Tzeltalan branch
E153793
The Tzeltalan branch is a subgroup of Mayan languages spoken primarily in the Chiapas region of southern Mexico, including languages such as Tzeltal and Tzotzil.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tzeltalan branch canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1350791 — 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: Tzeltalan branch Context triple: [Mayan languages, hasSubfamily, Tzeltalan branch]
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A.
Guarijío
Guarijío is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Guarijío people of northern Mexico, particularly in the states of Chihuahua and Sonora.
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B.
Mazahua
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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C.
Matlatzinca
Matlatzinca is an indigenous language of central Mexico spoken by the Matlatzinca people, primarily in the State of Mexico.
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D.
Los Tuxtlas
Los Tuxtlas is a biodiverse volcanic and rainforest region in southern Veracruz, Mexico, known for its lush ecosystems, indigenous communities, and coastal landscapes along the Gulf of Mexico.
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E.
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.
- 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: Tzeltalan branch Target entity description: The Tzeltalan branch is a subgroup of Mayan languages spoken primarily in the Chiapas region of southern Mexico, including languages such as Tzeltal and Tzotzil.
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A.
Guarijío
Guarijío is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Guarijío people of northern Mexico, particularly in the states of Chihuahua and Sonora.
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B.
Mazahua
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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C.
Matlatzinca
Matlatzinca is an indigenous language of central Mexico spoken by the Matlatzinca people, primarily in the State of Mexico.
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D.
Los Tuxtlas
Los Tuxtlas is a biodiverse volcanic and rainforest region in southern Veracruz, Mexico, known for its lush ecosystems, indigenous communities, and coastal landscapes along the Gulf of Mexico.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
branch of Mayan languages
ⓘ
language subgroup ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | North America ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Mayan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Proto-Mayan language
|
| hasEthnolinguisticGroup |
Tzeltal people
ⓘ
Tzotzil people ⓘ |
| hasGeographicDistribution |
central Chiapas
ⓘ
highland Chiapas ⓘ |
| hasLanguageFamily |
Mayan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Mayan language family
|
| hasMember |
Tzeltal Maya
ⓘ
surface form:
Tzeltal language
Tzotzil ⓘ
surface form:
Tzotzil language
|
| hasRegion |
Chiapas
ⓘ
southern Mexico ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup |
Tzeltal Maya
ⓘ
surface form:
Tzeltal language
Tzotzil ⓘ
surface form:
Tzotzil language
|
| hasTypology | agglutinative language type ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | VOS-dominant word order ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
| isIndigenousTo |
Chiapas
ⓘ
southern Mexico ⓘ |
| languageStatus | indigenous languages of the Americas ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| partOf | Mayan languages ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Chiapas
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ southern Mexico ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf |
Mayan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Mayan language family
|
| usedIn |
local education in Chiapas
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ |
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: Tzeltalan branch Description of subject: The Tzeltalan branch is a subgroup of Mayan languages spoken primarily in the Chiapas region of southern Mexico, including languages such as Tzeltal and Tzotzil.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.