Old Dutch
E12374
Old Dutch is the earliest recorded stage of the Dutch language, spoken in the Low Countries roughly between the 6th and 12th centuries and known from a small corpus of early medieval texts and inscriptions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Dutch canonical | 13 |
| Old Dutch language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T103800 — 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: Old Dutch Context triple: [Dutch, historicalStage, Old Dutch]
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A.
Old High German
Old High German is the earliest recorded stage of the German language, spoken in parts of what is now Germany, Austria, and Switzerland roughly between the 6th and 11th centuries.
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B.
Limburgish (Dutch variety)
Limburgish (Dutch variety) is a group of closely related Low Franconian dialects spoken in the southeastern Netherlands, particularly in the province of Limburg, characterized by features that distinguish it from standard Dutch and neighboring German dialects.
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C.
Zeelandic
Zeelandic is a West Flemish–related regional language variety spoken in the Dutch province of Zeeland, known for its distinct phonology and vocabulary compared to standard Dutch.
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D.
Anglo-Frisian dialects
Anglo-Frisian dialects are a group of closely related West Germanic speech varieties historically spoken in parts of England and Frisia that formed the linguistic basis for modern English and Frisian languages.
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E.
Early Modern Dutch
Early Modern Dutch is the transitional form of the Dutch language used roughly between the late Middle Ages and the 18th century, during which its grammar, spelling, and vocabulary became more standardized and closer to modern Dutch.
- 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: Old Dutch Target entity description: Old Dutch is the earliest recorded stage of the Dutch language, spoken in the Low Countries roughly between the 6th and 12th centuries and known from a small corpus of early medieval texts and inscriptions.
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A.
Old High German
Old High German is the earliest recorded stage of the German language, spoken in parts of what is now Germany, Austria, and Switzerland roughly between the 6th and 11th centuries.
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B.
Limburgish (Dutch variety)
Limburgish (Dutch variety) is a group of closely related Low Franconian dialects spoken in the southeastern Netherlands, particularly in the province of Limburg, characterized by features that distinguish it from standard Dutch and neighboring German dialects.
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C.
Zeelandic
Zeelandic is a West Flemish–related regional language variety spoken in the Dutch province of Zeeland, known for its distinct phonology and vocabulary compared to standard Dutch.
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D.
Anglo-Frisian dialects
Anglo-Frisian dialects are a group of closely related West Germanic speech varieties historically spoken in parts of England and Frisia that formed the linguistic basis for modern English and Frisian languages.
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E.
Early Modern Dutch
Early Modern Dutch is the transitional form of the Dutch language used roughly between the late Middle Ages and the 18th century, during which its grammar, spelling, and vocabulary became more standardized and closer to modern Dutch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
West Germanic language
ⓘ
early medieval language ⓘ historical language stage ⓘ |
| endTime | 12th century ⓘ |
| era | Early Middle Ages ⓘ |
| followedBy | Middle Dutch ⓘ |
| follows |
Proto-Germanic
ⓘ
Proto-West Germanic ⓘ
surface form:
Proto-West-Germanic
|
| hasAncestor |
Old Frankish
ⓘ
Old Saxon ⓘ |
| hasCorpusSize | small corpus ⓘ |
| hasDescendant |
Afrikaans
ⓘ
Brabantian dialects ⓘ Limburgish ⓘ Middle Dutch ⓘ Dutch ⓘ
surface form:
Modern Dutch
West Flemish ⓘ Zeelandic ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
V2 word order tendencies
ⓘ
case inflection on nouns ⓘ grammatical gender system ⓘ rich inflectional morphology ⓘ second Germanic consonant shift partially absent ⓘ strong and weak verb distinction ⓘ |
| hasNotableText |
Hebban olla vogala poem
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Leiden Willeram ⓘ Salic law glosses ⓘ Wachtendonck Psalms ⓘ |
| hasTextType |
glosses
ⓘ
legal formulas ⓘ religious texts ⓘ short inscriptions ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | Carolingian minuscule ⓘ |
| ISOStatus | no modern ISO 639-3 code as separate language ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Germanic languages
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
West Germanic languages ⓘ |
| partOf | history of the Dutch language ⓘ |
| regionOfUse |
Flanders
ⓘ
surface form:
Brabant
Flanders ⓘ Friesland ⓘ
surface form:
Frisia
Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta ⓘ
surface form:
Rhine–Meuse delta
|
| spokenIn |
Carolingian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Frankish Empire
Low Countries ⓘ modern Belgium ⓘ modern Netherlands ⓘ parts of northern France ⓘ |
| startTime | 6th century ⓘ |
| studiedInDiscipline |
Dutch philology
ⓘ
Germanic philology ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Dutch
ⓘ
surface form:
Dutch language
|
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
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runic script ⓘ |
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: Old Dutch Description of subject: Old Dutch is the earliest recorded stage of the Dutch language, spoken in the Low Countries roughly between the 6th and 12th centuries and known from a small corpus of early medieval texts and inscriptions.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Old Dutch language
subject surface form:
Wachtendonck Psalms