Basa Sasak
E179764
Basa Sasak is the Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Sasak people on the island of Lombok in Indonesia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sasak language | 45 |
| Basa Sasak canonical | 2 |
| Bahasa Sasak | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1575671 — 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: Basa Sasak Context triple: [Sasak language group, hasAlternativeName, Basa Sasak]
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A.
Sumbawa language
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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Sundanese
The Sundanese are an indigenous ethnic group of western Java in Indonesia, known for their distinct language, rich musical and dance traditions, and agrarian culture.
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Buginese language
Buginese language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Bugis people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its traditional Lontara script and rich literary heritage.
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Madurese
The Madurese are an Austronesian ethnic group from Madura Island and surrounding regions of Indonesia, known for their distinct language, Islamic traditions, and maritime and cattle-breeding culture.
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E.
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.
- 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: Basa Sasak Target entity description: Basa Sasak is the Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Sasak people on the island of Lombok in Indonesia.
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A.
Sumbawa language
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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B.
Sundanese
The Sundanese are an indigenous ethnic group of western Java in Indonesia, known for their distinct language, rich musical and dance traditions, and agrarian culture.
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C.
Buginese language
Buginese language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Bugis people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its traditional Lontara script and rich literary heritage.
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D.
Madurese
The Madurese are an Austronesian ethnic group from Madura Island and surrounding regions of Indonesia, known for their distinct language, Islamic traditions, and maritime and cattle-breeding culture.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Sasak people ⓘ |
| glottocode | sasa1249 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Sasak language
ⓘ
linked to:
Basa Sasak
|
| hasCulturalAssociation |
Sasak literature
ⓘ
Sasak oral poetry ⓘ Sasak traditional songs ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Kuto-Kute dialect
ⓘ
Meno-Mene dialect ⓘ Mriak-Mriku dialect ⓘ Ngeno-Ngene dialect ⓘ Ngeto-Ngete dialect ⓘ |
| hasInfluencesFrom |
Balinese language
ⓘ
Indonesian language ⓘ
linked to:
Indonesian
Javanese language ⓘ
linked to:
Javanese
|
| hasMorphology | affixation ⓘ |
| hasPhonology | contrastive vowel length ⓘ |
| hasRegisterSystem | speech levels ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | sas ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| lexifierFor | Sasak-based local varieties ⓘ |
| mainIsland | Lombok ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguages |
Balinese
ⓘ
Sumbawa language ⓘ |
| partOf | languages of Indonesia ⓘ |
| region | West Nusa Tenggara ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Sasak people
ⓘ
several million speakers ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Lombok ⓘ |
| status | regional language in Indonesia ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Indonesian local language ⓘ |
| typology | SVO word order ⓘ |
| usedAlongside | Indonesian language ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Arabic script
ⓘ
Javanese script ⓘ 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: Basa Sasak Description of subject: Basa Sasak is the Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Sasak people on the island of Lombok in Indonesia.
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