Saluan language
E135945
The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saluan language canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1199517 — 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: Saluan language Context triple: [Celebic languages, hasMember, Saluan language]
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A.
Sabine language
The Sabine language was an extinct Italic tongue once spoken by the ancient Sabine people of central Italy, closely related to other Osco-Umbrian languages.
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B.
Esselen language
The Esselen language is an extinct and poorly documented Native American language once spoken by the Esselen people of coastal central California.
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C.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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D.
Fala language
Fala is a small Ibero-Romance language spoken in a few villages in Spain’s Extremadura region, notable for its close relation to Galician-Portuguese and its strong local identity.
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E.
Refaluwasch language
The Refaluwasch language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Carolinian people of the Northern Mariana Islands, particularly on Saipan and nearby islands.
- 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: Saluan language Target entity description: The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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A.
Sabine language
The Sabine language was an extinct Italic tongue once spoken by the ancient Sabine people of central Italy, closely related to other Osco-Umbrian languages.
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B.
Esselen language
The Esselen language is an extinct and poorly documented Native American language once spoken by the Esselen people of coastal central California.
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C.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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D.
Fala language
Fala is a small Ibero-Romance language spoken in a few villages in Spain’s Extremadura region, notable for its close relation to Galician-Portuguese and its strong local identity.
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E.
Refaluwasch language
The Refaluwasch language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Carolinian people of the Northern Mariana Islands, particularly on Saipan and nearby islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Saluan–Banggai subgroup
ⓘ
linked to:
Saluan–Banggai languages
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Saluan people ⓘ |
| family | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| glottologName | Saluan ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Balantak
ⓘ
Batui ⓘ Loinang ⓘ Luwuk ⓘ |
| hasContactLanguage | Indonesian language ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Coastal Saluan dialect
ⓘ
Interior Saluan dialect ⓘ Loinang dialect ⓘ |
| hasDomain | daily communication among Saluan people ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | salu1253 ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticClassification | Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Celebic > Saluan–Banggai ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (reported in some analyses)
ⓘ
prenasalized stops (reported) ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation | bilingualism with Indonesian is common ⓘ |
| isEndangeredStatus | vulnerable (approximate assessment) ⓘ |
| isInfluencedBy | Indonesian language ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | loe ⓘ |
| isSpokenBy | tens of thousands of speakers (approximate) ⓘ |
| languageFamilyBranch |
Celebic languages
ⓘ
Saluan–Banggai languages ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Sulawesi linguistic area ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Gulf of Tomini ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
island of Sulawesi
ⓘ
linked to:
Sulawesi region
|
| macroarea | Papunesia ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Balantak language
ⓘ
Banggai language ⓘ Tomini languages ⓘ |
| region |
central Sulawesi
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Sulawesi
eastern Sulawesi ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Central Sulawesi
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ Sulawesi ⓘ
linked to:
Celebes
eastern Sulawesi ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature | verb–initial tendencies ⓘ |
| usedBy | Saluan ethnic group ⓘ |
| wordOrder | flexible word order ⓘ |
| 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: Saluan language Description of subject: The Saluan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people of central and eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.