Uma language
E135946
Uma is an Austronesian language of the Celebic subgroup spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Uma language canonical | 1 |
| Uma’ Jalan language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1199519 — 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: Uma language Context triple: [Celebic languages, hasMember, Uma language]
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A.
Unami language
The Unami language is an Eastern Algonquian Native American language traditionally spoken by the Lenape (Delaware) people in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
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B.
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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C.
Taman languages
Taman languages are a small group of closely related Nilo-Saharan languages spoken primarily in eastern Chad and western Sudan.
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D.
Nupe language
The Nupe language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Nupe people in central Nigeria, especially in the Middle Belt region.
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E.
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.
- 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: Uma language Target entity description: Uma is an Austronesian language of the Celebic subgroup spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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A.
Unami language
The Unami language is an Eastern Algonquian Native American language traditionally spoken by the Lenape (Delaware) people in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
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B.
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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C.
Taman languages
Taman languages are a small group of closely related Nilo-Saharan languages spoken primarily in eastern Chad and western Sudan.
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D.
Nupe language
The Nupe language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Nupe people in central Nigeria, especially in the Middle Belt region.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Koro Uma
ⓘ
Pipikoro ⓘ Pipikoro Uma ⓘ
linked to:
Pipikoro
Tawailia ⓘ Tawailia Uma ⓘ Tawailia-Pipikoro ⓘ
linked to:
Tawailia
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable (approximate) ⓘ |
| family |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| glottologCode | umaa1241 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Uma ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Bajo Uma
ⓘ
Balesang ⓘ Kantewu ⓘ Northern Uma ⓘ Southern Uma ⓘ Tobaku ⓘ Tori’untu ⓘ Winatu ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
affixation for voice and valency
ⓘ
focus-like verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (in some dialects)
ⓘ
prenasalized stops ⓘ |
| hasResearch |
descriptive grammar studies
ⓘ
dictionary and wordlists ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | ppk ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Celebic subgroup of Austronesian ⓘ |
| languageStatus | living language ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Sulawesi linguistic area ⓘ |
| region |
Sulawesi
ⓘ
linked to:
Celebes
|
| spokenBy |
Uma people
ⓘ
linked to:
Muna people
|
| spokenIn |
Central Sulawesi
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Celebic languages ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local cultural practices
ⓘ
oral communication ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| 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: Uma language Description of subject: Uma is an Austronesian language of the Celebic subgroup spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Uma language