Mazahua
E146014
Mazahua is an indigenous Oto-Manguean language spoken by the Mazahua people of central Mexico, particularly in the State of Mexico and surrounding areas.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mazahua canonical | 4 |
| Hñatho Mazahua | 1 |
| Northern Mazahua | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1232497 — 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: Mazahua Context triple: [Central Mexico, indigenousLanguageRegion, Mazahua]
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A.
Huastec
Huastec is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people primarily in northeastern Mexico, especially in parts of Veracruz and neighboring states.
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B.
Mazatec
Mazatec is an indigenous Oto-Manguean language (or group of closely related languages) spoken primarily by the Mazatec people in the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz.
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C.
Totonac
Totonac is an indigenous language family of eastern Mexico, traditionally spoken by the Totonac people primarily in the states of Veracruz and Puebla.
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D.
Acolhua
The Acolhua were a Nahua-speaking Mesoamerican people of central Mexico, closely allied with the Aztecs and centered in the city-state of Texcoco.
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E.
Zapotec
The Zapotec are an indigenous Mesoamerican people primarily from the Oaxaca region of southern Mexico, known for their ancient civilization, distinctive language family, and rich cultural traditions.
- 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: Mazahua Target entity description: Mazahua is an indigenous Oto-Manguean language spoken by the Mazahua people of central Mexico, particularly in the State of Mexico and surrounding areas.
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A.
Huastec
Huastec is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people primarily in northeastern Mexico, especially in parts of Veracruz and neighboring states.
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B.
Mazatec
Mazatec is an indigenous Oto-Manguean language (or group of closely related languages) spoken primarily by the Mazatec people in the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz.
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C.
Totonac
Totonac is an indigenous language family of eastern Mexico, traditionally spoken by the Totonac people primarily in the states of Veracruz and Puebla.
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D.
Acolhua
The Acolhua were a Nahua-speaking Mesoamerican people of central Mexico, closely allied with the Aztecs and centered in the city-state of Texcoco.
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E.
Zapotec
The Zapotec are an indigenous Mesoamerican people primarily from the Oaxaca region of southern Mexico, known for their ancient civilization, distinctive language family, and rich cultural traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesoamerican language
ⓘ
Oto-Manguean language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Otomanguean stock ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable language ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupAssociated | Mazahua people ⓘ |
| governingBody | Academia de la Lengua Mazahua ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Mazahua
ⓘ
surface form:
Hñatho Mazahua
Jñatrjo ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Mazahua
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Mazahua
Southern Mazahua ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
complex phonology
ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ nasal vowels ⓘ tonal language ⓘ |
| hasGrammarType | head-marking language ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | fusional-agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasOrthographyStandardizedBy | Mexican educational authorities ⓘ |
| hasPhonemeInventorySize | large consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEffort | bilingual intercultural education in Mexico ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO-dominant ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-2 | maz ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-3 | maz ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Oto-Manguean languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Oto-Manguean
|
| legalStatusInMexico | national language of Mexico ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Mesoamerican linguistic area ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Matlatzinca language
ⓘ
Mazatec languages ⓘ Otomi language ⓘ
surface form:
Otomí language
|
| recognizedBy | Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas ⓘ |
| region | central Mexico ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Mazahua people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Mexico
ⓘ
Michoacán ⓘ Querétaro ⓘ State of Mexico ⓘ |
| subfamily | Otomian languages ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
bilingual education programs
ⓘ
linguistic documentation projects ⓘ |
| threatenedBy | language shift to Spanish ⓘ |
| usedAs |
community language
ⓘ
home language ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local radio broadcasting
ⓘ
rituals ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Mazahua Description of subject: Mazahua is an indigenous Oto-Manguean language spoken by the Mazahua people of central Mexico, particularly in the State of Mexico and surrounding areas.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Northern Mazahua
this entity surface form:
Hñatho Mazahua