Tolomako
E606603
Tolomako is an Oceanic language spoken on Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu, known for its relatively simple phonology and grammar.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tolomako canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6564997 — 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: Tolomako Context triple: [Sakao, isNeighboringLanguageOf, Tolomako]
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A.
Tolo
Tolo is a coastal village and popular tourist resort in the Argolis region of the Peloponnese in Greece, known for its beaches and proximity to historic sites like Nafplio.
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B.
Tahkuna
Tahkuna is a coastal settlement in northern Estonia, located on Hiiumaa Island and known for its proximity to the historic Tahkuna Lighthouse.
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C.
Taimani
Taimani are a sub-tribe of the Aimaq people of western Afghanistan, traditionally semi-nomadic and known for pastoralism and tribal social structures.
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D.
Itaitinga
Itaitinga is a municipality in the state of Ceará in northeastern Brazil, located in the metropolitan region of Fortaleza.
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E.
Pakurumo
Pakurumo is a popular Afrobeat song by Nigerian artist Wizkid, known for its upbeat rhythm and dance-friendly vibe.
- 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: Tolomako Target entity description: Tolomako is an Oceanic language spoken on Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu, known for its relatively simple phonology and grammar.
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A.
Tolo
Tolo is a coastal village and popular tourist resort in the Argolis region of the Peloponnese in Greece, known for its beaches and proximity to historic sites like Nafplio.
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B.
Tahkuna
Tahkuna is a coastal settlement in northern Estonia, located on Hiiumaa Island and known for its proximity to the historic Tahkuna Lighthouse.
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C.
Taimani
Taimani are a sub-tribe of the Aimaq people of western Afghanistan, traditionally semi-nomadic and known for pastoralism and tribal social structures.
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D.
Itaitinga
Itaitinga is a municipality in the state of Ceará in northeastern Brazil, located in the metropolitan region of Fortaleza.
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E.
Pakurumo
Pakurumo is a popular Afrobeat song by Nigerian artist Wizkid, known for its upbeat rhythm and dance-friendly vibe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Oceanic language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| continent | Oceania ⓘ |
| country | Vanuatu ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Big Bay language
ⓘ
Tolomaco ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
basic word order SVO
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contrast between oral vowels ⓘ limited consonant clusters ⓘ little inflectional morphology ⓘ no case marking on nouns ⓘ no grammatical gender ⓘ numeral classifiers ⓘ phonemic vowel length ⓘ possessive constructions with classifiers ⓘ prepositional language ⓘ productive reduplication ⓘ pronominal system with clusivity distinction ⓘ relatively simple grammar ⓘ relatively simple phonology ⓘ relatively transparent morphology ⓘ serial verb constructions ⓘ simple syllable structure ⓘ small consonant inventory ⓘ small phoneme inventory ⓘ stress on penultimate syllable (tendency) ⓘ subject proclitics on verbs ⓘ use of particles for grammatical relations ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | tlm ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian
ⓘ
linked to:
Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian ⓘ
linked to:
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Oceanic ⓘ Southern Oceanic ⓘ
linked to:
Western Oceanic
|
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC+11 ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Merei
ⓘ
Sakao ⓘ Shark Bay languages ⓘ |
| partOf | linguistic area of northern Vanuatu ⓘ |
| region | northern Vanuatu ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Vanuatu ⓘ |
| spokenOn |
Espiritu Santo
ⓘ
Santo Island ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
North-Central Vanuatu language
ⓘ
linked to:
North-Central Vanuatu languages
|
| usedBy | Tolomako 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: Tolomako Description of subject: Tolomako is an Oceanic language spoken on Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu, known for its relatively simple phonology and grammar.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.