Palikur language
E155584
The Palikur language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Palikur people of northeastern Amazonia, primarily in Brazil and French Guiana.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Palikur language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1357284 — 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: Palikur language Context triple: [Arawakan languages, hasLanguage, Palikur language]
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A.
Hoanya language
The Hoanya language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Hoanya people of western Taiwan and classified among the indigenous Formosan languages.
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B.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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C.
Pulapese language
Pulapese is an Austronesian language of the Chuukic subgroup spoken primarily on Pulap Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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D.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
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E.
Kalanguya language
The Kalanguya language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalanguya people in the northern Luzon highlands of the Philippines.
- 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: Palikur language Target entity description: The Palikur language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Palikur people of northeastern Amazonia, primarily in Brazil and French Guiana.
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A.
Hoanya language
The Hoanya language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Hoanya people of western Taiwan and classified among the indigenous Formosan languages.
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B.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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C.
Pulapese language
Pulapese is an Austronesian language of the Chuukic subgroup spoken primarily on Pulap Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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D.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
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E.
Kalanguya language
The Kalanguya language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalanguya people in the northern Luzon highlands of the Philippines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arawakan language
ⓘ
South American language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Arawak language
ⓘ
Lokono language ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country |
Brazil
ⓘ
France ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Palikur ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Parikwaki
ⓘ
surface form:
Palikur-Parikwaki
Palikur ⓘ
surface form:
Palikúr
Parikwaki ⓘ Parikwaki ⓘ
surface form:
Parikwene
|
| hasDomainOfUse |
community life
ⓘ
home ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResearch |
Bible translation projects
ⓘ
descriptive grammars ⓘ phonological studies ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone (analyzed by some linguists as pitch accent)
ⓘ
nasal vowels ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation |
bilingualism with French in French Guiana
ⓘ
bilingualism with Portuguese in Brazil ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity | indigenous villages near Oiapoque River ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | plu ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Maipurean ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Arawakan languages ⓘ |
| region | northeastern Amazonia ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Palikur people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Amapá
ⓘ
French Guiana coastal area ⓘ Amapá ⓘ
surface form:
Oiapoque region
|
| subfamily |
Arawakan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Arawakan languages
|
| territory | French Guiana ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
French
ⓘ
Portuguese language ⓘ
surface form:
Portuguese
|
| usedIn |
oral storytelling traditions of the Palikur people
ⓘ
traditional rituals of the Palikur people ⓘ |
| 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: Palikur language Description of subject: The Palikur language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Palikur people of northeastern Amazonia, primarily in Brazil and French Guiana.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.