Laiyolo language
E135948
The Laiyolo language is an Austronesian language spoken in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the broader Celebic subgroup.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Laiyolo language canonical | 16 |
| Laiyolo language continuum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1199521 — 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: Laiyolo language Context triple: [Celebic languages, hasMember, Laiyolo language]
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A.
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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B.
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.
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C.
Tsonga language
The Tsonga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Africa, especially in Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe.
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D.
Luri language
Luri language is a Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Lur people in western and southwestern Iran.
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E.
Kiliwa language
The Kiliwa language is an endangered indigenous language spoken by the Kiliwa people of northern Baja California, Mexico, known for its highly complex verbal morphology and status as one of the last surviving isolates within the Yuman linguistic area.
- 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: Laiyolo language Target entity description: The Laiyolo language is an Austronesian language spoken in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the broader Celebic subgroup.
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A.
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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B.
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.
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C.
Tsonga language
The Tsonga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Africa, especially in Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe.
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D.
Luri language
Luri language is a Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Lur people in western and southwestern Iran.
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E.
Kiliwa language
The Kiliwa language is an endangered indigenous language spoken by the Kiliwa people of northern Baja California, Mexico, known for its highly complex verbal morphology and status as one of the last surviving isolates within the Yuman linguistic area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Celebic language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Austronesian language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | southern part of South Sulawesi ⓘ |
| glottocode | laiy1237 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Laiyolo ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Laiolo
ⓘ
Laiyoloq ⓘ
linked to:
Laiyolo
Laiyolo’ ⓘ
linked to:
Laiyolo
|
| hasDialects | Barang-Barang dialect ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
focus-like voice system
ⓘ
rich verbal affixation ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
Bugis language
ⓘ
linked to:
Buginese language
Indonesian language ⓘ Makassarese language ⓘ
linked to:
Makassarese
|
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Bugis language
ⓘ
linked to:
Buginese language
Konjo language ⓘ Makassarese language ⓘ
linked to:
Makassarese
|
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (limited)
ⓘ
prenasalized stops ⓘ |
| intergenerationalTransmission | partially maintained ⓘ |
| isDocumentedIn |
descriptive grammars
ⓘ
wordlists ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | lji ⓘ |
| isSpokenBy | Laiyolo people ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | Austronesian comparative linguistics ⓘ |
| isTaughtInformallyIn | family settings ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
Malayo-Polynesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Malayo-Polynesian languages
|
| languageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| languageSubgroup | Celebic ⓘ |
| lexifierOrSource |
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language
|
| partOf | South Sulawesi languages ⓘ |
| region | South Sulawesi ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
South Sulawesi ⓘ |
| spokenNear | Selayar Islands ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Celebic languages ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
SVO basic word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ |
| usedAlongside | Indonesian language ⓘ |
| usedIn | everyday communication ⓘ |
| 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: Laiyolo language Description of subject: The Laiyolo language is an Austronesian language spoken in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the broader Celebic subgroup.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Laiyolo language