Sumbawa language
E164781
The Sumbawa language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, known for its place within the Bima–Sumba subgroup and its distinct phonological and grammatical features.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sumbawa language canonical | 16 |
| Bahasa Sumbawa | 3 |
| Dompu language | 1 |
| Sumbawa languages | 1 |
| Sumbawanese language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1416051 — 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: Sumbawa language Context triple: [Bima–Sumba languages, hasMemberLanguage, Sumbawa language]
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A.
Bima–Sumba languages
The Bima–Sumba languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily on the islands of Sumbawa and Sumba in eastern Indonesia.
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B.
Bima language
Bima language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, known for its distinct grammar and vocabulary within the region.
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C.
Tanimbar languages
The Tanimbar languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Tanimbar Islands of eastern Indonesia.
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D.
Ketagalan language
The Ketagalan language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Ketagalan people in northern Taiwan, traditionally classified among the Formosan languages.
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E.
Flores–Lembata languages
The Flores–Lembata languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken on the islands of Flores and Lembata in eastern Indonesia, known for their distinctive phonological and grammatical features within the region.
- 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: Sumbawa language Target entity description: The Sumbawa language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, known for its place within the Bima–Sumba subgroup and its distinct phonological and grammatical features.
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A.
Bima–Sumba languages
The Bima–Sumba languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily on the islands of Sumbawa and Sumba in eastern Indonesia.
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B.
Bima language
Bima language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, known for its distinct grammar and vocabulary within the region.
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C.
Tanimbar languages
The Tanimbar languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Tanimbar Islands of eastern Indonesia.
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D.
Ketagalan language
The Ketagalan language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Ketagalan people in northern Taiwan, traditionally classified among the Formosan languages.
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E.
Flores–Lembata languages
The Flores–Lembata languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken on the islands of Flores and Lembata in eastern Indonesia, known for their distinctive phonological and grammatical features within the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| coexistsWithLanguage |
Bimanese language
ⓘ
Indonesian language ⓘ Sasak language ⓘ
linked to:
Basa Sasak
|
| hasAlternateName |
Bahasa Samawa
ⓘ
Bahasa Sumbawa ⓘ
linked to:
Sumbawa language
Samawa ⓘ Sumbawa Besar ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
daily communication
ⓘ
local ceremonies ⓘ oral literature ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | sumb1242 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Sumbawa ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
aspect and mood marked by particles
ⓘ
no grammatical gender ⓘ numeral classifiers limited or absent ⓘ reduplication for derivation and plurality ⓘ use of clitics for pronominal marking ⓘ verb–initial word order tendencies ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | smw ⓘ |
| hasNeighborLanguage |
Bimanese language
ⓘ
Dompu language ⓘ Manggarai language ⓘ Sasak language ⓘ
linked to:
Basa Sasak
|
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length not phonemic
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prenasalized stops ⓘ simple vowel inventory ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
| isEndangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| isNotSameAs |
Bimanese language
ⓘ
Sasak language ⓘ
linked to:
Basa Sasak
|
| isSubjectOf |
comparative Austronesian research
ⓘ
descriptive grammars ⓘ phonological studies ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| region | western and central parts of Sumbawa Island ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Sumbawa Island ⓘ
linked to:
Sumbawa
West Nusa Tenggara ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Bima–Sumba languages ⓘ Central Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| usedByEthnicGroup |
Samawa people
ⓘ
Sumbawa people ⓘ |
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: Sumbawa language Description of subject: The Sumbawa language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, known for its place within the Bima–Sumba subgroup and its distinct phonological and grammatical features.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sumbawa language
linked to: Sumbawa language
linked to: Sumbawa language
linked to: Sumbawa language
linked to: Sumbawa language
linked to: Sumbawa language