Sursilvan
E135340
Sursilvan is a major variety of the Romansh language spoken primarily in the Surselva region of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sursilvan canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1040648 — 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: Sursilvan Context triple: [Romansh language, hasDialect, Sursilvan]
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A.
Rethondes
Rethondes is a commune in northern France best known as the site where the World War I armistice was signed in 1918.
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B.
Anières
Anières is a small lakeside municipality in western Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva near the city of Geneva.
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C.
Alpine Rhine
The Alpine Rhine is the upper stretch of the Rhine River flowing through the Alpine region, forming part of the border between Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Austria.
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D.
Jura
Jura is a remote, sparsely populated island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, known for its rugged mountains, large red deer population, and the Jura whisky distillery.
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E.
Jura
Jura is a predominantly French-speaking canton in northwestern Switzerland known for its Jura Mountains, watchmaking tradition, and strong regional identity.
- 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: Sursilvan Target entity description: Sursilvan is a major variety of the Romansh language spoken primarily in the Surselva region of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
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A.
Rethondes
Rethondes is a commune in northern France best known as the site where the World War I armistice was signed in 1918.
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B.
Anières
Anières is a small lakeside municipality in western Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva near the city of Geneva.
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C.
Alpine Rhine
The Alpine Rhine is the upper stretch of the Rhine River flowing through the Alpine region, forming part of the border between Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Austria.
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D.
Jura
Jura is a remote, sparsely populated island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, known for its rugged mountains, large red deer population, and the Jura whisky distillery.
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E.
Jura
Jura is a predominantly French-speaking canton in northwestern Switzerland known for its Jura Mountains, watchmaking tradition, and strong regional identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Rhaeto-Romance lect
ⓘ
Romansh variety ⓘ language variety ⓘ |
| ancestor |
Latin
ⓘ
Vulgar Latin ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Puter
ⓘ
Surmiran ⓘ Sutsilvan ⓘ Vallader ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Cadi dialect
ⓘ
Foppa dialect ⓘ Gruob dialect ⓘ Lumnezia dialect ⓘ |
| hasEndonym | sursilvan ⓘ |
| hasExonym | Sursilvan self-link ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
definite and indefinite articles
ⓘ
two grammatical genders ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrast between long and short vowels
ⓘ
palatalization of certain consonants ⓘ |
| hasStandardForm | regional written standard of Sursilvan ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature | SVO basic word order ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | sursilv (often grouped under roh for Romansh) ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Rhaeto-Romance languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Rhaeto-Romance
Romance ⓘ |
| lexicalInfluenceFrom |
French
ⓘ
German ⓘ Italian language ⓘ
surface form:
Italian
|
| partOf |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Rhaeto-Romance languages ⓘ Romance languages ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | variety of Romansh in Swiss language policy ⓘ |
| region |
canton of Graubünden
ⓘ
surface form:
Graubünden
Surselva ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Cadi
ⓘ
Foppa ⓘ Gruob ⓘ Lumnezia ⓘ Surselva region ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ Vorderrhein Valley ⓘ
surface form:
Vorderrhein valley
canton of Graubünden ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Romansh language ⓘ |
| usedFor |
education in Surselva
ⓘ
local administration in Surselva ⓘ religious services in Surselva ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local literature of Surselva
ⓘ
regional media in Surselva ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Sursilvan Description of subject: Sursilvan is a major variety of the Romansh language spoken primarily in the Surselva region of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.