Pirahã
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Pirahã is an indigenous language of the Amazon rainforest, spoken by a small hunter-gatherer group in Brazil and noted for its unusually simple phonology and controversial claims about its lack of recursion and numerals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pirahã canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17040937 — 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: Pirahã Context triple: [Daniel Everett, languageSpoken, Pirahã]
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A.
Juruna
Juruna is an indigenous language group of the Tupian family, traditionally spoken by the Juruna people of the Amazon region in Brazil.
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B.
Piaroa
The Piaroa are an Indigenous people of the northern Amazon and Orinoco basin, known for their egalitarian social organization, shifting cultivation, and rich shamanic cosmology.
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C.
Matsés
The Matsés are an indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest known for their traditional semi-nomadic lifestyle, deep ecological knowledge, and distinctive facial tattoos and piercings.
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D.
Yanomami
The Yanomami are an Indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest, primarily inhabiting remote regions of southern Venezuela and northern Brazil, known for their complex social structures, shamanic traditions, and ongoing struggles to protect their lands from external threats.
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E.
Yuracaré
The Yuracaré are an Indigenous people of central Bolivia, traditionally inhabiting tropical lowland forests and maintaining a distinct language and culture closely tied to riverine and forest environments.
- 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: Pirahã Target entity description: Pirahã is an indigenous language of the Amazon rainforest, spoken by a small hunter-gatherer group in Brazil and noted for its unusually simple phonology and controversial claims about its lack of recursion and numerals.
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A.
Juruna
Juruna is an indigenous language group of the Tupian family, traditionally spoken by the Juruna people of the Amazon region in Brazil.
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B.
Piaroa
The Piaroa are an Indigenous people of the northern Amazon and Orinoco basin, known for their egalitarian social organization, shifting cultivation, and rich shamanic cosmology.
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C.
Matsés
The Matsés are an indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest known for their traditional semi-nomadic lifestyle, deep ecological knowledge, and distinctive facial tattoos and piercings.
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D.
Yanomami
The Yanomami are an Indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest, primarily inhabiting remote regions of southern Venezuela and northern Brazil, known for their complex social structures, shamanic traditions, and ongoing struggles to protect their lands from external threats.
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E.
Yuracaré
The Yuracaré are an Indigenous people of central Bolivia, traditionally inhabiting tropical lowland forests and maintaining a distinct language and culture closely tied to riverine and forest environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.