Ammonite
E27169
Ammonite is an extinct Northwest Semitic language once spoken by the ancient Ammonite people in the region of modern-day Jordan.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ammonites | 12 |
| Ammonite canonical | 7 |
| Ammonitess | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T212099 — 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: Ammonite Context triple: [Central Semitic languages, includesLanguage, Ammonite]
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A.
Oreortyx
Oreortyx is a small genus of New World quails best known for the mountain quail, a ground-dwelling game bird native to western North America.
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B.
Máximo the Titanosaur
Máximo the Titanosaur is a mounted cast of a giant Patagotitan mayorum dinosaur, notable as one of the largest dinosaur displays in the world and a centerpiece attraction at Chicago’s Field Museum.
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C.
Rhynchortyx
Rhynchortyx is a small genus of New World quails known for inhabiting dense tropical forests in Central and South America.
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D.
The Chambered Nautilus
"The Chambered Nautilus" is a reflective 1858 poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. that uses the spiraled shell of a nautilus as an extended metaphor for spiritual growth and the soul’s continual ascent.
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E.
Usus antiquior
Usus antiquior is the traditional form of the Roman Rite Mass as codified after the Council of Trent and used in the Catholic Church for centuries prior to the liturgical reforms of the 20th century.
- 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: Ammonite Target entity description: Ammonite is an extinct Northwest Semitic language once spoken by the ancient Ammonite people in the region of modern-day Jordan.
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A.
Oreortyx
Oreortyx is a small genus of New World quails best known for the mountain quail, a ground-dwelling game bird native to western North America.
-
B.
Máximo the Titanosaur
Máximo the Titanosaur is a mounted cast of a giant Patagotitan mayorum dinosaur, notable as one of the largest dinosaur displays in the world and a centerpiece attraction at Chicago’s Field Museum.
-
C.
Rhynchortyx
Rhynchortyx is a small genus of New World quails known for inhabiting dense tropical forests in Central and South America.
-
D.
The Chambered Nautilus
"The Chambered Nautilus" is a reflective 1858 poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. that uses the spiraled shell of a nautilus as an extended metaphor for spiritual growth and the soul’s continual ascent.
-
E.
Usus antiquior
Usus antiquior is the traditional form of the Roman Rite Mass as codified after the Council of Trent and used in the Catholic Church for centuries prior to the liturgical reforms of the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canaanite language
ⓘ
Northwest Semitic language ⓘ extinct language ⓘ |
| attestedIn |
inscriptions
ⓘ
ostraca ⓘ seals ⓘ |
| closeTo |
Hebrew
ⓘ
surface form:
Biblical Hebrew
Moabite ⓘ Phoenician civilization ⓘ
surface form:
Phoenician
|
| extinctionReason |
language shift to Arabic
ⓘ
language shift to Aramaic ⓘ |
| glottocode | ammo1241 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Canaanite vowel shift a > o
ⓘ
use of definite article ha- similar to Hebrew ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | qam ⓘ |
| languageCodeStandard |
ISO 639
ⓘ
surface form:
ISO 639-3
|
| languageFamily |
Canaanite
ⓘ
Northwest Semitic ⓘ |
| partOf |
Afroasiatic languages
ⓘ
Semitic languages ⓘ |
| reconstructedFrom |
comparative Semitic linguistics
ⓘ
epigraphic evidence ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Ammonite
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Ammonites
|
| spokenInRegion |
ancient Ammon
ⓘ
modern-day Jordan ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| usedByPolity | Kingdom of Ammon ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod | Iron Age ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Hebrew alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Paleo-Hebrew script
Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
surface form:
Phoenician 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: Ammonite Description of subject: Ammonite is an extinct Northwest Semitic language once spoken by the ancient Ammonite people in the region of modern-day Jordan.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Book of Judges
this entity surface form:
Ammonites
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Ammonites
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Ammonites
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Ammonites
this entity surface form:
Ammonites
this entity surface form:
Ammonites
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Ammonites
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Ammonitess
this entity surface form:
Ammonites
this entity surface form:
Ammonites
this entity surface form:
Ammonites