Kalao language
E166155
The Kalao language is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kalao language canonical | 2 |
| Bahasa Kalao | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1322784 — 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: Kalao language Context triple: [South Sulawesi languages, hasSubgroup, Kalao language]
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A.
Hanunoo language
The Hanunoo language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Hanunoo Mangyan people of Mindoro in the Philippines, notable for its indigenous syllabic script and rich oral poetic tradition.
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B.
Balangao language
The Balangao language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Balangao people in the Mountain Province of the northern Philippines.
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C.
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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D.
Kankanaey language
The Kankanaey language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kankanaey people of the northern Philippines, particularly in the Cordillera region of Luzon.
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E.
Kalinga language
The Kalinga language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalinga people in the northern Cordillera region of Luzon in the Philippines.
- 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: Kalao language Target entity description: The Kalao language is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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A.
Hanunoo language
The Hanunoo language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Hanunoo Mangyan people of Mindoro in the Philippines, notable for its indigenous syllabic script and rich oral poetic tradition.
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B.
Balangao language
The Balangao language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Balangao people in the Mountain Province of the northern Philippines.
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C.
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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D.
Kankanaey language
The Kankanaey language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kankanaey people of the northern Philippines, particularly in the Cordillera region of Luzon.
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E.
Kalinga language
The Kalinga language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalinga people in the northern Cordillera region of Luzon in the Philippines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| documentedIn | linguistic surveys of South Sulawesi ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Kalao people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Bahasa Kalao
ⓘ
linked to:
Kalao language
Kalao ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | kala1405 ⓘ |
| hasMorphology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasPhonology | contrastive vowel length (reported) ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerNumber | small number of speakers ⓘ |
| hasTypology | SVO word order ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | kly ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageFamilyBranch | Celebic languages (proposed) ⓘ |
| languageStatus | minority language ⓘ |
| location | Kalao Island, South Sulawesi ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguages | Selayar languages ⓘ |
| partOf |
South Sulawesi linguistic area
ⓘ
linked to:
Sulawesi linguistic area
|
| region |
Sulawesi
ⓘ
linked to:
Celebes
|
| riskFactor | language shift to Indonesian ⓘ |
| spokenBy | small community ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
South Sulawesi ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ |
| usedIn |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ |
| 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: Kalao language Description of subject: The Kalao language is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kalao language