Cornish
E122128
Cornish is a revived Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language historically spoken in Cornwall, England.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cornish canonical | 6 |
| Cornish language | 4 |
| Common Brittonic | 1 |
| Middle Cornish | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1037047 — 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: Cornish Context triple: [Celtic languages, includesLanguage, Cornish]
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A.
Welsh
Welsh is a Celtic language native to Wales, known for its rich literary tradition and status as one of the oldest living languages in Europe.
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B.
Waternish
Waternish is a rural peninsula on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, known for its coastal scenery, crofting communities, and historic sites.
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C.
Manx
Manx is a Celtic language of the Goidelic branch traditionally spoken on the Isle of Man.
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D.
Jèrriais
Jèrriais is a Norman Romance language traditionally spoken on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands.
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E.
Cornwall
Cornwall is a county in the far southwest of England, known for its rugged coastline, Celtic heritage, and popular seaside tourism.
- 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: Cornish Target entity description: Cornish is a revived Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language historically spoken in Cornwall, England.
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A.
Welsh
Welsh is a Celtic language native to Wales, known for its rich literary tradition and status as one of the oldest living languages in Europe.
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B.
Waternish
Waternish is a rural peninsula on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, known for its coastal scenery, crofting communities, and historic sites.
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C.
Manx
Manx is a Celtic language of the Goidelic branch traditionally spoken on the Isle of Man.
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D.
Jèrriais
Jèrriais is a Norman Romance language traditionally spoken on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands.
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E.
Cornwall
Cornwall is a county in the far southwest of England, known for its rugged coastline, Celtic heritage, and popular seaside tourism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Cornish Description of subject: Cornish is a revived Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language historically spoken in Cornwall, England.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Common Brittonic
this entity surface form:
Cornish language
this entity surface form:
Cornish language
this entity surface form:
Middle Cornish
this entity surface form:
Cornish language
this entity surface form:
Cornish language