Bontoc language
E1010240
The Bontoc language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bontoc people of the Mountain Province in the northern Philippines.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bontoc language canonical | 5 |
| Eastern Bontoc | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12953267 — 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: Bontoc language Context triple: [Bontoc people, language, Bontoc language]
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A.
Butuanon language
The Butuanon language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in and around Butuan City in Mindanao, Philippines.
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B.
Balangao language
The Balangao language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Balangao people in the Mountain Province of the northern Philippines.
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C.
Maranao language
The Maranao language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Maranao people around Lake Lanao in Mindanao, Philippines.
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D.
Ivatan language
Ivatan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Ivatan people of the Batanes Islands in the northern Philippines, noted for its distinct phonology and vocabulary shaped by the islands’ harsh, typhoon-prone environment.
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E.
Kalagan language
The Kalagan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalagan people of Mindanao in the southern Philippines, particularly in areas such as Sarangani.
- 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: Bontoc language Target entity description: The Bontoc language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bontoc people of the Mountain Province in the northern Philippines.
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A.
Butuanon language
The Butuanon language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in and around Butuan City in Mindanao, Philippines.
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B.
Balangao language
The Balangao language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Balangao people in the Mountain Province of the northern Philippines.
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C.
Maranao language
The Maranao language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Maranao people around Lake Lanao in Mindanao, Philippines.
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D.
Ivatan language
Ivatan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Ivatan people of the Batanes Islands in the northern Philippines, noted for its distinct phonology and vocabulary shaped by the islands’ harsh, typhoon-prone environment.
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E.
Kalagan language
The Kalagan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalagan people of Mindanao in the southern Philippines, particularly in areas such as Sarangani.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Philippine language ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Bontoc people ⓘ |
| glottocode | bont1248 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Bontoc Igorot
ⓘ
linked to:
Bontoc people
Bontok ⓘ
linked to:
Central Bontok
Finallig ⓘ |
| hasBasicWordOrder | verb–subject–object ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Central Bontoc
ⓘ
linked to:
Bontoc
Eastern Bontoc ⓘ
linked to:
Bontoc language
Northern Bontoc ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Bontok
Southern Bontoc ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Bontok
Southwestern Bontoc ⓘ
linked to:
Bontoc
|
| hasDomain |
indigenous knowledge
ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ traditional law ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticDescription | documented in grammars and dictionaries ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNeighborLanguage |
Ifugao languages
ⓘ
Ilocano language ⓘ Kankanaey language ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive stress
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasResourceType |
Bible translations
ⓘ
folk tale collections ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Filipino language
ⓘ
Ilocano language ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | bnc ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Cordilleran language group
ⓘ
linked to:
Cordilleran languages
|
| isTaughtIn | local community schools ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ Northern Luzon languages ⓘ |
| region |
Cordillera Administrative Region
ⓘ
Northern Philippines ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Bontoc people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Luzon
ⓘ
Mountain Province ⓘ Philippines ⓘ |
| subgroupOf |
Cordilleran languages
ⓘ
South-Central Cordilleran languages ⓘ
linked to:
Cordilleran languages
|
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ traditional rituals ⓘ |
| 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: Bontoc language Description of subject: The Bontoc language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bontoc people of the Mountain Province in the northern Philippines.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bontoc language
linked to: Bontoc language