Sasak
E119554
Sasak is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Sasak people on the Indonesian island of Lombok.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sasak canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1027276 — 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: Sasak Context triple: [Bali, localLanguage, Sasak]
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A.
Sumbawa
Sumbawa is an island in central Indonesia, part of the Lesser Sunda Islands, known for its volcanic landscapes, surfing spots, and relatively low population density compared to neighboring Bali and Lombok.
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B.
Bantia
Bantia was an ancient Oscan-speaking city in southern Italy, notable for yielding important inscriptions that illuminate the Oscan language and Italic legal traditions.
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C.
Kuta Lombok
Kuta Lombok is a coastal town on the Indonesian island of Lombok known for its scenic white-sand beaches, surf breaks, and laid-back tourism atmosphere.
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D.
Sumba
Sumba is a rugged island in eastern Indonesia known for its traditional Marapu culture, megalithic tombs, and distinctive ikat textiles.
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E.
Ranggawuni
Ranggawuni was a 13th-century Javanese king of the Singhasari Kingdom, known for consolidating royal power and laying groundwork for the rise of later Javanese empires.
- 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: Sasak Target entity description: Sasak is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Sasak people on the Indonesian island of Lombok.
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A.
Sumbawa
Sumbawa is an island in central Indonesia, part of the Lesser Sunda Islands, known for its volcanic landscapes, surfing spots, and relatively low population density compared to neighboring Bali and Lombok.
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B.
Bantia
Bantia was an ancient Oscan-speaking city in southern Italy, notable for yielding important inscriptions that illuminate the Oscan language and Italic legal traditions.
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C.
Kuta Lombok
Kuta Lombok is a coastal town on the Indonesian island of Lombok known for its scenic white-sand beaches, surf breaks, and laid-back tourism atmosphere.
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D.
Sumba
Sumba is a rugged island in eastern Indonesia known for its traditional Marapu culture, megalithic tombs, and distinctive ikat textiles.
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E.
Ranggawuni
Ranggawuni was a 13th-century Javanese king of the Singhasari Kingdom, known for consolidating royal power and laying groundwork for the rise of later Javanese empires.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Papunesia ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Bima language
ⓘ
Samawa language ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupAssociated | Sasak people ⓘ |
| family | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| glottocode | sasa1249 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Bahasa Sasak
ⓘ
linked to:
Basa Sasak
Basa Sasak ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Kuto-Kute
ⓘ
Meno-Mene ⓘ Mriak-Mriku ⓘ Ngeno-Ngene ⓘ Ngeto-Ngete ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
prenasalized stops ⓘ |
| hasScriptStatus | Latin script dominant in contemporary use ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticFeature | dialect-based social identity ⓘ |
| historicalScriptUse |
Arabic-based script for religious texts
ⓘ
Javanese-derived script for traditional manuscripts ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | sas ⓘ |
| languageFamilyBranch |
Sasak–Samawa languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Sasak language group
|
| languageStatus | regional language ⓘ |
| lexifierInfluence |
Balinese
ⓘ
Indonesian ⓘ Javanese ⓘ |
| primaryIsland | Lombok ⓘ |
| region | West Nusa Tenggara ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Sasak people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Lombok ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| usedAs | home language on Lombok ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local religious practices
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ traditional Sasak literature ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Arabic script
ⓘ
Javanese 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: Sasak Description of subject: Sasak is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Sasak people on the Indonesian island of Lombok.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.