Mandar language
E152161
Mandar is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Mandar people along the western coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mandar language canonical | 28 |
| Basa Mandar | 1 |
| Mandarese | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1322769 — 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: Mandar language Context triple: [South Sulawesi languages, hasSubgroup, Mandar language]
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A.
Maban languages
Maban languages are a small group of closely related Nilo-Saharan languages spoken primarily in eastern Chad and western Sudan.
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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.
Gondi language
The Gondi language is a Dravidian language spoken by the indigenous Gond people of central India, written in multiple scripts including Telugu and Devanagari.
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D.
Lambadi language
The Lambadi language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Banjara (Lambadi) community in parts of India.
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E.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
- 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: Mandar language Target entity description: Mandar is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Mandar people along the western coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia.
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A.
Maban languages
Maban languages are a small group of closely related Nilo-Saharan languages spoken primarily in eastern Chad and western Sudan.
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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.
Gondi language
The Gondi language is a Dravidian language spoken by the indigenous Gond people of central India, written in multiple scripts including Telugu and Devanagari.
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D.
Lambadi language
The Lambadi language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Banjara (Lambadi) community in parts of India.
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E.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Mandar coastal communities
ⓘ
Mandar maritime trading culture ⓘ |
| classificationAuthority |
Ethnologue
ⓘ
Glottolog ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Bugis language
ⓘ
linked to:
Buginese language
Makassarese language ⓘ
linked to:
Makassarese
Toraja-Saʼdan language ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mandar people ⓘ |
| glottocode | mand1419 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Basa Mandar
ⓘ
linked to:
Mandar language
Mandarese ⓘ
linked to:
Mandar language
|
| hasDialect |
Balanipa dialect
ⓘ
Mamuju-area Mandar dialects ⓘ Pamboang dialect ⓘ
linked to:
Balanipa dialect
Sendana dialect ⓘ Tappalang dialect ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
affixation for voice and valency
ⓘ
pronominal clitics ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Bugis language
ⓘ
linked to:
Buginese language
Makassarese language ⓘ
linked to:
Makassarese
Mamuju language ⓘ Pitu Ulunna Salu languages ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length not phonemic
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory typical of South Sulawesi languages ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature | basic word order SVO with variations ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | mdr ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | South Sulawesi linguistic area ⓘ |
| partOf |
South Sulawesi subgroup of Malayo-Polynesian
ⓘ
linked to:
South Sulawesi languages
|
| primaryUsageDomain | home and community domains ⓘ |
| region |
Sulawesi Barat (West Sulawesi Province)
ⓘ
linked to:
West Sulawesi
western coast of Sulawesi ⓘ |
| shiftPressureFrom | Indonesian language ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Mandar people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Sulawesi ⓘ
linked to:
Celebes
West Sulawesi ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | South Sulawesi languages ⓘ |
| usedAlongside | Indonesian language ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication among Mandar people ⓘ |
| usedIn |
traditional Mandar oral literature
ⓘ
traditional songs and poetry of Mandar people ⓘ |
| 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: Mandar language Description of subject: Mandar is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Mandar people along the western coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mandar language
linked to: Mandar language