The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia
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The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia is a seminal linguistic study that documents and analyzes the Kutenai (Ktunaxa) language spoken by Indigenous people in British Columbia.
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| The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16130591 — 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: The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia Context triple: [Mary Haas, notableWork, The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia]
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A.
The Languages of Native North America
The Languages of Native North America is a comprehensive linguistic survey by Marianne Mithun that analyzes the structures, histories, and typological diversity of Indigenous languages across North America.
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B.
Kwakiutl Ethnography
*Kwakiutl Ethnography* is a foundational anthropological work by Franz Boas that provides an extensive, detailed study of the culture, language, and social life of the Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
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C.
Handbook of American Indian Languages
The *Handbook of American Indian Languages* is a foundational early 20th-century linguistic work that systematically documents and analyzes numerous Indigenous languages of the Americas.
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D.
American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America
American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America is a comprehensive scholarly work that surveys, classifies, and analyzes the indigenous languages of the Americas from a historical-comparative perspective.
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E.
Desmond C. Derbyshire’s grammar of Hixkaryana
Desmond C. Derbyshire’s grammar of Hixkaryana is a landmark descriptive linguistic work that provides a comprehensive analysis of the Amazonian Cariban language Hixkaryana, noted especially for its documentation of object–verb–subject word order.
- 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: The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia Target entity description: The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia is a seminal linguistic study that documents and analyzes the Kutenai (Ktunaxa) language spoken by Indigenous people in British Columbia.
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A.
The Languages of Native North America
The Languages of Native North America is a comprehensive linguistic survey by Marianne Mithun that analyzes the structures, histories, and typological diversity of Indigenous languages across North America.
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B.
Kwakiutl Ethnography
*Kwakiutl Ethnography* is a foundational anthropological work by Franz Boas that provides an extensive, detailed study of the culture, language, and social life of the Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
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C.
Handbook of American Indian Languages
The *Handbook of American Indian Languages* is a foundational early 20th-century linguistic work that systematically documents and analyzes numerous Indigenous languages of the Americas.
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D.
American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America
American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America is a comprehensive scholarly work that surveys, classifies, and analyzes the indigenous languages of the Americas from a historical-comparative perspective.
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E.
Desmond C. Derbyshire’s grammar of Hixkaryana
Desmond C. Derbyshire’s grammar of Hixkaryana is a landmark descriptive linguistic work that provides a comprehensive analysis of the Amazonian Cariban language Hixkaryana, noted especially for its documentation of object–verb–subject word order.
- F. None of above. chosen
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