Bajau language
E183452
The Bajau language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the seafaring Bajau people of maritime Southeast Asia, especially in parts of Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bajau language canonical | 5 |
| Bajau languages | 2 |
| West Coast Bajau language | 2 |
| Bajau languages of Sulawesi | 1 |
| Sama-Bajau language | 1 |
| Sama–Bajau languages | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1614107 — 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: Bajau language Context triple: [Sama–Bajaw languages subgroup, hasNotableLanguage, Bajau language]
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A.
Banggai language
The Banggai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Banggai people in the Banggai Islands and nearby coastal areas of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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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.
Maranao language
The Maranao language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Maranao people around Lake Lanao in Mindanao, Philippines.
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D.
Bajawa language
The Bajawa language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the central highlands of Flores Island in Indonesia, known for its complex verbal morphology and distinctive phonology.
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E.
Gaddang language
The Gaddang language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Gaddang people of northern Luzon in the Philippines, particularly in the Cagayan Valley 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: Bajau language Target entity description: The Bajau language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the seafaring Bajau people of maritime Southeast Asia, especially in parts of Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
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A.
Banggai language
The Banggai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Banggai people in the Banggai Islands and nearby coastal areas of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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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.
Maranao language
The Maranao language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Maranao people around Lake Lanao in Mindanao, Philippines.
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D.
Bajawa language
The Bajawa language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the central highlands of Flores Island in Indonesia, known for its complex verbal morphology and distinctive phonology.
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E.
Gaddang language
The Gaddang language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Gaddang people of northern Luzon in the Philippines, particularly in the Cagayan Valley region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Bajaw
ⓘ
Sama-Bajau language ⓘ
linked to:
Bajau language
|
| closelyRelatedTo | Sama language ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Bajau people
ⓘ
linked to:
Sama-Bajau peoples
|
| family |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| hasDialect |
Central Sama
ⓘ
Pangutaran Sama ⓘ Sama Mapun ⓘ
linked to:
Jama Mapun
West Coast Bajau ⓘ Yakan ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
focus-marking morphology
ⓘ
rich voice system (Austronesian alignment) ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code |
bdr (West Coast Bajau)
ⓘ
smd (Sama Mapun) ⓘ sse (Balangingi Sama) ⓘ yka (Yakan) ⓘ |
| languageFamilyBranch |
Sama–Bajaw languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Sama–Bajaw languages subgroup
|
| languageFamilyNode | Western Malayo-Polynesian (traditional classification) ⓘ |
| region |
Borneo
ⓘ
Sabah ⓘ Sulawesi ⓘ
linked to:
Celebes
Sulu Archipelago ⓘ |
| spokenBy | seafaring communities ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Malaysia ⓘ Philippines ⓘ maritime Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| status | minority language ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| typology | verb–initial language ⓘ |
| usedIn |
oral tradition of Bajau people
ⓘ
traditional songs and epics of Bajau people ⓘ |
| wordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ |
| 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: Bajau language Description of subject: The Bajau language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the seafaring Bajau people of maritime Southeast Asia, especially in parts of Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bajau language
linked to: Bajau language
linked to: Bajau language
linked to: Bajau language
linked to: Bajau language
linked to: Bajau language
linked to: Bajau language