Tektitek
E153798
Tektitek is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tektiteko people in parts of Guatemala and Mexico.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1350818 — 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: Tektitek Context triple: [Mayan languages, includesLanguage, Tektitek]
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A.
Tigak
Tigak is an Austronesian language of the Meso-Melanesian subgroup spoken primarily in parts of Papua New Guinea.
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B.
Tikkana
Tikkana was a prominent 13th-century Telugu poet and scholar best known for translating a major portion of the Mahabharata into Telugu and helping shape classical Telugu literature.
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C.
Talx
Talx is a workforce solutions and employment verification company that operates as a subsidiary of the credit reporting agency Equifax.
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D.
Takanot
Takanot are rabbinic enactments or decrees established to address communal needs and clarify or safeguard Jewish law within Rabbinic Judaism.
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E.
Tianeti
Tianeti is a small town and administrative center in eastern Georgia, situated in the mountainous Mtskheta-Mtianeti region.
- 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: Tektitek Target entity description: Tektitek is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tektiteko people in parts of Guatemala and Mexico.
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A.
Tigak
Tigak is an Austronesian language of the Meso-Melanesian subgroup spoken primarily in parts of Papua New Guinea.
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B.
Tikkana
Tikkana was a prominent 13th-century Telugu poet and scholar best known for translating a major portion of the Mahabharata into Telugu and helping shape classical Telugu literature.
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C.
Talx
Talx is a workforce solutions and employment verification company that operates as a subsidiary of the credit reporting agency Equifax.
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D.
Takanot
Takanot are rabbinic enactments or decrees established to address communal needs and clarify or safeguard Jewish law within Rabbinic Judaism.
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E.
Tianeti
Tianeti is a small town and administrative center in eastern Georgia, situated in the mountainous Mtskheta-Mtianeti region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Tektitek
ⓘ
surface form:
Tectiteco
Tektitek ⓘ
surface form:
Tektiteko
Teqtiteko ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Awakatek
ⓘ
Mam ⓘ |
| country |
Guatemala
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ |
| endangeredStatusReason | language shift to Spanish ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Tektiteko ⓘ |
| glottocode | tekt1235 ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Mayan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Proto-Mayan
|
| hasDomain |
local trade and community life
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ traditional rituals ⓘ |
| hasEndonym | b’a’aj ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
ergative–absolutive alignment
ⓘ
head-marking morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone absence
ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ |
| hasStandardizationEffort | community-based orthography development ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | ttc ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Mayan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Mayan language family
|
| languageFamilyBranch | Western Mayan ⓘ |
| languageStatus | endangered language ⓘ |
| region |
Chiapas
ⓘ
Huehuetenango Department ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Tektiteko people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Guatemala
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ |
| subfamily | Mamean branch ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Mayan linguistics research ⓘ |
| usedFor | everyday communication in Tektiteko communities ⓘ |
| 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: Tektitek Description of subject: Tektitek is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tektiteko people in parts of Guatemala and Mexico.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tektiteko
this entity surface form:
Tectiteco
this entity surface form:
Tektiteko