Numic languages
E107718
The Numic languages are a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family spoken by several Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin and surrounding regions in the western United States.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Numic languages canonical | 21 |
| Mono language (Numic) | 1 |
| Mono language (Western Numic) | 1 |
| Numic branch | 1 |
| Southern Paiute: A Shoshonean Language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T847776 — 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: Numic languages Context triple: [Mono people, languageFamily, Numic languages]
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A.
Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
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B.
Nahuan languages
The Nahuan languages are a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family that includes Nahuatl and related indigenous languages historically spoken by the Aztecs and other peoples of central Mexico.
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C.
Miwok languages
Miwok languages are a group of closely related Native American languages traditionally spoken by the Miwok peoples of central and northern California.
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D.
Chinookan languages
Chinookan languages are a group of Native American languages traditionally spoken along the lower Columbia River in present-day Oregon and Washington.
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E.
Marquesic languages
Marquesic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in the Marquesas Islands and surrounding regions of Polynesia.
- 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: Numic languages Target entity description: The Numic languages are a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family spoken by several Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin and surrounding regions in the western United States.
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A.
Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
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B.
Nahuan languages
The Nahuan languages are a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family that includes Nahuatl and related indigenous languages historically spoken by the Aztecs and other peoples of central Mexico.
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C.
Miwok languages
Miwok languages are a group of closely related Native American languages traditionally spoken by the Miwok peoples of central and northern California.
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D.
Chinookan languages
Chinookan languages are a group of Native American languages traditionally spoken along the lower Columbia River in present-day Oregon and Washington.
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E.
Marquesic languages
Marquesic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in the Marquesas Islands and surrounding regions of Polynesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Numic languages Description of subject: The Numic languages are a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family spoken by several Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin and surrounding regions in the western United States.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Southern Paiute: A Shoshonean Language
subject surface form:
Chemehuevi language
this entity surface form:
Mono language (Western Numic)
this entity surface form:
Mono language (Numic)
subject surface form:
Western Numic languages
subject surface form:
Central Numic languages
subject surface form:
Southern Numic languages
subject surface form:
Wick R. Miller
subject surface form:
Wick R. Miller