Teiwa
E816365
Teiwa is a Papuan language spoken on Pantar Island in eastern Indonesia, known for its complex verb morphology and membership in the Alor–Pantar language family.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Teiwa canonical | 12 |
| eastern Teiwa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9698785 — 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: Teiwa Context triple: [Alor–Pantar languages, includeLanguage, Teiwa]
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A.
Tanimaiaki
Tanimaiaki is a settlement on the atoll of Abemama in the island nation of Kiribati in the central Pacific Ocean.
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B.
Kaula
Kaula is a small, uninhabited rocky islet off the coast of Kauai in Hawaii, known for its steep cliffs, seabird colonies, and use as a U.S. Navy bombing range.
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C.
Waharoa
Waharoa is a small rural township in the Waikato region of New Zealand, located near Matamata and serving as a local service and transport hub for the surrounding farming community.
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D.
Tialo
Tialo is an Austronesian language of the Tomini–Tolitoli subgroup spoken in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
Taura
Taura is a small municipality in the German state of Saxony, located within the administrative district of Mittelsachsen.
- 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: Teiwa Target entity description: Teiwa is a Papuan language spoken on Pantar Island in eastern Indonesia, known for its complex verb morphology and membership in the Alor–Pantar language family.
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A.
Tanimaiaki
Tanimaiaki is a settlement on the atoll of Abemama in the island nation of Kiribati in the central Pacific Ocean.
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B.
Kaula
Kaula is a small, uninhabited rocky islet off the coast of Kauai in Hawaii, known for its steep cliffs, seabird colonies, and use as a U.S. Navy bombing range.
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C.
Waharoa
Waharoa is a small rural township in the Waikato region of New Zealand, located near Matamata and serving as a local service and transport hub for the surrounding farming community.
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D.
Tialo
Tialo is an Austronesian language of the Tomini–Tolitoli subgroup spoken in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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E.
Taura
Taura is a small municipality in the German state of Saxony, located within the administrative district of Mittelsachsen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Alor–Pantar language
ⓘ
Papuan language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasApproximateNumberOfSpeakers | 3000 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
basic SOV word order
ⓘ
clause-chaining constructions ⓘ complex verb morphology ⓘ contrastive tone is absent ⓘ lack of grammatical gender ⓘ no case marking on nouns ⓘ numeral classifiers ⓘ object indexing on verbs ⓘ phonemic vowel length ⓘ postpositions ⓘ prefixing verb morphology ⓘ productive reduplication ⓘ pronominal prefixes on verbs ⓘ rich verbal agreement ⓘ serial verb constructions ⓘ small phoneme inventory ⓘ suffixing verb morphology ⓘ switch-reference-like person indexing ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
head-marking language ⓘ |
| hasMajorDialect |
eastern Teiwa
ⓘ
linked to:
Teiwa
western Teiwa ⓘ |
| hasNeighbouringLanguage |
Abui
ⓘ
Blagar ⓘ Deing ⓘ Kaera ⓘ Klamu ⓘ Nedebang ⓘ Sar ⓘ Western Pantar ⓘ |
| hasReferenceGrammarBy | Marian Klamer ⓘ |
| hasReferenceGrammarPublicationYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| hasReferenceGrammarTitle | A Grammar of Teiwa ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Papuan languages of the Alor Archipelago ⓘ |
| isSpokenBy | Teiwa people ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-3 | twe ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Alor–Pantar
ⓘ
Timor–Alor–Pantar ⓘ
linked to:
Timor–Alor–Pantar area
|
| region | eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
East Nusa Tenggara
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ Pantar Island ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Timor–Alor–Pantar language
ⓘ
linked to:
Alor–Pantar languages
|
| 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: Teiwa Description of subject: Teiwa is a Papuan language spoken on Pantar Island in eastern Indonesia, known for its complex verb morphology and membership in the Alor–Pantar language family.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Teiwa