Akatek
E166217
Akatek is a Mayan language spoken primarily by indigenous communities in the highlands of Guatemala.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Akatek canonical | 4 |
| Acateco | 2 |
| Akatek Maya | 1 |
| Akatek people | 1 |
| Maya Akatek | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1350815 — 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: Akatek Context triple: [Mayan languages, includesLanguage, Akatek]
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A.
Acolhua
The Acolhua were a Nahua-speaking Mesoamerican people of central Mexico, closely allied with the Aztecs and centered in the city-state of Texcoco.
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B.
Tepanec
The Tepanec were a powerful Nahua-speaking people of central Mexico who dominated the Valley of Mexico before being defeated by the Aztec-led Triple Alliance in the 15th century.
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C.
Huastec
Huastec is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people primarily in northeastern Mexico, especially in parts of Veracruz and neighboring states.
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D.
Mexica
The Mexica were a Nahuatl-speaking indigenous people of central Mexico who founded the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and became the dominant power in the Aztec Empire.
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E.
Totonac
Totonac is an indigenous language family of eastern Mexico, traditionally spoken by the Totonac people primarily in the states of Veracruz and Puebla.
- 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: Akatek Target entity description: Akatek is a Mayan language spoken primarily by indigenous communities in the highlands of Guatemala.
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A.
Acolhua
The Acolhua were a Nahua-speaking Mesoamerican people of central Mexico, closely allied with the Aztecs and centered in the city-state of Texcoco.
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B.
Tepanec
The Tepanec were a powerful Nahua-speaking people of central Mexico who dominated the Valley of Mexico before being defeated by the Aztec-led Triple Alliance in the 15th century.
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C.
Huastec
Huastec is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people primarily in northeastern Mexico, especially in parts of Veracruz and neighboring states.
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D.
Mexica
The Mexica were a Nahuatl-speaking indigenous people of central Mexico who founded the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and became the dominant power in the Aztec Empire.
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E.
Totonac
Totonac is an indigenous language family of eastern Mexico, traditionally spoken by the Totonac people primarily in the states of Veracruz and Puebla.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ language of Guatemala ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Jakaltek
ⓘ
Qʼanjobʼal ⓘ |
| countryOfficialStatus | recognized indigenous language of Guatemala ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupUsers |
Akatek
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Maya Akatek
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Akatek
ⓘ
surface form:
Acateco
Akateko ⓘ Kutiʼ ⓘ Qyool ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | acat1239 ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | knj ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
ergative–absolutive alignment
ⓘ
rich verbal inflection ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone
ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Mayan linguistic area ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan language family ⓘ |
| languageStatus |
minority language
ⓘ
vulnerable language ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| primaryUsage | daily communication in indigenous communities ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin | northwestern Guatemala ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Akatek
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Akatek people
|
| spokenInCountry | Guatemala ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion |
Guatemala Highlands
ⓘ
surface form:
Guatemalan highlands
|
| subfamily | Qʼanjobʼalan branch ⓘ |
| usedByPopulation | indigenous Maya communities in Guatemala ⓘ |
| usedInDomain |
local education
ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ 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: Akatek Description of subject: Akatek is a Mayan language spoken primarily by indigenous communities in the highlands of Guatemala.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Maya Akatek
this entity surface form:
Acateco
this entity surface form:
Akatek Maya
this entity surface form:
Acateco