Lengo language
E162602
The Lengo language is an Oceanic language spoken on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, known for its place within the Southeast Solomonic subgroup.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lengo | 3 |
| Lengo language canonical | 2 |
| Ethnologue: Lengo (lgr) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1386027 — 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: Lengo language Context triple: [Southeast Solomonic languages, hasMember, Lengo language]
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A.
Kalanguya language
The Kalanguya language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalanguya people in the northern Luzon highlands of the Philippines.
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B.
Lelemi language
The Lelemi language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Lelemi people in eastern Ghana.
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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.
Lemolang language
Lemolang is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
Hoanya language
The Hoanya language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Hoanya people of western Taiwan and classified among the indigenous Formosan languages.
- 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: Lengo language Target entity description: The Lengo language is an Oceanic language spoken on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, known for its place within the Southeast Solomonic subgroup.
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A.
Kalanguya language
The Kalanguya language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalanguya people in the northern Luzon highlands of the Philippines.
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B.
Lelemi language
The Lelemi language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Lelemi people in eastern Ghana.
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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.
Lemolang language
Lemolang is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
Hoanya language
The Hoanya language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Hoanya people of western Taiwan and classified among the indigenous Formosan languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Oceanic language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Melanesian languages (geographical grouping)
ⓘ
linked to:
Meso-Melanesian languages
|
| broaderLanguageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian ⓘ
linked to:
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Oceanic ⓘ Southeast Solomonic ⓘ
linked to:
Southeast Solomonic languages
|
| continent | Australia and Oceania ⓘ |
| country | Solomon Islands ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable (approximate) ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | north-central and northeastern Guadalcanal ⓘ |
| glottocode | leng1264 ⓘ |
| glottologName |
Lengo
ⓘ
linked to:
Lengo language
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Lengo (Solomon Islands)
ⓘ
Lengoʼ ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
local communication on Guadalcanal
ⓘ
traditional cultural practices on Guadalcanal ⓘ |
| hasEthnologueEntry |
Ethnologue: Lengo (lgr)
ⓘ
linked to:
Lengo language
|
| hasISO639-3Code | lgr ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticProperty |
Austronesian-style pronominal system
ⓘ
complex verbal morphology (relative to neighboring languages) ⓘ phonology typical of Southeast Solomonic languages ⓘ |
| hasResearch | described in Oceanic linguistics literature ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity | rural communities on Guadalcanal ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Guadalcanal linguistic area
ⓘ
Southeast Solomonic subgroup ⓘ
linked to:
Southeast Solomonic languages
|
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Oceanic languages ⓘ Southeast Solomonic languages ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Birao language
ⓘ
Ghari language ⓘ Malango language ⓘ
linked to:
Mangseng language
Talise language ⓘ |
| region |
Central Solomon Islands
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Province, Solomon Islands
Guadalcanal ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Guadalcanal
ⓘ
Oceania ⓘ Solomon Islands ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian language
ⓘ
Central–Eastern Oceanic language ⓘ Eastern Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Southeast Solomonic language ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature | verb–subject–object basic word order (VSO) (approximate) ⓘ |
| usedBy | Lengo 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: Lengo language Description of subject: The Lengo language is an Oceanic language spoken on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, known for its place within the Southeast Solomonic subgroup.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lengo language
linked to: Lengo language
linked to: Lengo language
linked to: Lengo language