Suwawa language
E175005
The Suwawa language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Suwawa people of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the Gorontalo–Mongondow subgroup.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Suwawa language canonical | 9 |
| Sahu language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1366742 — 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: Suwawa language Context triple: [Gorontalo–Mongondow languages, hasMember, Suwawa language]
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A.
Kawaiisu language
Kawaiisu language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Kawaiisu people of southern California.
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B.
Sawai language
The Sawai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sawai people of eastern Indonesia, particularly in the Maluku region.
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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.
Chimariko language
The Chimariko language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northwestern California, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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E.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
- 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: Suwawa language Target entity description: The Suwawa language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Suwawa people of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the Gorontalo–Mongondow subgroup.
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A.
Kawaiisu language
Kawaiisu language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Kawaiisu people of southern California.
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B.
Sawai language
The Sawai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Sawai people of eastern Indonesia, particularly in the Maluku region.
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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.
Chimariko language
The Chimariko language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northwestern California, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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E.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Gorontalo language
ⓘ
Mongondow language ⓘ
linked to:
Bolaang Mongondow language
|
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable or endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Suwawa people ⓘ |
| ethnologueReferenceName | Suwawa ⓘ |
| glottologCode | suwa1241 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Suwawa ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Bonda
ⓘ
Bonda’ ⓘ Suawa ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Austronesian language
ⓘ
linked to:
Proto-Austronesian
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ |
| hasEndonym | Suwawa ⓘ |
| hasExonym | Suwawa language ⓘ |
| hasLexicalSimilarityWith |
Bolango language
ⓘ
Gorontalo language ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakers | a few thousand (approximate, low population) ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions) ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO (subject–verb–object) (typologically expected for the subgroup) ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | swu ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
Austronesian comparative linguistics research
ⓘ
Gorontalo–Mongondow subgroup studies ⓘ |
| isVulnerable | true ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageSubfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| languageSubgroup | Gorontalo–Mongondow languages ⓘ |
| region | North Sulawesi ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Suwawa people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Bone Bolango Regency
ⓘ
Gorontalo Province ⓘ
linked to:
Gorontalo
Indonesia ⓘ Sulawesi ⓘ
linked to:
Celebes
northern Sulawesi ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Gorontalo–Mongondow language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ language of Indonesia ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local oral tradition
ⓘ
traditional songs and stories ⓘ |
| 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: Suwawa language Description of subject: The Suwawa language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Suwawa people of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the Gorontalo–Mongondow subgroup.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Suwawa language