Cocopa language
E13260
The Cocopa language is an indigenous Native American language spoken by the Cocopah people of the lower Colorado River region in the United States and Mexico.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cocopa language canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T111645 — 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: Cocopa language Context triple: [Yuman language family, hasMemberLanguage, Cocopa language]
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A.
Maricopa language
Maricopa language is a Native American Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Maricopa people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
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B.
Quechan language
The Quechan language is a Native American language spoken by the Quechan (Yuma) people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
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C.
Kichwa
Kichwa is a Quechuan indigenous language variety widely spoken by Andean communities in Ecuador and neighboring regions.
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D.
Aymara
Aymara is an indigenous language spoken primarily by the Aymara people of the central Andes in countries such as Bolivia, Peru, and Chile.
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E.
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.
- 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: Cocopa language Target entity description: The Cocopa language is an indigenous Native American language spoken by the Cocopah people of the lower Colorado River region in the United States and Mexico.
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A.
Maricopa language
Maricopa language is a Native American Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Maricopa people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
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B.
Quechan language
The Quechan language is a Native American language spoken by the Quechan (Yuma) people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
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C.
Kichwa
Kichwa is a Quechuan indigenous language variety widely spoken by Andean communities in Ecuador and neighboring regions.
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D.
Aymara
Aymara is an indigenous language spoken primarily by the Aymara people of the central Andes in countries such as Bolivia, Peru, and Chile.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American language
ⓘ
Yuman language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ spoken language ⓘ |
| associatedRiver | Colorado River ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Maricopa language
ⓘ
Mojave language ⓘ Quechan language ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
Mexico
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalArea |
Lower Colorado River region
ⓘ
surface form:
Lower Colorado River Valley
|
| endangeredStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Cocopah people ⓘ |
| glottocode | coco1260 ⓘ |
| glottologName |
Cocopa people
ⓘ
surface form:
Cocopa
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Cocopa people
ⓘ
surface form:
Cocopa
Cocopah language ⓘ |
| hasCommunity |
Cocopah Indian Tribe of Arizona
ⓘ
Cocopah communities in Baja California ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Mexican Cocopa
ⓘ
U.S. Cocopa ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | coc ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Hokan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Hokan (proposed) language family
Yuman language family ⓘ |
| morphologyType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| nativeName | Kwapa ⓘ |
| region | lower Colorado River region ⓘ |
| revitalizationEffort |
documentation projects by linguists
ⓘ
language classes in Cocopah communities ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Cocopah people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Arizona
ⓘ
Baja California ⓘ California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
California
Sonora ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Yuman–Cochimí languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Cochimí–Yuman language
Upland Yuman ⓘ
surface form:
Delta–California branch of Yuman languages
|
| typology | head-marking language ⓘ |
| usedIn |
ceremonial contexts
ⓘ
oral narratives ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV-dominant ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin 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: Cocopa language Description of subject: The Cocopa language is an indigenous Native American language spoken by the Cocopah people of the lower Colorado River region in the United States and Mexico.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Margaret Langdon