Apurinã language
E155581
The Apurinã language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Apurinã people of the Brazilian Amazon, known for its complex verbal morphology and endangered status.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apurinã language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1357280 — 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: Apurinã language Context triple: [Arawakan languages, hasLanguage, Apurinã language]
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A.
Jarawa language
The Jarawa language is an endangered Ongan language spoken by the indigenous Jarawa people of the Andaman Islands in India.
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B.
Ipai language
The Ipai language is a Native American language traditionally spoken by the Kumeyaay (Ipai) people of southern California and northern Baja California.
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C.
Fala language
Fala is a small Ibero-Romance language spoken in a few villages in Spain’s Extremadura region, notable for its close relation to Galician-Portuguese and its strong local identity.
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D.
Puyuma language
The Puyuma language is an endangered Austronesian language spoken by the Puyuma Indigenous people of southeastern Taiwan.
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E.
Uma language
Uma is an Austronesian language of the Celebic subgroup spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
- 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: Apurinã language Target entity description: The Apurinã language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Apurinã people of the Brazilian Amazon, known for its complex verbal morphology and endangered status.
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A.
Jarawa language
The Jarawa language is an endangered Ongan language spoken by the indigenous Jarawa people of the Andaman Islands in India.
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B.
Ipai language
The Ipai language is a Native American language traditionally spoken by the Kumeyaay (Ipai) people of southern California and northern Baja California.
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C.
Fala language
Fala is a small Ibero-Romance language spoken in a few villages in Spain’s Extremadura region, notable for its close relation to Galician-Portuguese and its strong local identity.
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D.
Puyuma language
The Puyuma language is an endangered Austronesian language spoken by the Puyuma Indigenous people of southeastern Taiwan.
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E.
Uma language
Uma is an Austronesian language of the Celebic subgroup spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American indigenous language
ⓘ
Arawakan language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Apurinã do Purus
ⓘ
Apurinã-Apurinã ⓘ Puruborá ⓘ
surface form:
Ipurinã
|
| autonym |
Puruborá
ⓘ
surface form:
Ipurinã
|
| belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup | Apurinã ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus |
definitely endangered
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endangered ⓘ |
| hasAgreementSystem |
number marking on verbs
ⓘ
person marking on verbs ⓘ |
| hasDocumentation |
grammatical descriptions by field linguists
ⓘ
lexical databases and wordlists ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
complex verbal morphology
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polysynthetic morphology ⓘ rich prefixation ⓘ rich suffixation ⓘ verb-based clause structure ⓘ |
| hasMorphosyntacticAlignment | nominative-accusative tendencies with complex verbal agreement ⓘ |
| hasPartOfSpeechSystem |
nominal classification through morphology
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rich verbal system ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive nasalization
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oral and nasal vowels ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEffort |
community-based language teaching
ⓘ
documentation projects by linguists ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | flexible word order ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | apu ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Purus branch of Arawakan ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Arawakan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Arawakan language family
|
| region |
Acre state
ⓘ
Amazonas state ⓘ |
| spokenAlong |
Acre River
ⓘ
Purus River ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Apurinã people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Brazil
ⓘ
Amazon rainforest ⓘ
surface form:
Brazilian Amazon
|
| subfamily | Southern Arawakan languages ⓘ |
| threatenedBy | language shift to Portuguese ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication in Apurinã communities
ⓘ
oral storytelling ⓘ traditional rituals ⓘ |
| 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: Apurinã language Description of subject: The Apurinã language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Apurinã people of the Brazilian Amazon, known for its complex verbal morphology and endangered status.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.