Toba Batak language
E119353
Toba Batak language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Toba Batak people of North Sumatra, Indonesia, known for its rich oral tradition and distinctive Batak script.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toba Batak language canonical | 11 |
| Batak Toba language | 4 |
| Balige dialect | 1 |
| Samosir dialect | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1019146 — 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: Toba Batak language Context triple: [Batak, hasLanguage, Toba Batak language]
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A.
Minahasan languages
Minahasan languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken by the Minahasan people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Timor–Babar languages
The Timor–Babar languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily on Timor and nearby islands in eastern Indonesia, noted for their complex phonologies and diverse grammatical structures.
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C.
Flores–Lembata languages
The Flores–Lembata languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken on the islands of Flores and Lembata in eastern Indonesia, known for their distinctive phonological and grammatical features within the region.
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D.
Gorontalo–Mongondow languages
The Gorontalo–Mongondow languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
Nicobarese languages
The Nicobarese languages are a group of Austroasiatic languages spoken by the indigenous Nicobarese people of India’s Nicobar Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean.
- 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: Toba Batak language Target entity description: Toba Batak language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Toba Batak people of North Sumatra, Indonesia, known for its rich oral tradition and distinctive Batak script.
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A.
Minahasan languages
Minahasan languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken by the Minahasan people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Timor–Babar languages
The Timor–Babar languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily on Timor and nearby islands in eastern Indonesia, noted for their complex phonologies and diverse grammatical structures.
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C.
Flores–Lembata languages
The Flores–Lembata languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken on the islands of Flores and Lembata in eastern Indonesia, known for their distinctive phonological and grammatical features within the region.
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D.
Gorontalo–Mongondow languages
The Gorontalo–Mongondow languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
Nicobarese languages
The Nicobarese languages are a group of Austroasiatic languages spoken by the indigenous Nicobarese people of India’s Nicobar Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Batak language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Angkola Batak language
ⓘ
linked to:
Angkola language
Karo Batak language ⓘ Mandailing Batak language ⓘ Simalungun Batak language ⓘ
linked to:
Simalungun language
|
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vigorous (but under pressure from Indonesian) ⓘ |
| glottocode | bata1289 ⓘ |
| hasAffixType |
infixes
ⓘ
prefixes ⓘ simulfixes ⓘ suffixes ⓘ |
| hasAlignmentType | Philippine-type voice system ⓘ |
| hasDigitalPresence | Unicode support for Batak script ⓘ |
| hasEthnologueEntry | Toba Batak ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalCategory |
aspect
ⓘ
focus ⓘ mood ⓘ voice ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryForm |
folktales
ⓘ
ritual chants ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
Arabic language
ⓘ
linked to:
Arabic
Dutch language ⓘ Indonesian language ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasOralTradition | rich oral literature ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | contrastive vowel length (in some analyses) ⓘ |
| hasScriptType | abugida ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder |
subject–verb–object (SVO)
ⓘ
verb–subject–object (VSO) ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | bbc ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| region |
Lake Toba region
ⓘ
linked to:
Toba Highlands
Tapanuli ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Toba Batak people
ⓘ
linked to:
Batak
|
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
North Sumatra ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| subgroup |
Batak languages
ⓘ
Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands languages ⓘ
linked to:
Batak languages
|
| usedIn |
church services
ⓘ
daily communication ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| usedInEducationLevel | primary education (locally, to some extent) ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Batak script
ⓘ
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: Toba Batak language Description of subject: Toba Batak language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Toba Batak people of North Sumatra, Indonesia, known for its rich oral tradition and distinctive Batak script.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Toba Batak language