Magindanawn
E138033
Magindanawn is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maguindanaon people of Mindanao in the southern Philippines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Magindanawn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1204649 — 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: Magindanawn Context triple: [Greater Central Philippine languages, hasMember, Magindanawn]
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A.
Minginish
Minginish is a rugged peninsula on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, known for its dramatic coastal scenery and proximity to the Cuillin mountains.
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B.
Madugandí
Madugandí is an indigenous comarca (autonomous territory) in Panama inhabited primarily by the Guna (Kuna) people.
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C.
Mamanguape
Mamanguape is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Paraíba, known for its historical colonial architecture and location near the Mamanguape River on the state’s northern coast.
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D.
Gwarinpa
Gwarinpa is a large, planned residential district in Abuja, Nigeria, known for its extensive housing estates and relatively well-organized urban layout.
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E.
Mangina
Mangina is a town in North Kivu Province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that gained international attention as a focal point of the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic.
- 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: Magindanawn Target entity description: Magindanawn is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maguindanaon people of Mindanao in the southern Philippines.
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A.
Minginish
Minginish is a rugged peninsula on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, known for its dramatic coastal scenery and proximity to the Cuillin mountains.
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B.
Madugandí
Madugandí is an indigenous comarca (autonomous territory) in Panama inhabited primarily by the Guna (Kuna) people.
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C.
Mamanguape
Mamanguape is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Paraíba, known for its historical colonial architecture and location near the Mamanguape River on the state’s northern coast.
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D.
Gwarinpa
Gwarinpa is a large, planned residential district in Abuja, Nigeria, known for its extensive housing estates and relatively well-organized urban layout.
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E.
Mangina
Mangina is a town in North Kivu Province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that gained international attention as a focal point of the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Philippine language ⓘ |
| belongsToEthnicGroup | Maguindanaon people ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Iranun language
ⓘ
Maranao language ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| glottocode | magu1242 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Magindanaon
ⓘ
linked to:
Maguindanaon language
Maguindanao language ⓘ
linked to:
Maguindanaon language
Maguindanaon ⓘ |
| hasBasicWordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ verb–initial ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Tau-sa Ilud dialect
ⓘ
linked to:
Tau-sa Laya dialect
Tau-sa Laya dialect ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
Austronesian alignment
ⓘ
focus/voice system ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
Arabic
ⓘ
Cebuano ⓘ
linked to:
Cebuano language
Malay ⓘ Tagalog ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory typical of Philippine languages ⓘ |
| hasReligionAssociated | Islam ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Arabic script
ⓘ
linked to:
Arabic alphabet
Latin script ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
| historicallyWrittenWith | Jawi script ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | mdh ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ Philippine languages ⓘ |
| region |
Cotabato Province
ⓘ
linked to:
Cotabato
Davao Region ⓘ Maguindanao del Norte ⓘ
linked to:
Maguindanao
Maguindanao del Sur ⓘ
linked to:
Maguindanao
South Cotabato Province ⓘ
linked to:
South Cotabato
Sultan Kudarat Province ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Maguindanaon people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
ⓘ
Mindanao ⓘ Philippines ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Greater Central Philippine languages ⓘ |
| usedAs | vernacular language in Maguindanao region ⓘ |
| usedIn | Islamic religious practices in Mindanao ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | local schools in parts of Mindanao (as auxiliary language) ⓘ |
| usedInMedia | local radio in Maguindanao region ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
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: Magindanawn Description of subject: Magindanawn is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maguindanaon people of Mindanao in the southern Philippines.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.