Sawai language
E170931
The Sawai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sawai people of eastern Indonesia, particularly in the Maluku region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sawai language canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1487542 — 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: Sawai language Context triple: [Celebic–South Halmahera languages, hasMember, Sawai language]
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A.
Tonsawang language
Tonsawang language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tonsawang people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the Minahasan subgroup.
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B.
Saisiyat language
The Saisiyat language is an indigenous Austronesian language spoken by the Saisiyat people of northwestern Taiwan.
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C.
Sakizaya language
The Sakizaya language is an indigenous Austronesian language spoken by the Sakizaya people of eastern Taiwan.
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D.
Achuar-Shiwiar language
The Achuar-Shiwiar language is a Jivaroan language spoken by the Achuar and Shiwiar Indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador and Peru.
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E.
Kawaiisu language
Kawaiisu language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Kawaiisu people of southern California.
- 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: Sawai language Target entity description: The Sawai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sawai people of eastern Indonesia, particularly in the Maluku region.
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A.
Tonsawang language
Tonsawang language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tonsawang people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the Minahasan subgroup.
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B.
Saisiyat language
The Saisiyat language is an indigenous Austronesian language spoken by the Saisiyat people of northwestern Taiwan.
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C.
Sakizaya language
The Sakizaya language is an indigenous Austronesian language spoken by the Sakizaya people of eastern Taiwan.
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D.
Achuar-Shiwiar language
The Achuar-Shiwiar language is a Jivaroan language spoken by the Achuar and Shiwiar Indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador and Peru.
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E.
Kawaiisu language
Kawaiisu language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Kawaiisu people of southern California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Austronesian language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Sawai people ⓘ |
| geneticClassification |
Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
East Central Maluku languages ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Sawai’
ⓘ
linked to:
Sawai
Weda ⓘ Weda-Sawai ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Patani-related varieties
ⓘ
Sawai proper dialect ⓘ Weda dialect ⓘ |
| hasEthnologueEntry | Ethnologue: Sawai (szw) ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | sawa1247 ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticDescription | documented in descriptive works on East Central Maluku languages ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity | coastal communities of central Halmahera ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | szw ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Central Maluku languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| lexifierInfluence |
Indonesian language
ⓘ
linked to:
Indonesian
Ternate Malay ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Eastern Indonesia linguistic area ⓘ |
| macroArea | Papunesia ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Gane language
ⓘ
Patani language ⓘ Taba language ⓘ |
| phonologicalFeature | contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions) ⓘ |
| region |
Maluku Islands
ⓘ
eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| riskFactor | language shift to Indonesian ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Sawai people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Maluku region ⓘ
linked to:
Maluku Islands
North Maluku ⓘ
linked to:
North Maluku Province
North Maluku Province ⓘ eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| spokenOn | Halmahera ⓘ |
| status | minority language in Indonesia ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
SVO basic word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication within Sawai communities ⓘ |
| usedIn | traditional oral literature of the Sawai 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: Sawai language Description of subject: The Sawai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sawai people of eastern Indonesia, particularly in the Maluku region.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.