prenasalized stops ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
| isSpokenBy | Savu people ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| primaryRegion | Savu Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
East Nusa Tenggara
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ Savu Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Central Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ |
| usedIn |
daily communication on Savu Island
ⓘ
traditional rituals on Savu Island ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
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: Sawu Description of subject: Sawu is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Savu (Sawu) Island in eastern Indonesia.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.