Sasak language group
E33644
The Sasak language group is a branch of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily by the Sasak people on the island of Lombok in Indonesia.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sasak language | 2 |
| Sasak dialect continuum | 1 |
| Sasak language group canonical | 1 |
| Sasak–Samawa languages | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T200757 — 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: Sasak language group Context triple: [Austronesian languages, hasSubfamily, Sasak language group]
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A.
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.
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B.
Timor–Babar languages
The Timor–Babar languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily on Timor and nearby islands in eastern Indonesia, noted for their complex phonologies and diverse grammatical structures.
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C.
Flores–Lembata languages
The Flores–Lembata languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken on the islands of Flores and Lembata in eastern Indonesia, known for their distinctive phonological and grammatical features within the region.
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D.
Gorontalo–Mongondow languages
The Gorontalo–Mongondow languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
Muna–Buton languages
The Muna–Buton languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in southeastern Sulawesi and nearby islands in 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: Sasak language group Target entity description: The Sasak language group is a branch of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily by the Sasak people on the island of Lombok in Indonesia.
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A.
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.
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B.
Timor–Babar languages
The Timor–Babar languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily on Timor and nearby islands in eastern Indonesia, noted for their complex phonologies and diverse grammatical structures.
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C.
Flores–Lembata languages
The Flores–Lembata languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken on the islands of Flores and Lembata in eastern Indonesia, known for their distinctive phonological and grammatical features within the region.
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D.
Gorontalo–Mongondow languages
The Gorontalo–Mongondow languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
Muna–Buton languages
The Muna–Buton languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in southeastern Sulawesi and nearby islands in Indonesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
language group ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Western Malayo-Polynesian (traditional classification) ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Balinese language
ⓘ
Javanese language ⓘ
linked to:
Javanese
Sumbawa language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupAssociated | Sasak people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Basa Sasak
ⓘ
Sasak ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Kuto-Kute dialect
ⓘ
Meno-Mene dialect ⓘ Mriak-Mriku dialect ⓘ Ngeno-Ngene dialect ⓘ Ngeto-Ngete dialect ⓘ
linked to:
Ngeno-Ngene dialect
|
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (in some dialects)
ⓘ
prenasalized stops (in some dialects) ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticFeature | diglossia with Indonesian ⓘ |
| hasStatus | regional language in Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Arabic script (historically, Pegon)
ⓘ
linked to:
Perso-Arabic script
Javanese script (historically) ⓘ Latin script ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Balinese language
ⓘ
Indonesian language ⓘ Javanese language ⓘ
linked to:
Javanese
|
| ISO639-3 | sas (macrolanguage code for Sasak) ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
Malayo-Polynesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Malayo-Polynesian languages
|
| languageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
|
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC+8 ⓘ |
| partOf |
languages of Indonesia
ⓘ
languages of Lombok ⓘ |
| primaryIsland | Lombok ⓘ |
| region | West Nusa Tenggara ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Sasak people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Lombok ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
SVO word order (tendency)
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology (tendency) ⓘ |
| usedAs | marker of Sasak ethnic identity ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ traditional literature ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local religious practices
ⓘ
traditional Sasak ceremonies ⓘ |
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: Sasak language group Description of subject: The Sasak language group is a branch of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily by the Sasak people on the island of Lombok in Indonesia.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sasak language group
linked to: Sasak language group
linked to: Sasak language group
linked to: Sasak language group