Uto-Aztecan
E16654
Uto-Aztecan is a large Native American language family of the Western United States and Mexico that includes languages such as Nahuatl, Hopi, and Ute.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Uto-Aztecan languages | 203 |
| Uto-Aztecan language family | 75 |
| Uto-Aztecan canonical | 68 |
| Uto-Aztecan peoples | 11 |
| Aztecan | 1 |
| Classical Nahuatl | 1 |
| Uto-Aztecan cultural area | 1 |
| Uto-Aztecan language area | 1 |
| Uto-Aztecan-speaking peoples | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T138751 — 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: Uto-Aztecan Context triple: [Chemehuevi people, linguisticFamily, Uto-Aztecan]
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A.
Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
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B.
Southern Numic
Southern Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in parts of the southwestern United States.
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C.
Yuman–Cochimí languages
Yuman–Cochimí languages are a group of closely related Indigenous languages historically spoken in the Baja California Peninsula and the lower Colorado River region of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
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D.
Algonquian languages
The Algonquian languages are a large family of Indigenous languages of North America historically spoken from the Atlantic Coast to the Great Plains, including well-known languages such as Ojibwe, Cree, and Wampanoag.
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E.
Eskimo–Aleut languages
Eskimo–Aleut languages are a family of indigenous languages spoken across the Arctic regions of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Siberia, known for their polysynthetic structure and complex morphology.
- 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: Uto-Aztecan Target entity description: Uto-Aztecan is a large Native American language family of the Western United States and Mexico that includes languages such as Nahuatl, Hopi, and Ute.
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A.
Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
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B.
Southern Numic
Southern Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in parts of the southwestern United States.
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C.
Yuman–Cochimí languages
Yuman–Cochimí languages are a group of closely related Indigenous languages historically spoken in the Baja California Peninsula and the lower Colorado River region of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
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D.
Algonquian languages
The Algonquian languages are a large family of Indigenous languages of North America historically spoken from the Atlantic Coast to the Great Plains, including well-known languages such as Ojibwe, Cree, and Wampanoag.
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E.
Eskimo–Aleut languages
Eskimo–Aleut languages are a family of indigenous languages spoken across the Arctic regions of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Siberia, known for their polysynthetic structure and complex morphology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American language family
ⓘ
language family ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Uto-Aztecan
ⓘ
surface form:
Uto-Aztecan language family
Uto-Aztecan ⓘ
surface form:
Uto-Aztecan languages
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| familyColor | Uto-Aztecan self-link ⓘ |
| hasSubfamily |
Aztecan
ⓘ
Corachol ⓘ Northern Uto-Aztecan ⓘ Numic ⓘ Southern Uto-Aztecan ⓘ Takic ⓘ Taracahitic ⓘ Rarámuri ⓘ
surface form:
Tepiman
|
| includesLanguage |
Cahuilla people
ⓘ
surface form:
Cahuilla
Chemehuevi ⓘ Nahuan languages ⓘ
surface form:
Classical Nahuatl
Comanche ⓘ Cora ⓘ Gabrielino-Fernandeño ⓘ Guarijío ⓘ Hopi people ⓘ
surface form:
Hopi
Huichol ⓘ Luiseño people ⓘ
surface form:
Luiseño
Nahuan languages ⓘ
surface form:
Nahuatl
Paiute ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Paiute
Ute people ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Ute
Pima ⓘ
surface form:
O’odham
Paiute ⓘ Pima ⓘ Pochutec ⓘ Serrano ⓘ Shoshoni ⓘ Southern Paiute people ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Paiute
Ute people ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Ute
Tarahumara ⓘ Tepehuán ⓘ Ute people ⓘ
surface form:
Ute
|
| likelyHomeland |
southwestern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American Southwest
Northern Mexico ⓘ |
| majorLanguage |
Hopi people
ⓘ
surface form:
Hopi
Nahuan languages ⓘ
surface form:
Nahuatl
Ute people ⓘ
surface form:
Ute
|
| protoLanguage | Proto-Uto-Aztecan ⓘ |
| region |
Mexico
ⓘ
western United States ⓘ
surface form:
Western United States
|
| usedBy |
indigenous peoples of Mexico
ⓘ
indigenous peoples of the Western United States ⓘ |
| writingSystem | 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: Uto-Aztecan Description of subject: Uto-Aztecan is a large Native American language family of the Western United States and Mexico that includes languages such as Nahuatl, Hopi, and Ute.
Referenced by (362)
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Uto-Aztecan languages
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Uto-Aztecan languages
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Uto-Aztecan languages
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Carobeth Laird
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Uto-Aztecan languages
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Uto-Aztecan language family
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Uto-Aztecan language family
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Uto-Aztecan languages
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Uto-Aztecan languages
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Uto-Aztecan languages
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Uto-Aztecan language family
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Uto-Aztecan language family
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Uto-Aztecan language family
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Uto-Aztecan language family
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Uto-Aztecan language family
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Uto-Aztecan language family
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Uto-Aztecan languages
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Uto-Aztecan languages
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Uto-Aztecan languages
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Uto-Aztecan languages
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Uto-Aztecan languages
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Uto-Aztecan language family
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Uto-Aztecan languages
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Uto-Aztecan language family
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Uto-Aztecan language family
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Uto-Aztecan languages
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Uto-Aztecan language family
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Uto-Aztecan language family
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Uto-Aztecan languages