Irish Sign Language
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Irish Sign Language is the primary sign language of the Deaf community in Ireland, historically shaped by Catholic educational traditions and distinct from both British and American sign languages.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Irish Sign Language canonical | 5 |
| Irish Sign | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2378434 — 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: Irish Sign Language Context triple: [Auslan, influencedBy, Irish Sign Language]
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A.
Irish language
The Irish language is a Goidelic Celtic language native to Ireland, known for its rich literary tradition and status as a national and first official language of the Republic of Ireland.
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B.
British Sign Language
British Sign Language is the primary sign language used by Deaf communities in the United Kingdom, with its own distinct grammar, vocabulary, and historical development separate from spoken English.
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C.
Connacht Irish
Connacht Irish is the variety of the Irish language traditionally spoken in the province of Connacht, noted for its distinctive pronunciation and vocabulary.
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D.
Munster Irish
Munster Irish is a traditional southern dialect of the Irish language known for its distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammatical features preserved in counties like Kerry, Cork, and Waterford.
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E.
Jamaican Sign Language
Jamaican Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Jamaica, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Jamaican English and other sign languages.
- 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: Irish Sign Language Target entity description: Irish Sign Language is the primary sign language of the Deaf community in Ireland, historically shaped by Catholic educational traditions and distinct from both British and American sign languages.
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A.
Irish language
The Irish language is a Goidelic Celtic language native to Ireland, known for its rich literary tradition and status as a national and first official language of the Republic of Ireland.
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B.
British Sign Language
British Sign Language is the primary sign language used by Deaf communities in the United Kingdom, with its own distinct grammar, vocabulary, and historical development separate from spoken English.
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C.
Connacht Irish
Connacht Irish is the variety of the Irish language traditionally spoken in the province of Connacht, noted for its distinctive pronunciation and vocabulary.
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D.
Munster Irish
Munster Irish is a traditional southern dialect of the Irish language known for its distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammatical features preserved in counties like Kerry, Cork, and Waterford.
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E.
Jamaican Sign Language
Jamaican Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Jamaica, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Jamaican English and other sign languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural language
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ |
| countryUsedIn | Ireland ⓘ |
| developedIn |
19th century
ⓘ
Ireland ⓘ |
| Glottocode | iris1253 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
ISL
ⓘ
Irish Sign Language ⓘ
surface form:
Irish Sign
|
| hasCommunityOrganization | Irish Deaf Society ⓘ |
| hasCorpusProject | Irish Sign Language Corpus Project ⓘ |
| hasDeafCulture |
Irish Deaf community
ⓘ
surface form:
Irish Deaf culture
|
| hasGenderVariation | historical male and female variants ⓘ |
| hasLanguageCode | ISO 639-3:isg ⓘ |
| hasLanguagePolicy | promotion and support under Irish Sign Language Act 2017 ⓘ |
| hasLexicalSimilarityWith |
British Sign Language (partial overlap)
ⓘ
French Sign Language family ⓘ
surface form:
French Sign Language (limited historical influence)
|
| hasManualAlphabet | yes ⓘ |
| hasOfficialStatusIn |
Republic of Ireland
ⓘ
surface form:
Ireland
|
| hasPhonologicalParameters |
handshape
ⓘ
location ⓘ movement ⓘ non-manual features ⓘ orientation ⓘ |
| hasRegionalVariation |
Belfast variety
ⓘ
Dublin variety ⓘ Limerick variety ⓘ |
| hasTeachingInstitution |
Trinity College Dublin
ⓘ
surface form:
Centre for Deaf Studies, Trinity College Dublin
|
| hasWritingSystem | no standard native written form ⓘ |
| historicallyUsedIn |
Catholic schools for Deaf boys in Ireland
ⓘ
Catholic schools for Deaf girls in Ireland ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Catholic educational traditions in Ireland ⓘ |
| isDistinctFrom |
American Sign Language
ⓘ
British Sign Language ⓘ |
| isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith |
American Sign Language
ⓘ
British Sign Language ⓘ |
| ISO6393Code | isg ⓘ |
| languageFamily | BANZSL family (related branch) ⓘ |
| legalRecognitionInstrument | Irish Sign Language Act 2017 ⓘ |
| legalRecognitionYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| legalStatus | officially recognised language of Ireland ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageOf | Deaf community in Ireland ⓘ |
| usedBy | Irish Deaf community ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Northern Ireland
ⓘ
Republic of Ireland ⓘ |
| usedInDomain |
broadcast media in Ireland
ⓘ
education of Deaf children in Ireland ⓘ interpreting services in Ireland ⓘ |
| usedInReligiousContext | Catholic religious services for Deaf people in Ireland ⓘ |
| usesModality | visual-gestural ⓘ |
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: Irish Sign Language Description of subject: Irish Sign Language is the primary sign language of the Deaf community in Ireland, historically shaped by Catholic educational traditions and distinct from both British and American sign languages.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Auslan
Signature (UK awarding body for BSL qualifications)
→
offersQualificationType
→
Irish Sign Language
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subject surface form:
Signature
this entity surface form:
Irish Sign