Yucatecan branch
E153792
The Yucatecan branch is a subgroup of Mayan languages spoken primarily in the Yucatán Peninsula and surrounding regions, including languages such as Yucatec Maya, Itza’, and Mopan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yucatecan branch canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1350789 — 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: Yucatecan branch Context triple: [Mayan languages, hasSubfamily, Yucatecan branch]
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A.
Yucatán Peninsula
The Yucatán Peninsula is a large landmass in southeastern Mexico extending into the Caribbean, known for its Maya archaeological sites, cenotes, and tropical coastal ecosystems.
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B.
Cobá
Cobá is an ancient Maya city in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, known for its extensive network of sacbeob (raised stone roads) and towering pyramid structures amid dense jungle.
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C.
Jalisco Block
The Jalisco Block is a tectonic microplate in western Mexico that plays a key role in the region’s complex plate interactions and seismic activity.
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D.
state of Yucatán
The state of Yucatán is a region in southeastern Mexico known for its rich Mayan heritage, colonial architecture, and proximity to major archaeological sites like Chichén Itzá.
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E.
Republic of Yucatán
The Republic of Yucatán was a short-lived 19th-century independent nation in southeastern Mexico, centered on the Yucatán Peninsula, that briefly seceded from Mexico before rejoining it.
- 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: Yucatecan branch Target entity description: The Yucatecan branch is a subgroup of Mayan languages spoken primarily in the Yucatán Peninsula and surrounding regions, including languages such as Yucatec Maya, Itza’, and Mopan.
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A.
Yucatán Peninsula
The Yucatán Peninsula is a large landmass in southeastern Mexico extending into the Caribbean, known for its Maya archaeological sites, cenotes, and tropical coastal ecosystems.
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B.
Cobá
Cobá is an ancient Maya city in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, known for its extensive network of sacbeob (raised stone roads) and towering pyramid structures amid dense jungle.
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C.
Jalisco Block
The Jalisco Block is a tectonic microplate in western Mexico that plays a key role in the region’s complex plate interactions and seismic activity.
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D.
state of Yucatán
The state of Yucatán is a region in southeastern Mexico known for its rich Mayan heritage, colonial architecture, and proximity to major archaeological sites like Chichén Itzá.
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E.
Republic of Yucatán
The Republic of Yucatán was a short-lived 19th-century independent nation in southeastern Mexico, centered on the Yucatán Peninsula, that briefly seceded from Mexico before rejoining it.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
language family branch
ⓘ
subgroup of Mayan languages ⓘ |
| ancestralTo |
modern Itzaʼ
ⓘ
modern Lacandon ⓘ modern Mopan ⓘ modern Yucatec Maya ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Maya civilization ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Chʼolan–Tseltalan languages ⓘ |
| geneticRelationship | closely related to Chʼolan branch ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | northern Maya lowlands ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Itzaʼ language
ⓘ
Lacandon language ⓘ Mopan language ⓘ Yucatec Maya ⓘ Yucatec Maya ⓘ
surface form:
Yucatec language continuum
|
| hasProtoLanguage | Proto-Yucatecan ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup |
Mopan–Itzaʼ subgroup
ⓘ
Yucatec Maya ⓘ
surface form:
Yucatec–Lacandon subgroup
|
| historicalRegion |
Maya lowlands
ⓘ
surface form:
Lowland Maya area
|
| isoClassification | Mayan ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan languages ⓘ |
| linguisticFeature |
aspect-marking auxiliaries
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complex system of status suffixes ⓘ use of relational nouns ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mayan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Mayan language family
|
| reconstructedBy | historical linguistics ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Belize
ⓘ
Campeche state ⓘ
surface form:
Campeche
Guatemala ⓘ Mexico ⓘ Quintana Roo ⓘ Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ northern Guatemala ⓘ western Belize ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Core Mayan ⓘ |
| timeDepth | several millennia of divergence within Mayan family ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ rich aspectual system ⓘ verb–initial basic word order ⓘ |
| usedBy | Maya ethnic groups in Yucatán ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
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: Yucatecan branch Description of subject: The Yucatecan branch is a subgroup of Mayan languages spoken primarily in the Yucatán Peninsula and surrounding regions, including languages such as Yucatec Maya, Itza’, and Mopan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.