Pasan language
E163767
The Pasan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Minahasan people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pasan language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1431817 — 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: Pasan language Context triple: [Minahasan languages, hasLanguage, Pasan language]
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A.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
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B.
Isnag language
The Isnag language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Isnag people in the northern Cordillera region of Luzon in the Philippines.
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C.
Pamona language
The Pamona language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Pamona people of central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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D.
Pulapese language
Pulapese is an Austronesian language of the Chuukic subgroup spoken primarily on Pulap Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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E.
Sabine language
The Sabine language was an extinct Italic tongue once spoken by the ancient Sabine people of central Italy, closely related to other Osco-Umbrian 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: Pasan language Target entity description: The Pasan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Minahasan people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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A.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
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B.
Isnag language
The Isnag language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Isnag people in the northern Cordillera region of Luzon in the Philippines.
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C.
Pamona language
The Pamona language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Pamona people of central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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D.
Pulapese language
Pulapese is an Austronesian language of the Chuukic subgroup spoken primarily on Pulap Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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E.
Sabine language
The Sabine language was an extinct Italic tongue once spoken by the ancient Sabine people of central Italy, closely related to other Osco-Umbrian languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Austronesian language phylum ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Minahasan people ⓘ |
| glottologCode | tons1249 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Tonsawang ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Tonsawang
ⓘ
Tonsawang language ⓘ Toundano ⓘ Toundano language ⓘ Toundanow ⓘ Toundanow language ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Austronesian language
ⓘ
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Proto-Minahasan language ⓘ
linked to:
Minahasan languages
|
| hasLinguisticTypology |
SVO word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | contrastive vowel length (reported for Minahasan languages) ⓘ |
| hasType | vernacular language ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
| ISO639-3Code | psn ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ Minahasan languages ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Island of Sulawesi
ⓘ
linked to:
Sulawesi region
Sulawesi ⓘ
linked to:
Celebes
|
| neighboringLanguage |
Tombulu language
ⓘ
Tondano language ⓘ Tonsawang-related Minahasan languages ⓘ Tontemboan language ⓘ |
| partOf |
languages of Indonesia
ⓘ
languages of Sulawesi ⓘ |
| region | North Sulawesi ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Minahasan people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Minahasa region ⓘ
linked to:
Minahasa Peninsula
North Sulawesi ⓘ Southeastern Minahasa ⓘ
linked to:
South Minahasa Regency
|
| subclassOf |
Minahasan language
ⓘ
linked to:
Minahasan languages
|
| usedAlongside |
Indonesian language
ⓘ
Manado Malay ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ |
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: Pasan language Description of subject: The Pasan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Minahasan people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.